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what to do now?
Posted: Mon Jan 03, 2005 11:53 pm
by shiznatix
maybe the wrong forum? o well
i just finished my news script and im happy with it but now what?
i need more stuff to do...sooo what ideas u guys got for a practical script that i can write for practice. any sugestions?
Posted: Tue Jan 04, 2005 2:30 am
by timvw
after news..
you add possibility to add comments to a newspost..
then add aslo possibility to post new items
-> you have a forum
and then you're ready to do real stuff

Posted: Tue Jan 04, 2005 3:45 pm
by shiznatix
i already set up the comments section with some cool smilies to the news and all that. its basically as powerful as fusion news with a couple less option in the admin section (no upload themes and multi languages) but its perdy good and im proud of it. so whats this "real stuff" that im ready for?
Posted: Tue Jan 04, 2005 4:01 pm
by feyd
what about your own flavouring of a template engine?
Posted: Tue Jan 04, 2005 4:07 pm
by shiznatix
template engine eh? what is that? like a theme thingy?
Posted: Tue Jan 04, 2005 4:29 pm
by feyd
template engines can be used to change the theme of a site easily (depending on the engine), but the real thing I like is complete seperation of content (HTML and whatnot) and logic (the code). Most things become quite modular (again, depending on the engine.)
You may want to look at
Smarty, for an example of one template engine.
Posted: Tue Jan 04, 2005 5:32 pm
by shiznatix
whew now that sounds complex, what is sounds like is...fun

Posted: Fri Jan 07, 2005 8:33 pm
by ianlandsman
What about enhancing your news script to pull in related blog posts from technorati, feedster,etc
Posted: Sat Jan 08, 2005 1:04 am
by John Cartwright
Heres a small challange, when viewing an article try and compare it to others to see if it will match as a related topic from its keywords.
google for example does this
Posted: Sat Jan 08, 2005 6:26 am
by timvw
shiznatix wrote:so whats this "real stuff" that im ready for?
Because you have written code to create, update, delete, list (all data manipulation can be considered as one of those 4 (or a combination of them)) you are ready to whatever that comes up in your mind
If you write a 2nd system now, you will notice that a lot of code has already been written in the 1st system. And offcourse, you are a good programmer (thus lazy) and don't want to write stuff over and over, you decide to move that code to a library/class. Et voila, you've got your first framework
When you start your 3th system you will discover shortcomings/improvements of your framework, and be able to improve it. Or you can have a look at other frameworks and decide to use one of those. As you have already writting your own, you'll be able to understand those other frameworks pretty fast.. And probably discover some nice tricks your own code didn't have...
After all this, you probably want to read some stuff about security and encryption etc... and write your own shopping cart, and integrate support for paypal etc...
Once you've done all this, come back and i'll write a sequal
