Micah Gersten wrote:
Depending on the size of the site, you might want to consider a PHP framework to start with. There's usually no point in reinventing the wheel. Someone mentioned CakePHP which utilizes MVC. I'm looking into porting my stuff to the Zend Framework which makes MVC optional, but has a lot of functionality make available. Thank you, Micah Gersten onShore Networks Internal Developer http://www.onshore.com
I too like CakePHP. I have coded in PHP for quite a while and understand OOP and OOP in PHP, however I don't really have any experience building sites or apps from scratch using OOP/MVC.
Cake or a framework makes it much quicker and easier. For those that need total freedom to do things the way they want but need some pre-built functionality to make it quicker, Zend seems to be the choice. I consider Zend to be more of a class library like PEAR only more consistant. For me, I had no habits/best practices or preferred way when I started with OOP/MVC so Cake was great. It has a certain structure and uses certain conventions and code generation which makes it very quick and easy. The main drawback is the docs.
-Shawn
Raido wrote:Hi, There are many sites explaining how to build new site etc but I'd like to hear what You suggest. (about how to plan whole thing and how to write separate parts which can be put together later) I have build many small sites for myself(site to organise class assembly which is like yearly convention..it has user administration etc) but they all are anything else than OOP. But now, I need to help with creating one bigger site which should be OOP. That site should include user management(each user has it's own profile), each user can post job and other adds in different categories. (there will be many categories for example 'work,cars,training,apartments'.) And users profile should show ads posted by himself. Logic itself is simple: 1) unregistered user: a) I go to site, I see categories (work offers, apartment offers, training offers, etc) b) I click on category I'm interested in c) I see ad that I'm interested in d) I click on it c) I see detailed information about it(which company posted it etc) d) at bottom page I see form where I can contact with ad author 2) registered user a) I go to site b) I log in, my profile page opens c) there I can see ads posted by me..also I can see how many times ad is viewed etc d) i click on link 'Post new ad' e) there i choose category and probably Ajax helps to load specific fields(for example if I choose 'Cars' as category, then fields like 'year,transmission,color, etc' will appear. That is short summary what that site should do. It seems quite big for me so I'd be happy to hear any guidelines from people who have built big sites. Creating forms, posting data, user login etc, these things are not problem... problem is: how to build the whole thing aimed to OOP and use with Smarty to keep things organized. I'm not sure but I have idea about what things I should do first: 1) think and write down any function that needs to be done(for example different validations, functions for showing/posting form etc) 2) plan and create database? 3) create database class which handles database connection But what next? Or am I starting all wrong? Big thanks in advance, Raido
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