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Creating a DMOZ-like site using PHP and MySQL

Posted: Sat Sep 21, 2002 9:29 am
by thedunn
I don't know if this is the right forum to ask in, considering it's both PHP and MySQL but I'll ask anyway :)
I want to create a DMOZ (http://dmoz.org) like site that will document abbreviations. I guess it's going to be more like OpenSite (http://open-site.org) because there won't be any links...but anyway. I want to do it in PHP with MySQL. I don't want to have the back-end (editor's interface) in CGI like it is at DMOZ and OpenSite, because CGI is hard and I don't like it. PHP is much easier :) Would I be able to do this? [Hmm wonder if there are programmers from either of those projects lurking around....eh probibly not ;)] Basically, the site needs to do the following:
Public side: Display the stuff from the MySQL database using HTML and PHP
Editor's side: Using PHP and HTML forms, input the information into the MySQL database. I can do the interface and the HTML forms, but what I don't know how to do is tell PHP how to process them in the way I want.
Thanks for your help :-D

Posted: Sat Sep 21, 2002 9:36 am
by hob_goblin
http://www.mysql.com
http://www.php.net

we'd be glad to help you with certain parts of a script/app, but we won't do the whole thing.

what experience do you have? do you want me to point you into the right direction with some things you could look up that'd help you?

Posted: Sat Sep 21, 2002 9:41 am
by thedunn
What I want to do is learn how to do it. I guess I didn't make it as clear. I wondered if anyone had done something that big (if it is big) before and where they started. My experience is limited...but I'm still learning PHP. Yes that would be nice if you could point me in the right direction :)
Thanks.

Posted: Sat Sep 21, 2002 9:42 am
by hob_goblin
Well, it's a kind of big project... well.. huge. you would probably want a team to do this for it to be stable..

anyways

http://www.php.net/mysql
// mysql functions

http://www.php.net/oop
// might want to use classes

other than that, i think it shouldn't use anything special...

Posted: Sat Sep 21, 2002 9:51 am
by thedunn
Ok thank you very much :-D
Off to get a team together... :lol: