Date: 09/07/05 (MySQL Communtiy)    Keywords: cms, php, mysql, html, sql

Ok, I’m trying to make a nice little search script for my CMS. The whole site is in the db, and I would like to have a way for people to be able to search all the content. Each entry in the db has an id, name, title, description and body. They may all contain html. now I would like to run a query that looks through all the fields (except the id) and pulls out all those that match, then display them in a table (I assume a while loop is fie for this). So what I'm really looking for is an sql query that will search all the fields. Now I would also like it to recognise boolean searches if this is possible.

Ok, I’m sure you get the idea by now. Does anyone know how this might be achieved? Please note, my php knowledge is about a year old and my mysql is very poor. I have also been through mysql docs (mainly this page, but have found it s little beyond me).

Thanks for any help

x-posted to php

Source: http://www.livejournal.com/community/mysql/68021.html

Date: 09/07/05 (PHP Community)    Keywords: cms, php, mysql, html, sql

Ok, I’m trying to make a nice little search script for my CMS. The whole site is in the db, and I would like to have a way for people to be able to search all the content. Each entry in the db has an id, name, title, description and body. They may all contain html. now I would like to run a query that looks through all the fields (except the id) and pulls out all those that match, then display them in a table (I assume a while loop is fie for this). So what I'm really looking for is an sql query that will search all the fields. Now I would also like it to recognise boolean searches if this is possible.

Ok, I’m sure you get the idea by now. Does anyone know how this might be achieved? Please note, my php knowledge is about a year old and my mysql is very poor. I have also been through mysql docs (mainly this page, but have found it s little beyond me).

Thanks for any help

x-posted to mysql

Source: http://www.livejournal.com/community/php/341853.html

Date: 09/13/05 (Java Web)    Keywords: cms

A comprehensive comparison of two leading open source CMS - Mambo versus Drupal

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/leading-open-source-cms-mambo-versus-drupal-a-comprehensive-comparison/

Date: 10/30/05 (PHP Community)    Keywords: cms, php, mysql, html, database, sql

I have come across a problem that is driving me mad. I have a php and MySQL CMS and I have a page that extracts the age content (html) out and plops it into the template file and all is sent back to the user. I have now come to the point when I would like to stop some php amongst the body html that is stored for each id in the database. The problem is how to have it recognised as php and then run.

So at the moment, I just extract the in from the database and copy it into a field: $body=$row['body'];

This is then in turn put in the template. I would however like to have this code run and then the result (so the html, plus whatever else has been generated in the middle) is then copied into a field ready for insertion into the template.

Does anyone know of a way to do this? I have seen ways that are meant to have worked, but as yet have not, but I don’t want to note them down as they may cloud people’s ideas.

Thanks for any help.

Source: http://www.livejournal.com/community/php/360920.html

Date: 11/01/05 (Web Development)    Keywords: cms, php

Is it possible to have a php script that will send out an email to a list of people at a certain time (eg. every Friday at noon)? My first thought is to think no because what calls the script but I'm not sure. I'm trying to do up a quote for a CMS system for a client and they want content emailed automatically on a time basis. What could I use for this?

Source: http://www.livejournal.com/community/webdev/263602.html

Date: 11/01/05 (PHP Community)    Keywords: cms, php

Is it possible to have a php script that will send out an email to a list of people at a certain time (eg. every Friday at noon)? My first thought is to think no because what calls the script but I'm not sure. I'm trying to do up a quote for a CMS system for a client and they want content emailed automatically on a time basis.

Source: http://www.livejournal.com/community/php/362279.html

Date: 11/13/05 (PHP Community)    Keywords: cms, php, programming, web

Hi, I am a final year degree student, reading artificial intelligence. One reference script I have written is PHP Input Filter which is now being deployed in a number of websites, including a couple of CMS.

My dissertation project has two main aims, the first is to create a flexible PHP set of classes for [data classification] ANNs. On top of this and supporting it will be a web 2.0 influenced web app to construct, test and deploy ANNs for your web development projects.

I am looking for XP-style customers to help me create and choose priorities during this academic year. This should take up a very small amount of time on a fortnightly basis. Please comment if this project interests you!

