fdy — Fri, 01 Oct 2004 19:48:41 +0000

Quote: You might be able to get away using one of those.

Plus, you can take a look at how they did it and learn from that too! Books that definately helped just looking on my shelf at a few right now:

PHP/Mysql for Dummies: Janet Valade
Matt Zandstra's Teach Yourself PHP in 24 hrs
Build Your Own DB site/Php Anthology - all from sitepoint.com

Good luck!

Troy1960 — Fri, 01 Oct 2004 12:17:13 +0000

Not knocking learning one bit but if you look at Hotscripts.com there are 510 CMS scripts. You might be able to get away using one of those.

brady.k — Sun, 19 Sep 2004 14:42:32 +0000

Definitely. Learning is always a start

Ok, you're gonna wanna to start with:
Building Db Driven Websites

It will give you an idea of how to build the site, and create the CMS.

A teammate — Sun, 19 Sep 2004 07:32:58 +0000

no. Maybe i can learn if i need?

brady.k — Sat, 18 Sep 2004 21:13:06 +0000

Do you know any other languages? ColdFusion? ASP? Perl/CGI?

A teammate — Sat, 18 Sep 2004 20:02:38 +0000

I only know a little PHP but i can learn more if i need.

brady.k — Sat, 18 Sep 2004 16:32:01 +0000

Good choice!

First things first, do you know any programming languages? PHP would be suited best for your needs.

After that, what you're looking at is a database drive website, preferably using MySQL, with a different table per page. Depending on your needs, you could have as few fields per table as "header" "body".

Each page will have to have a connection to this database, or a cached page, so the information will get displayed.

As far as the CMS, what you need is an "admin" area, which might work as follows:
1st Page: Displays a list box with all the pages to be edited, and a "next" button
2nd Page: After choosing the page to edit, it grabs the data, puts it in the textboxes and areas, for editing. Press "Finish" to submit.

After all, it's really all up to you. I hope I was helpful.