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cnerd2025 · 07-26-2005, 06:06 PM

Sure, whatever your questions, I can answer.

I'm one of the (many) webmasters frustrated with CMS's, so I figured I should start creating a new form of one, one that stores all functions and data in a database with a very very basic core of PHP. I use PHP to call the functions from the database and the functions call the data. HTML is generated, just like all other CMSs. Initially, I simply wish to create an interface between the database and the human user.
One of my many frustrations with traditional content management systems is that they limit the ability to store data. If I wanted to create a roster of people, for example, I'd have to create a table, and that just gets too sloppy. The database becomes a behemoth and is hence unservicable. So with my new paradigm in content management i hope to have an `abstract` table with things like datatypes. In another I hope to have functions that PHP will invoke. And the third will be data itself. I'm not sure how to link the data tables with each other. I know JOIN and UNION are used, among other keywords.
As far as the UI, it will be like a normal website. I plan to have navigation, pages, links, etc. The pages will be generated from the functions stored in the database. This will be accomplished using the "eval()" function in PHP. Any help would be appreciated. If you have AIM, feel free to IM me @ CNerd2025. For the sake of the community, I'd like to keep specific code examples on this board. Thank You!

--Drew E.

07-26-2005, 06:06 PM	#3 (permalink)
cnerd2025 Junior Member Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: East Coast, USA Posts: 3	Re: Sure, whatever your questions, I can answer. I'm one of the (many) webmasters frustrated with CMS's, so I figured I should start creating a new form of one, one that stores all functions and data in a database with a very very basic core of PHP. I use PHP to call the functions from the database and the functions call the data. HTML is generated, just like all other CMSs. Initially, I simply wish to create an interface between the database and the human user. One of my many frustrations with traditional content management systems is that they limit the ability to store data. If I wanted to create a roster of people, for example, I'd have to create a table, and that just gets too sloppy. The database becomes a behemoth and is hence unservicable. So with my new paradigm in content management i hope to have an `abstract` table with things like datatypes. In another I hope to have functions that PHP will invoke. And the third will be data itself. I'm not sure how to link the data tables with each other. I know JOIN and UNION are used, among other keywords. As far as the UI, it will be like a normal website. I plan to have navigation, pages, links, etc. The pages will be generated from the functions stored in the database. This will be accomplished using the "eval()" function in PHP. Any help would be appreciated. If you have AIM, feel free to IM me @ CNerd2025. For the sake of the community, I'd like to keep specific code examples on this board. Thank You! --Drew E.