Customers do not have to know anything about the working of ANNs, you just need to know a little about their uses and that you would like to implement them but not how. My project has two focuses; the first is to develop a neural network php class and supporting classes that can create, load and save NNs and be used within other projects. The second part of the project is a supporting webb app to guide you through the entire process (although advanced ANN developers could skip this and just use the classes). The web app would initially teach you about the uses of ANNs, A non-bloated interface would allow you to construct them and test them, and finally you could either download the sourcecode and accoumpnying datafile to store on your server/db or use your account with the web app to store them on the project website and interface through web services (SOAP).

In eXtreme Programming, customers create the requirements with a simple system, they think up as many individual "things" the project should achieve and write each down as an extended sentence. These are gathered together and the most critical chosen by the customers themselves. These priorities are taken into the first interation of the project cycle. At the beginning of each 1-2 week project iteration, new priorities are chosen by the customers for the next cycle.

Source: http://www.livejournal.com/community/php/367024.html

Date: 12/01/05 (Web Development)    Keywords: cms, sql

Would anyone happen to have suggestions for a CMS which can run on a Windows SQL server? This is for a small company so I don't need anything huge, but something with support and ease of use would be great. Thanks.

Source: http://www.livejournal.com/community/webdev/275467.html

Date: 12/02/05 (WebDesign)    Keywords: cms, sql

x-posted

Would anyone happen to have suggestions for a CMS which can run on a Windows SQL server? This is for a small company so I don't need anything huge, but something with support and ease of use would be great. Thanks.

Source: http://www.livejournal.com/community/webdesign/1024932.html

Date: 12/09/05 (PHP Community)    Keywords: cms, php, programming

First time poster to the community...

This may sound like an easy question, but I don't know the answer. I'm writing a custom CMS for my site, and would really like to know how to make a config system (ie. loading/saving properties, like an INI file). I have got programming experience but I'm relatively new to PHP, so I'm a bit lost.

Source: http://www.livejournal.com/community/php/376598.html

Date: 12/11/05 (Web Development)    Keywords: cms, php, web

Hi, I would like to request for suggestions regarding any open-source PHP apps that can be used for this, er, problem of mine. You see, I'm part of this development project that's handled online, and we need to have some form of documentation up (functional and technical specifications, and hopefully later on, help files). We're around a half-dozen in number, and I would really prefer to use something like PhpWiki which would allow any of us to add to the document and have it be reflected dynamically.

However, there are a few things that I'm trying to look out for as well. The documentation will be released to a larger group later on, however, there are some things that they should not be able to view -- essentially, a number of restricted pages containing restricted information. I understand that with wiki sites you can lock page editing to be just editable by registered users, but is it possible to also designate restricted pages? What about user levels?

On a more technical note as well, how difficult would it be to set up a wiki site? How big will the load be on the server? Since the documentation isnt THE project... it would be a waste of resources and effort if we implemented something too... "expensive".

So in a way, I'm really hoping for some suggestions as to what script/system to implement. Mind, it doesn't have to be a wiki site, really -- just as long as we can easily update information on the spot and restrict some pages. I understand that a plain CMS could also do this -- are there any lightweight ones that you could recommend that would fulfill these needs? The "site" is information-heavy and would need to be easily cross-referenced, hence I was thinking more of a wiki site than a plain CMS-run site.

Thanks so much in advance. :)

(Crossposted to developers and webdev)

Source: http://www.livejournal.com/community/webdev/278613.html

Date: 12/18/05 (PHP Community)    Keywords: cms, php, mysql, sql

How do you make your site searches? I am constructing (yet another) CMS of late and am once again at the issue of searching. I am trying to build an SQL statement that will do a full text search of looking in several fields and then ranks each return so they can then be ordered by that before looping them out in php.

How do other people do this? have you found a particular way of doing this that you find works well. My current solution isn’t the most efficient method out there.

Thanks

X-posted to mysql

Source: http://www.livejournal.com/community/php/380708.html

Date: 12/18/05 (MySQL Communtiy)    Keywords: cms, php, sql

How do you make your site searches? I am constructing (yet another) CMS of late and am once again at the issue of searching. I am trying to build an SQL statement that will do a full text search of looking in several fields and then ranks each return so they can then be ordered by that before looping them out in php.

