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Help with project design

Posted: Tue Dec 20, 2005 6:44 am
by pilau
Heya everyone.
I've decided I would like to work on a dynamic website application, something like PHP-Nuke, only my own.
I would like to have it forum-integrated, to phpBB, of course. And when I mean forum-integrated, I mean that the MySQL table the represents users, for example, would be the same one that is used by the forum. That's for one example.

What I am asking you, dear well-exprienced PHP programmers, is to help me wuth understading what are the steps I need to take while planing, designing and implementing this kind of system.
Except for that I would also like it if you guys could tell me what skills I need to have and what I need to know when creating this system (any programming techniques, or secuity issues, for example)

TIA, Pilau.

Posted: Tue Dec 20, 2005 8:00 am
by Corvin Gröning
All you need is good PHP and basic MySQL knowledge. You need to find out how the user management from phpBB works so that you can use the user table (mysql) and session in your application (this is the easiest way).

Posted: Tue Dec 20, 2005 8:23 am
by JayBird
This may give you a start - viewtopic.php?t=27589

Posted: Tue Dec 20, 2005 2:04 pm
by pilau
Anybody who can give me an idea of where to start?

Posted: Tue Dec 20, 2005 2:11 pm
by JayBird
i just did

Posted: Tue Dec 20, 2005 2:18 pm
by alex.barylski
Pimptastic wrote:i just did
:lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:

Oh man that was funny...

The tylenol is making me giddy...

Giggity, Giggity, Giggity... :)

Posted: Tue Dec 20, 2005 2:34 pm
by pilau
Pimptastic wrote:i just did
Adding lines of code to each page for phpBB integration is fantastic, but I was talking about something that's rather more "where to start" in matters of "what do I need to do" and not "how to do it"

Posted: Tue Dec 20, 2005 4:49 pm
by Chris Corbyn
Start with looking at the database & session structure of phpBB.... that's the best advide I can give you on a starting point. That's how I start with learning my way around how apps work -- though I'm usually looking at OOP which makes far more sense than procedural once you get to that scale. phpBB is notoriously spaghetti-like.

Posted: Wed Dec 21, 2005 5:16 am
by Grim...
pilau wrote:I was talking about something that's rather more "where to start" in matters of "what do I need to do" and not "how to do it"
You've already got a project...

Posted: Wed Dec 21, 2005 5:55 am
by Chris Corbyn
Grim... wrote:
pilau wrote:I was talking about something that's rather more "where to start" in matters of "what do I need to do" and not "how to do it"
You've already got a project...
I think that's dead... it's too huge to even contemplate and too much confusion over how to get rolling :(

Posted: Wed Dec 21, 2005 9:34 am
by pilau
d11wtq wrote:
Grim... wrote:
pilau wrote:I was talking about something that's rather more "where to start" in matters of "what do I need to do" and not "how to do it"
You've already got a project...
I think that's dead... it's too huge to even contemplate and too much confusion over how to get rolling :(
It's not dead it's suspended, since I have a lot of school work, and I need to set up a huge website right now, which is higher in priority than LIFE. But don't worry, I did not forget it.

Posted: Wed Dec 21, 2005 11:11 am
by Grim...
Still can't keep away from that 'quote' button, huh boys?

Posted: Wed Dec 21, 2005 3:24 pm
by LiveFree
Hey,

Ive been looking for a good PHP project... would you mind if I hopped on board and gave you a hand?

Posted: Thu Dec 22, 2005 8:59 am
by pilau
It would be very appreciated, but since the project is suspended.. Could you wait for a few months?