Content Management System

jaddy

Hi all.

I am working on a Content Management System. The application should let the user to fully manage his site using only his browser. He can upload, download, create, edit and do most the file management operations without using any WYSIWUG or any FTP client.

I have one question I hope I can get answer for it...

1- Does it make since to do a file table in my database?
If yes, I can't get how it would store all the files information (size,type,...) at the installation process. This mean that the installation process will take too much time to read all the files in the specified site!! Can any body give me a clue?

Can someone guide me to some articles talking about content management systems.

Thank you 🙂

adrian_quah

Jaddy,

Try out my fav url when i'm stuck besides PHPBuilder...

http://www.hotscripts.com/PHP/

Then click Tips_and_Tutorials
then click Content_Management

Plenty of materials on what ure looking for..just need some patience sifting thru them n extracting to ur needs 🙂

planetsim

Well most of that is basic PHP

Get file Type use explode
Get Filesize.. Opps i pretty much told you. filesize()

Ulujain

Have a look at Postnuke or PHP-Nuke. They're both GPL'ed, so you can basically do what you want with them. There are upload scripts bundled with both of them. They're not the only two, but they seem to be the most popular.

jaddy

Thx all.

Ok, let me explain the problem more deeply...

I am curruntly doing the analysis for a web content management system that would be a package for managing the content in any site without using any other software except the browser.

When somebody want to install this package (in future) in his site, there is 2 possibilities (during the installation process):

1- This application should read all the files inside the site and store the file's information only (not the files them selfs) in a table in the database called "FILES", but the problem is that if the site has too much files, the installation process will take too much time..

2- No need to store the file's information in the database. This will reduce the time for the installation process, but the problem is that you can't get statistical information about the files from the site.

Which option is recommended ???

Thx 🙂