. */ I’ve tried to work it out myself, but I can’t see what I’ve changed. I figured it out, I had to write the database name, now I want to ask you the best way to create a page for the user (admin) to register the username and password through a front-end (admin) page ’cause now, the admin username and password are set in the config code but if the person doesn’t know coding or doesn’t want to do that, how can they sign in? title . $conn = null; Expecting ur response soon. After some digging I discovered that both PHP4 and PHP5 for were enabled, and PHP4 was set to the default. define( “DB_DSN”, “mysql:host=localhost;dbname=yakiniku_cms;charset=utf8” ); But I’m no PDO expert so I’m curious if there is an easier way. A session cookie that holds the data that would be indicative that the user is logged in. My setup: The code is already similar to MVC: index.php and admin.php are controllers (with some model-like code), the Article class is the model, and the templates are the views. I really appreciate it ð. That’s incredible training, Matt. You may find that there are some extra files and folders in the document root where the names start with a ‘.’ and/or have “shell” as part of the name. The code is a great starting point to a great CMS. @mikewkd2: What makes you think it does any validation? list ( $y, $m, $d ) = $closingDate; Create a text file called tables.sql somewhere on your hard drive. Thanks for this wonderful tutorial but i’ve been trying to implement pagination in the archive.php and listarticles.php but i’ve not been able to acheive this….pls can you write a follow up tutorial on pagination or can anyone help…..Thanks, I put the code from the homepage.php that shows the last 5 articles in to a section_footer.php include file. It uses the $results['pageTitle'] variable passed from the main script (index.php or admin.php) to set the title element, and also links to a stylesheet, style.css (we’ll create this in a moment). Bye, best wishes. }, i tried to click the title of the article and view the article but it doesn’t take me anywhere. That said, I’ve been making changes to your code so that it works on my web site – http://www.theArmsPark.eu – I’ve been making changes to the design mostly, but have also been moving the files around a bit in my folders. Is this possible? I was looking for a tutorial to learn to make my own CMS. To generate the hash values to place in config.php, you need to create and run a php file ie. Are they feature-rich enough to let you create projects with ease? Thanks any way. Where and in which .php documents do I need to specify the new property and which lines of code do I need to add. Please try later.” message. (Just everything is so mainstream) [I rather stick out] Thanks a lot! Great script, one of the most useful things I could ever imagine to use outside of a forum source. * TO ‘admin’@’localhost’ IDENTIFIED BY PASSWORD ‘*A906474A0497C57138D4490F4824BF5EB683F6B3’ WITH GRANT OPTION; GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON `cms`. You can achieve what you want with this code. Hi there, again, this is a great tutorial, got my CMS running nicely on my band’s website, http://www.demob-happy.com/. The only problem is: in German we have umlauts like ä ö ü ß and Ãâ Ãâ ÃÅ. First off let me thank you for your wonderful, concise and clear method of teaching. Hi Matt, Thanks a bunch for this cms, it looks awesome. Hi,accomplishments for the job, clearexplanation.I installed the cms easly.Can I add a dynamic menu with Articles? It is NOT for you to use as is. * TO ‘root’@’127.0.0.1’ WITH GRANT OPTION; GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON *. http://php.net/manual/en/pdo.connections.php, “If your application does not catch the exception thrown from the PDO constructor, the default action taken by the zend engine is to terminate the script and display a back trace. Let’s say that I have two photos -> photo1.png and photo2.png browsers then ‘normalise’ the URL by prepending the protocol and host name to the anchor href. Your cms is cool and nice that is why people like it. Then, whenever you need to display the article’s author, just use something like: $results[‘authors’][$article->authorId]->name . Usually, when you call a method, you first create or retrieve an object, then call the method on that object. extension=sqlite.dll A workaround is to exclude notices from your error reporting – add this to the top of your admin.php: I’ll update the code to check that the action and username values are set, to avoid this issue. Check there’s no whitespace at the start or end of your Article.php file either. class file at the top of your script. Putting that aside, is there an easier way or am I on the right track. For smaller sites that don’t need access to the full range of technologies provided by a CMS, the use of a CMS is overkill that often involves a steep learning curve for the client. This is the case in Mozilla 4, and Google Chrome 12.0.742.91 but was fine in all previous versions. i can imagine the comment page would have properties like this, That is just my imagination when adding comment class to the our cms, i think the rest of the code would look like the one of the article class. How to keep the umlauts? And thank you for the tutorial. Make sure you have nothing before your opening ‘ To integrate a different editor you will need to change the name of the textarea in the PHP code that accepts the form submission, “content” in the original code to the name of the tinymce textarea. Will hopefully write the image upload tutorial some time soon (can’t say when!). thanks for you hint, but I surprisingly solved my escaping trouble! }. I will try out your solution as that does make a lot of sense. $conn = new PDO( DB_DSN, DB_USERNAME, DB_PASSWORD ); $publicationDate = explode ( ‘-‘, $params[‘publicationDate’] ); if ( count($publicationDate) == 3 ) { I managed to resolve my previous issue by re-installing php. Apart from plugin integration, the CMS is also known for its social media embedding feature. * @param assoc The form post values For example: Publication date is listed as 2013-03-05 and once saved it will be shown as Mar 4 2013, now if go back and edit the article then hit save it will automatically subtract another day and be displayed as Mar 03 2013. Any advice would be much appreciated. @matt2002 I’m no guru but maybe it has to do with enabling PDO in your php.ini file….you may have done some fussing around with this file already. title varchar(255) NOT NULL, # Full title of the article The next step is to create the HTML templates for both the front-end and admin pages. Dropbox link to a copy of the “Teampage” code “I feel like the Article class isn’t right.”. The username and password I use matches perfectly with the ones I entered on the config.php file. and click on a Article, and look in the header-menu. I am using myPHPadmin through Fatcow web hosting. * Returns all (or a range of) Article objects in the DB 1.Pagination. Many thanks. If you are right about to pick a CMS for your web design project, mind the following steps you’ll have to undertake to make it a success. $closingDate = explode ( ‘-‘, $params[‘closingDate’] ); if ( count($closingDate) == 3 ) { I tried to add Search for Topic or Category by add form at the head. find $conn = new PDO( DB_DSN, DB_USERNAME, DB_PASSWORD ); 2) database has utf8_general_ci collation set To try it out, open a browser and point it to the base URL of your CMS (for example, http://localhost/cms/). Is there a reason for this or a better solution? OK matt. @csturner: No, you want magic_quotes_gpc to be off, otherwise quotes in data sent from your forms will be escaped. I set up the database and fields using the sql file provided and do not have a password for my root user. was a silly question ð, This article was amazing! You can include smaller code snippets inside some normal text by surrounding them with ... tags. Check the ‘public function __construct( $data=array() )’ in the article class and take a look at ‘ preg_replace ( “/[^.,-_'”@?! On the homepage where it displays all of the articles, I have placed a search box (just a textbox within