writing a content management system

ringo747 · 6 Nov 2006 at 20:36

hey guys, have to write a pretty advanced content management system for a uni project this year and am looking for any good books on the topic.. i know there are loads of web resources out there but i want a guide that will help from start to finish and will document any issues in cms design.

Anyone got anything that will help?

Cheers
Jonny

ringo747 · 7 Nov 2006 at 00:09

a content managment system isnt exactly 'everything'! Same as there are books on 'building ecommerce sites' i was just looking for something similar only dealing in cms design. If not possible what would the next best thing be?

ringo747 · 7 Nov 2006 at 16:45

cheers for the help guys.

i am building a one off CMS. I have messed about with opensource cms in the past such as joomla, moodle etc. When exploring the hierarchy you find folders like templates, includes, admin, themes. A book which documents this kind of stuff is useful.

I know that I am going to be using php/mysql and i also have to include some ajax and also rss feeds too. I just dont have a clue where I would start with the implementation! It is only at the requirements analysis part now so i guess nearer the time it will become clearer.

I have found a lot of articles on things like setting up datbases, managing users etc but this info is just so high level

Will have a browse around and see what i can come up with anyhow.

thanks again

ringo747 · 8 Nov 2006 at 23:46

markeh said:
How in-depth does this CMS have to be? You could just do a form that submits info to a text file that is displayed on a page which can be edited, that's managing content

lol, i dont think that would get too many marks!

All I know at the minute is that it will have to be pretty advanced... the admin should be able to log in, create new articles, edit articles, export articles to rss feeds, if modifying an article then modify the previously output rss feeds, create new users, change page structures, upload files etc etc

PHP/MySql is going to be the main technology used and I think i can fit in the use of AJAX but doing asynchronous server calls to update page content rather than waiting for the server to throw back complete pages at me.

RSS feeds should be ok to do as PHP is meant to have good XML libraries.

I am not sure about structuring the system though. I have an idea of what each component will be/do but the overall system is still pretty complex in my mind.

Dont know if this is making sense here though!