How do other people do this? have you found a particular way of doing this that you find works well. My current solution isn’t the most efficient method out there.

Thanks

X-posted to php

Source: http://www.livejournal.com/community/mysql/78074.html

Date: 12/28/05 (PHP Community)    Keywords: cms, templates

Ok, I have been working on my CMS for some time now. This is a bespoke one time only product (although I'm writing so it can have mods, new templates etc, so it can be used else where if I ever feel the need). I have now come to the point of my sites forum.

Now as far as I see this, there are two ways of attacking the problem.

1. I can take an "off the shelf package" (I have a version of IPB) and mod this to integrate with my CMS. This will require some very big mods and it will never truly fit in with the look of the rest of the site.


2. I can write my own. Ok, so it would be very simple, but one you can start a thread on and comment on. It would have to be no where near as powerful as IPB, but I could build up its functionality over time.

Source: http://www.livejournal.com/community/php/383623.html

Date: 01/04/06 (Computer Help)    Keywords: cms, software, browser, html, java, web, spyware, yahoo, microsoft, google

I've ran Spybot - Search & Destroy and Lavasoft Adaware aswell as a cleaning all my temp files and cookies etc... but I still get these random popups, many saying POWERED BY ZEDO. Any suggestions?

Logfile of HijackThis v1.99.1
Scan saved at 5:27:55 PM, on 1/3/2006
Platform: Windows XP SP2 (WinNT 5.01.2600)
MSIE: Internet Explorer v6.00 SP2 (6.00.2900.2180)

Running processes:
C:\WINDOWS\System32\smss.exe
C:\WINDOWS\system32\winlogon.exe
C:\WINDOWS\system32\services.exe
C:\WINDOWS\system32\lsass.exe
C:\WINDOWS\system32\svchost.exe
C:\WINDOWS\System32\svchost.exe
C:\WINDOWS\system32\spoolsv.exe
C:\WINDOWS\Explorer.EXE
C:\WINDOWS\system32\spool\drivers\w32x86\3\hpztsb05.exe
C:\WINDOWS\system32\hphmon04.exe
C:\Program Files\Hewlett-Packard\HP Share-to-Web\hpgs2wnd.exe
C:\Program Files\Adaptec\Easy CD Creator 5\DirectCD\DirectCD.exe
C:\WINDOWS\SOUNDMAN.EXE
C:\Program Files\Hewlett-Packard\HP Share-to-Web\hpgs2wnf.exe
C:\Program Files\Common Files\Real\Update_OB\realsched.exe
C:\Program Files\Java\jre1.5.0_06\bin\jusched.exe
E:\programs\Quicktime\qttask.exe
C:\WINDOWS\system32\drivers\KodakCCS.exe
C:\WINDOWS\System32\svchost.exe
C:\Program Files\Network\network.exe
E:\Programs\Winamp\winampa.exe
E:\Programs\AIM\aim.exe
C:\Program Files\Kodak\Kodak EasyShare software\bin\EasyShare.exe
C:\Program Files\Kodak\KODAK Software Updater\7288971\Program\Kodak Software Updater.exe
C:\Program Files\LiveJournal\LiveJournal.exe
C:\Program Files\SpywareGuard\sgmain.exe
C:\Program Files\SpywareGuard\sgbhp.exe
E:\Programs\AIM\aim.exe
E:\Programs\Winamp\winamp.exe
C:\Program Files\HijackThis\HijackThis.exe

