I've come up with a solution to my problem although I am not terribly satisfied with it. I kept the new field in the module registration table because it made life easier when getting the functions to talk to the modules (and safer since I no longer have to rely on include_once() and require_once()…

It seems that I misunderstood exactly how PHP's include_once() and require_once() worked. I assumed that no matter how many times they were called they would still execute the global code. It seems very obvious to me now that that cant possibly be the case not just because it doesnt make any sense …

I'd like to make my CMS as flexible as possible when it comes to the layout of the page but at the same time I have very specific types of content that must be included. Originally I had planned to have the XHTML written into the same page that breaks up the URL and retrieves the correct data but t…

I havent had the time nor the motivation to work on my CMS in recent months. Today I had some time to spare so I picked it up again.

One of the parts that was holding me back before was the creation of an installation script that would get information from the user about the address of the database,…

I haven't done much coding mostly because coding for school really kills my motivation to code for myself. I did play around with a class that would encapsulate the process of paging data but I believe it uses LIMIT incorrectly (it uses it assuming the offset is reference from the rows returned fro…

I haven't made any progress on the CMS since the last entry mainly because a new semester has started, I'm looking for housing, and other such distractions.

The only thing that could be argued as being progress is that I've upgraded one of my computers to Windows 2000 and am going to install Apache …

I've made a few changes to the SessionManager class. First, I renamed IsSet() to Exists() since after reviewing PHP's documentation I realized that isset() isn't a function but a language feature and thus a reserved word. I've also added a function Destroy() to unset session variables.

I've added th…

I've been working on the administration module during the past few days and while working on it I've been really wishing that my host would upgrade to PHP 5. It would be very nice if I could give QueryResult and Database destructors so that I didn't have to remember to call QueryResult::FreeResult(…

Thus far I've only done a small bit of work on the CMS. I've written the database class as well as the function to clean up the GET and POST variables. I've also dropped the requirement to also use the session variables since to update them I would have to use the $_SESSION superglobal - which I do…

Adaptability

Modules
Each module will be registered with the CMS under one or more names. More than one name is allowed to point to the same module so that the module may behave slightly differently for each name while performing the same basic function. For example, a single blog module might suppor…