Comments on: CMS’s - Another reason to master PHP http://codingpad.maryspad.com/2007/07/19/cmss-another-reason-to-master-php/ Programming blog, discussions, tutorials, resources Mon, 08 Sep 2008 09:28:59 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.3 By: » Venturing into flat-file Content Management Systems @The Coding Pad: Programming blog, discussions, tutorials, resources http://codingpad.maryspad.com/2007/07/19/cmss-another-reason-to-master-php/#comment-1043 » Venturing into flat-file Content Management Systems @The Coding Pad: Programming blog, discussions, tutorials, resources Sat, 01 Dec 2007 21:13:01 +0000 http://codingpad.maryspad.com/2007/07/19/cmss-another-reason-to-master-php/#comment-1043 [...] Editing and tweaking is easy - Most of the flat-file CMSs that I have had a chance to glance at are written in PHP, so they are easy to figure out and tweak.  As I mentioned in a previous post, playing with CMSs is a great way to master PHP. [...] […] Editing and tweaking is easy - Most of the flat-file CMSs that I have had a chance to glance at are written in PHP, so they are easy to figure out and tweak.  As I mentioned in a previous post, playing with CMSs is a great way to master PHP. […]

]]> By: mary http://codingpad.maryspad.com/2007/07/19/cmss-another-reason-to-master-php/#comment-30 mary Tue, 31 Jul 2007 18:42:34 +0000 http://codingpad.maryspad.com/2007/07/19/cmss-another-reason-to-master-php/#comment-30 Mike, thanks for your comment. I do agree that CMSs can be a handful, and the mammoth ones like Joomla in particular can be pretty intimidating for a beginner. I find Wordpress to be excellent for modifying and for learning the basics of PHP. My recommendation is to always copy the original code to a txt file on your hard drive before making any changes, that way if you mess up you can go back and recover the original code and see what you did wrong, I would definitely recommend beginners to start with something simple like Wordpress or b2evolution (my two favorite blogging programs) before trying to tackle Joomla and other more complex CMSs. thanks again for your comment. Mike,
thanks for your comment. I do agree that CMSs can be a handful, and the mammoth ones like Joomla in particular can be pretty intimidating for a beginner. I find Wordpress to be excellent for modifying and for learning the basics of PHP. My recommendation is to always copy the original code to a txt file on your hard drive before making any changes, that way if you mess up you can go back and recover the original code and see what you did wrong,

I would definitely recommend beginners to start with something simple like Wordpress or b2evolution (my two favorite blogging programs) before trying to tackle Joomla and other more complex CMSs.

thanks again for your comment.

]]> By: Mike http://codingpad.maryspad.com/2007/07/19/cmss-another-reason-to-master-php/#comment-29 Mike Tue, 31 Jul 2007 08:22:59 +0000 http://codingpad.maryspad.com/2007/07/19/cmss-another-reason-to-master-php/#comment-29 Yea, PHP certainly helps you a lot when we're talking about CMS, especially if you want to do some improvements over your themes and plugins. But, the down part is that most CMS I've tried, except Wordpress of course, have quite a ambiguous syntax. Like Joomla for example. It's kind of hard to edit things there cause it takes you a while to understand what's going on. At least for me it did, but i must admit my PHP knowledge is not that good :d Yea, PHP certainly helps you a lot when we’re talking about CMS, especially if you want to do some improvements over your themes and plugins.

But, the down part is that most CMS I’ve tried, except Wordpress of course, have quite a ambiguous syntax. Like Joomla for example. It’s kind of hard to edit things there cause it takes you a while to understand what’s going on. At least for me it did, but i must admit my PHP knowledge is not that good :d

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