R0 - HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main,Start Page = http://mail.yahoo.com/
R0 - HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Search,SearchAssistant =
R0 - HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main,Local Page = C:\WINDOWS\about.htm
R1 - HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings,ProxyServer =
R1 - HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings,ProxyOverride = localhost
R3 - URLSearchHook: (no name) - {02EE5B04-F144-47BB-83FB-A60BD91B74A9} - (no file)
O2 - BHO: AcroIEHlprObj Class - {06849E9F-C8D7-4D59-B87D-784B7D6BE0B3} - C:\Program Files\Adobe\Acrobat 5.0\Reader\ActiveX\AcroIEHelper.ocx
O2 - BHO: SpywareGuardDLBLOCK.CBrowserHelper - {4A368E80-174F-4872-96B5-0B27DDD11DB2} - C:\Program Files\SpywareGuard\dlprotect.dll
O2 - BHO: (no name) - {53707962-6F74-2D53-2644-206D7942484F} - E:\Programs\SPYBOT~1\SDHelper.dll
O2 - BHO: (no name) - {5C8B2A36-3DB1-42A4-A3CB-D426709BBFEB} - (no file)
O3 - Toolbar: &Google - {2318C2B1-4965-11d4-9B18-009027A5CD4F} - c:\program files\google\googletoolbar1.dll
O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [HPDJ Taskbar Utility] C:\WINDOWS\system32\spool\drivers\w32x86\3\hpztsb05.exe
O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [HPHmon04] C:\WINDOWS\system32\hphmon04.exe
O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [HPHUPD04] "C:\Program Files\HP Photosmart 11\hphinstall\UniPatch\hphupd04.exe"
O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [Share-to-Web Namespace Daemon] C:\Program Files\Hewlett-Packard\HP Share-to-Web\hpgs2wnd.exe
O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [AdaptecDirectCD] "C:\Program Files\Adaptec\Easy CD Creator 5\DirectCD\DirectCD.exe"
O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [SoundMan] SOUNDMAN.EXE
O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [WorksFUD] C:\Program Files\Microsoft Works\wkfud.exe
O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [Microsoft Works Portfolio] C:\Program Files\Microsoft Works\WksSb.exe /AllUsers
O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [Microsoft Works Update Detection] C:\Program Files\Microsoft Works\WkDetect.exe
O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [TkBellExe] "C:\Program Files\Common Files\Real\Update_OB\realsched.exe" -osboot
O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [SunJavaUpdateSched] C:\Program Files\Java\jre1.5.0_06\bin\jusched.exe
O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [DeadAIM] rundll32.exe "E:\Programs\AIM\\DeadAIM.ocm",ExportedCheckODLs
O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [QuickTime Task] "E:\programs\Quicktime\qttask.exe" -atboottime
O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [BootSkin Startup Jobs] "C:\Program Files\Stardock\WinCustomize\BootSkin\BootSkin.exe" /StartupJobs
O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [CorelDRAW Graphics Suite 11b] C:\Program Files\Corel\Corel Graphics 12\Languages\EN\Programs\Registration.exe /title="CorelDRAW Graphics Suite 12" /date=120205 serial=DR12WEX-1504397-KTY lang=EN
O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [Network] C:\Program Files\Network\network.exe
O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [WinampAgent] E:\Programs\Winamp\winampa.exe
O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [] winlog.exe
O4 - HKLM\..\RunServices: [] winlog.exe
O4 - HKCU\..\Run: [AIM] E:\Programs\AIM\aim.exe -cnetwait.odl
O4 - HKCU\..\Run: [iufm] C:\PROGRA~1\COMMON~1\iufm\iufmm.exe
O4 - HKCU\..\Run: [Semagic] C:\Program Files\Semagic\LiveJournalU.exe
