son.of.the.morning Posted May 22, 2011 Share Posted May 22, 2011 Hi guys, I have recently been asked by a freinds to turn his web-site in to a CMS web site and i was just wondering if implementing it in php is the write way to go about it. I have never realy build anything like a CMS so if you guys have tips for me that would be spot on. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wildteen88 Posted May 22, 2011 Share Posted May 22, 2011 There is nothing wrong with building a CMS in PHP. There a probably thousands of content management scripts that where made with PHP, the most popular being Joomla and WordPress and few others. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
son.of.the.morning Posted May 22, 2011 Author Share Posted May 22, 2011 Do you know if there is any excisting templtaes i can go of? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wildteen88 Posted May 22, 2011 Share Posted May 22, 2011 Templates as in what? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rifts Posted May 22, 2011 Share Posted May 22, 2011 just use pagelime.com its awesome Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
son.of.the.morning Posted May 22, 2011 Author Share Posted May 22, 2011 It needs to be built in to the site. I mean a editable template that i can manipulate and re-design (fully customize). Nothing overly complex like, just a general system to update textual and visual content via the web-site. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jtreanor Posted May 22, 2011 Share Posted May 22, 2011 When you say template, do you mean an existing PHP CMS which you could modify? As suggested above, pagelime.com looks like it would provide a nice and easy way make your friends website CMS driven. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
son.of.the.morning Posted May 23, 2011 Author Share Posted May 23, 2011 Yes that exactly what i mean. The tool you suggested is good but I want have one build-in to the actually site as it will help me with learning php more and I will probably need to do something similar in the near future. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jtreanor Posted May 23, 2011 Share Posted May 23, 2011 In that case you should be able to build a simple cms with PHP without very much difficulty. It probably will take a fair bit of time to build one from scratch that is actually half decent and secure. I have recently built one one a university project (http://www.phpfreaks.com/forums/index.php?topic=328718.0) so if you have any questions as to how I achieved anything, let me know. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jj-dr Posted May 23, 2011 Share Posted May 23, 2011 Here's a nice, yet simple youtube tutorial that I used for the foundation of my cms website: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u3ry84gg0fw&feature=relmfu. I used this tutorial to build the back-end of the website. And I used this one for the front end. . I just Love the Dynamic Menu he created. By the end of the third video, should have the front end completed. Even though he builds a full cms website, the first one is much easier to follow for the back-end/control panel. and this the website I created based on what I learned from them: http://www.javierbooks.com. It's database driven! Do you know if there is any existing templates i can go of? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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