I am on the same position, half a year ago I tried to wrote the PHP application (sake of learning) using from scratch approaches. Now I want to have a production application, I am bussy to start over and writting/intergrating everthing using a framework. I think for my case is Joomla... So I think its worth using platforms... GR Muhsin Angus Mann wrote: > Hi all. > > I'm working on a PHP project for my own personal business use. It will > handle billing and invoices as well as payments and time management, > bookings, appointments and a few more. I may add things like personal > messaging between the various users and a customer login to check on > the progress of their accounts. > > It is a big project and will probably take a year or so to complete in > my spare time. > > I have made a couple of starts but I have no experience in creating > such large applications and I find I often end up with spaghetti code. > I've tried using session variables to keep track of where and what the > program is doing but there are so many permuations and combinations I > found myself writing endless streams of if's, and's and or's just to > figure out what page to display. > > The code is not the probblem for me...it's the flow and organization > of the code. > > Can anybody point me to a good book or tutorial that lays down the > principles and gives some suggestions for integrating the many > subroutines of a large application? I want to make the code readable > and logical in its flow, and avoid repetition of code segments. > > Much appreciated. > Angus > > > > > > -- Extra details: OSS:Gentoo Linux profile:x86 Hardware:msi geforce 8600GT asus p5k-se location:/home/muhsin language(s):C/C++,VB,VHDL,bash,PHP,SQL,HTML,CSS Typo:40WPM url:http://mambo-tech.net url:http://blog.mambo-tech.net -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php