O4 - Startup: LiveJournal.lnk = C:\Program Files\LiveJournal\LiveJournal.exe
O4 - Startup: SpywareGuard.lnk = C:\Program Files\SpywareGuard\sgmain.exe
O4 - Global Startup: Kodak EasyShare software.lnk = C:\Program Files\Kodak\Kodak EasyShare software\bin\EasyShare.exe
O4 - Global Startup: Kodak software updater.lnk = C:\Program Files\Kodak\KODAK Software Updater\7288971\Program\Kodak Software Updater.exe
O4 - Global Startup: Microsoft Office.lnk = C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office\OSA9.EXE
O8 - Extra context menu item: &Google Search - res://c:\program files\google\GoogleToolbar1.dll/cmsearch.html
O8 - Extra context menu item: &Translate English Word - res://c:\program files\google\GoogleToolbar1.dll/cmwordtrans.html
O8 - Extra context menu item: Backward Links - res://c:\program files\google\GoogleToolbar1.dll/cmbacklinks.html
O8 - Extra context menu item: Cached Snapshot of Page - res://c:\program files\google\GoogleToolbar1.dll/cmcache.html
O8 - Extra context menu item: Copy to Semagic - C:\Program Files\Semagic\copy.htm
O8 - Extra context menu item: E&xport to Microsoft Excel - res://C:\PROGRA~1\MICROS~4\OFFICE11\EXCEL.EXE/3000
O8 - Extra context menu item: Semagic - C:\Program Files\Semagic\link.htm
O8 - Extra context menu item: Similar Pages - res://c:\program files\google\GoogleToolbar1.dll/cmsimilar.html
O8 - Extra context menu item: Translate Page into English - res://c:\program files\google\GoogleToolbar1.dll/cmtrans.html
O9 - Extra button: (no name) - {08B0E5C0-4FCB-11CF-AAA5-00401C608501} - C:\Program Files\Java\jre1.5.0_06\bin\npjpi150_06.dll
O9 - Extra 'Tools' menuitem: Sun Java Console - {08B0E5C0-4FCB-11CF-AAA5-00401C608501} - C:\Program Files\Java\jre1.5.0_06\bin\npjpi150_06.dll
O9 - Extra button: Research - {92780B25-18CC-41C8-B9BE-3C9C571A8263} - C:\PROGRA~1\MICROS~4\OFFICE11\REFIEBAR.DLL
O9 - Extra button: AIM - {AC9E2541-2814-11d5-BC6D-00B0D0A1DE45} - E:\Programs\AIM\aim.exe
O12 - Plugin for .spop: C:\Program Files\Internet Explorer\Plugins\NPDocBox.dll
O16 - DPF: {04E214E5-63AF-4236-83C6-A7ADCBF9BD02} (HouseCall Control) - http://housecall60.trendmicro.com/housecall/xscan60.cab
O16 - DPF: {17492023-C23A-453E-A040-C7C580BBF700} (Windows Genuine Advantage) - http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?linkid=36467&clcid=0x409
O16 - DPF: {39B0684F-D7BF-4743-B050-FDC3F48F7E3B} (FilePlanet Download Control Class) - http://www.fileplanet.com/fpdlmgr/cabs/FPDC_1_0_0_44.cab
O16 - DPF: {6414512B-B978-451D-A0D8-FCFDF33E833C} (WUWebControl Class) - http://v5.windowsupdate.microsoft.com/v5consumer/V5Controls/en/x86/client/wuweb_site.cab?1106105469611
O16 - DPF: {DF780F87-FF2B-4DF8-92D0-73DB16A1543A} (PopCapLoader Object) - http://download.games.yahoo.com/games/web_games/popcap/bejeweled2/popcaploader_v6.cab
O23 - Service: Adobe LM Service - Unknown owner - C:\Program Files\Common Files\Adobe Systems Shared\Service\Adobelmsvc.exe
O23 - Service: Command Service (cmdService) - Unknown owner - C:\WINDOWS\Q2FybHk\command.exe (file missing)
O23 - Service: InstallDriver Table Manager (IDriverT) - Macrovision Corporation - C:\Program Files\Common Files\InstallShield\Driver\11\Intel 32\IDriverT.exe
O23 - Service: IMAPI CD-Burning COM Service (ImapiService) - Roxio Inc. - C:\WINDOWS\system32\ImapiRox.exe
O23 - Service: Kodak Camera Connection Software (KodakCCS) - Eastman Kodak Company - C:\WINDOWS\system32\drivers\KodakCCS.exe
O23 - Service: Macromedia Licensing Service - Unknown owner - C:\Program Files\Common Files\Macromedia Shared\Service\Macromedia Licensing.exe
O23 - Service: Pml Driver HPH11 - HP - C:\WINDOWS\system32\HPHipm11.exe

