PHP Advanced and Object-Oriented Programming: Visual Quickpro Guide, Third Edition

9. Example—CMS with OOP

In This Chapter

Identifying the Goals

Creating the Database

Making the Template

Writing a Utilities File

Creating the Error View File

Defining the Classes

Creating the Home Page

Viewing a Page

Using HTML_QuickForm2

Logging Out

Adding Pages

Review and Pursue

New in this edition of the book is this example chapter. A popular feature of my other PHP books, an example chapter walks through the entire implementation of a real-world site...well, as “entire” as is possible within the confines of a single chapter, that is.

For the example, I’ll create a content management system (CMS), with users who can create and view pages of content. In keeping with the material taught over the previous five chapters, the example will use ...