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Posted by The Natural Philosopher on 11/30/07 17:29
Tim Streater wrote:
> In article <1196439391.24792.0@proxy02.news.clara.net>,
> The Natural Philosopher <a@b.c> wrote:
>
>> Tim Streater wrote:
>>> In article <1196424926.55726.0@iris.uk.clara.net>,
>>> The Natural Philosopher <a@b.c> wrote:
>>>
>>>> WTF is it?
>>>>
>>>> like most of these wonder tools, you find the site, and it tells you
>>>> lots of stuff that you don't need, but the main questions:-
>>>>
>>>> what is it?
>>>> where does it fit on my server? (debian/apache2/php5/mysql) etc.
>>>> why should I want to use it?
>>>>
>>>> go unanswered...;-)
>>>>
>>>> Its Friday. Free for all discussion. Any input on what its good for,
>>>> where its broken, how to integrate it with an existing website etc welcome.
>>>>
>>>> I know so little, I don't even know what questions to ask ;-)
>>> A Content Management System (CMS) allows you to create a website with a
>>> certain style/look to it, without you needing to know anything about
>>> html (or PHP).
>>>
>>> Typically, you use the CMS via a browser, in fact. Suppose you are a
>>> franchising outfit. You might want your franchisees to all have websites
>>> that look very similar; so you provide a CMS to them all. So,
>>> frinstance, the CMS might have a popup where you enter your location. It
>>> will then build a frame of the home page for the target website
>>> incorporating some text like "The WIdget Co Outlet in <location>" with
>>> some graphics. You might then have another popup where you can create
>>> sections for your website, with some content in each that you specify.
>>> As you create each, you can from time to time click on (say) "create
>>> website" and go look at what you've built so far. And so on.
>>>
>>> Ebay has a built-in mini-CMS for when you are selling stuff. You input
>>> all the crap like photos of the object and text about it, and it then
>>> lets you preview how your item-for-sale will look when you actually
>>> click "Sell".
>>
>> Right. So given all th data I want to display is in a prexexistent
>> database, (MYsql) it ain't a deal of good to me really?
>
> Doesn't sound like it.
>
>> I wanted something top do screen design fast, grabbing data via PHP
>> commands where necessary for drop down menus etc etc.
>
> I just spent several days writing a bunch of PHP/mysql driven web pages
> (87 files, in fact) letting me create/edit/delete/search for entities
> that sit in 6 mysql tables. Some of the tables have rows that have
> many-to-many relationships with rows in other tables or within the same
> table. So there were some complexities.
>
> It'd be interesting to know if there are tools to make such pages
> quickly.
I may look at the spouses Dreamweaver..to do the 'pretties' - that does
HTML/javascript but you can add PHP into it.Careful grouping of most of
the PHP into a separate included file so that its at its minimum in the
HTML page might be a way to segregate 'form' from 'function', as it
were ;-)
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