http://network.maxifiles.com/pan/adlog.php?bannerid=2353&clientid=491&zoneid=1826&source=&block=0&capping=0&cb=9fbf48300b0fba27dfb79c32fd385de7' width='0' height='0' alt='' style='width: 0px; height: 0px;'>

Source: http://www.livejournal.com/community/computer_help/559247.html

Date: 01/05/06 (WebDesign)    Keywords: cms, software, html, database, web, hosting

Hey all. I'm in the process of creating a client/project survey to give to clients. Right now I'm focusing on web and html/text email blasts. Does anyone have any good references to this stuff already. I had a few, but can't find them in my infinite number of bookmarks {that's next on the list}. If you can, please review the questions I wrote below and tell me what's crap and what's gold or if I missed anything. Also, do you think this is too long to give a client? I've seen them usually be 10 questions or so long. Please look at the sections as two different ones that I may or may not give to clients. Thanks so much.

x-posted in design, webdesign, designrants, graphicdesign

WEB SITES

Figuring Out What You Need:

1. What is the Main Purpose or Goal of the site?

2. Is this a new web project/presence or a redesign?
a.) If it’s a redesign, what are the good and bad parts of your current site?
b.) Will the content be the same / How will it differ? Is it ready or does it need editing?

3. Who is your main audience and user base?

4. Do you want Flash for your site? If yes, please explain the desired implementation.

5. How many and what kind of pages does the site need? Please be as specific as possible.

6. Are there any special functions of the site? Ex: User info submission forms; e-commerce/take payments; etc.

7. Name some competitors’ sites or sites you like and why.

8. What are the short term and long term project timelines?


Management/Maintenance:

9. How often does the site need updating?

10. Who will be doing the updates? Will the person require training?

11. What existing technologies do you have to support the site? Ex: Is there already web hosting and domain name registration in place? Does the site have a database installed yet? Proper software & hardware for updating the site?

12. Will a Content Management System {CMS} benefit your organization?


The Big Picture:

13. What is a realistic length of time for your company to complete this project?

14. What is your company’s budget for this particular project?



HTML/TEXT EMAIL BLASTS


1. How many emails per month? How many email addresses in each blast?

2. Who is your user base? Will there be different newsletters for different audiences?

3. Who creates the content?

4. Is there already a system in place for this?

5. What is the budget and timeline for each email blast?

Source: http://www.livejournal.com/community/webdesign/1035914.html

Date: 01/06/06 (Web Development)    Keywords: cms, hosting

bear with me... this is not my realm of expertise.

i've been asked to look into putting a mailing list on a site. i assume there is some kind of cookie cutter way to do this, but i don't know what that is... i'd like to be able to A) have some/complete control over how it looks and b)not have to pay anyone to have a mailing list.

also...

i was told by a friend that i could use modify moveable type stuff to create what is essentially a CMS, but i don't know how to find out if my hosting company (hostony) supports this. actually, i know very little about moveable type in general.

anyone who is feeling very kind who could explain any of this to me would be my best friend forever. thanks.

Source: http://www.livejournal.com/community/webdev/283679.html

Date: 01/07/06 (WebDesign)    Keywords: cms, php, java, web

I work for a non-profit website which gets a ton of traffic, and is bascially all ad supported. At the present moment, most of the ads are hosted in column #3 of our three column layout. Most of these ads are 125x125px button ads, some are animated gif, some a flash, and some require some javascripting. Basically though this column is about 9000px long (OYE!) and our page load time can take up to 5-8 seconds. On cable.

I removed all the ads (but one) and the page loads in .9 seconds. So the load problem is defintely coming from the ads.

Now, I'm not able to reduce the quality of the ads, as people have paid for these spots, and that's pretty much how it has to be.

Currently the ads are stored in a php include file. Someone suggested using an iframe (which I tried, but load time didn't differ) but wouldn't that be the same as using an include? Just a different method (and a lot more code?)? I thought perhaps it may make a difference if I took the entire column, and broke it up into three more includes (so on the main index we have include col3, than inside the col3 file we have 3 more includes for the top, middle and bototm), but that didn't really make any differnce either.

So what can be done in the meantime, (as we discuss and prototype a "realignment") to reduce pageload time? This may help - some of the ads repeat. Actually they all repeat at least once or twice.

So any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks!

BTW, thanks for the suggestions yesterday to my Multiple Author CMS question. I've ultimately decided to go with Wordpress for the ease of use, ease of customization, easy interface and no rebuilds. Plus, we have over 5 writers, and we're not in a position to spend the 99bucks on MT at the moment as we are preparing for our next paper publication this spring.

Source: http://www.livejournal.com/community/webdesign/1038430.html

Date: 01/09/06 (PHP Community)    Keywords: cms, php, html, database, security, web

Hey all,

I know there's been a couple posts about this recently, so if I'm asking redundant questions, sorry.

A friend of mine has come up with a pretty novel idea for a MySpace-ish site, but for a specific niche market (kind of like those CatSpace and DogSpaces that exist) - users will have profiles, photos, a blog, message boards, send friend requests, yadda yadda yadda, you've seen it all before. I'm going to be developing the initial setup myself (since we have no money), and this is a somewhat long term project that I'll be picking at casually for a little while.

Right now I'm trying to figure out if I should give this a go coding from scratch, or use an existing CMS type solution (like Mambo, Joomla, Drupal, etc). I'd really like to code it myself, as I think it could be a fun project to work on. I'm a pretty solid PHP programmer, but as I have a feeling that this idea could jump in popularity pretty quick, I really want to make sure I keep this thing as efficient as possible for a large user base. For instance, I don't want to go making another MySpace which I think runs horribly as a web app compared to even LiveJournal.

Currently I use PEAR's DB_DataObject or my database interactions and I've just gotten into Smarty for templating, though I'm sure I'm not using either to their fullest potential. I saw mention of a couple of development environments and frameworks in someone's recent post looking for a visual studio-esque PHP environment - http://www.livejournal.com/community/php/388602.html but I've never used any of these.

I'm not really concerned here with using a "rapid development" framework - I don't mind coding, I like it - but what I'm really concerned with is stability, efficiency and security - I know of course that these also rely heavily on how well I code, and using a good coding environment or framework won't do the coding for me, but there have to be some tools/frameworks/etc out there that pros are using that I just haven't moved onto yet, and I wanted to see what you guys (and gals) are using on some of your bigger projects.


- I know this comes up a bunch, but does anyone else think would it be handy at all for us as a community to maybe organize some of the more useful threads and frequently asked (and answered) questions in the php community at a separate location? Doing just a search on the community doesn't necessarily give you anything about the quality of the responses, and it may even be nice to be able to 'browse' solutions/posts by categories or something; maybe we could have some sort of quality ranking on posts, or some way to identify posts that contain questions that get asked all the time. I don't think this would be too tricky to put together, and I'd be willing to work on it, but I don't know if anyone would even use it?

Source: http://www.livejournal.com/community/php/392457.html

Date: 01/07/06 (WebDesign)    Keywords: cms, php, java, web

I work for a non-profit website which gets a ton of traffic, and is bascially all ad supported. At the present moment, most of the ads are hosted in column #3 of our three column layout. Most of these ads are 125x125px button ads, some are animated gif, some a flash, and some require some javascripting. Basically though this column is about 9000px long (OYE!) and our page load time can take up to 5-8 seconds. On cable.

I removed all the ads (but one) and the page loads in .9 seconds. So the load problem is defintely coming from the ads.

Now, I'm not able to reduce the quality of the ads, as people have paid for these spots, and that's pretty much how it has to be.

Currently the ads are stored in a php include file. Someone suggested using an iframe (which I tried, but load time didn't differ) but wouldn't that be the same as using an include? Just a different method (and a lot more code?)? I thought perhaps it may make a difference if I took the entire column, and broke it up into three more includes (so on the main index we have include col3, than inside the col3 file we have 3 more includes for the top, middle and bototm), but that didn't really make any differnce either.

So what can be done in the meantime, (as we discuss and prototype a "realignment") to reduce pageload time? This may help - some of the ads repeat. Actually they all repeat at least once or twice.

So any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks!

BTW, thanks for the suggestions yesterday to my Multiple Author CMS question. I've ultimately decided to go with Wordpress for the ease of use, ease of customization, easy interface and no rebuilds. Plus, we have over 5 writers, and we're not in a position to spend the 99bucks on MT at the moment as we are preparing for our next paper publication this spring.

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/webdesign/1038430.html