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"Overall this book is a great resource for amateur web programmers or for anyone that wants to crack down and learn how to make a CMS. Kae Verens and the publishers at Packt Publishing did an excellent job at putting CMS Design Using PHP and jQuery together."- Cody Sparks --webhostdesignpost.com
"I recommend the book to those who want to make your own CMS. You will find many clever and cunning ways of coding and learn new things." - Shinichi Okada --okadadesign.no
"I recommend the book to those who want to make your own CMS. You will find many clever and cunning ways of coding and learn new things." - Shinichi Okada --okadadesign.no
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PHP and JQuery are two of the most famous open source tools used for web development. This book will explain how to leverage their power by building a core CMS, which can be used for most projects without needing to be changed, and how to add custom plugins that can then be tailored to the individual project.
This book walks you through the creation of a CMS core, including basic page creation and user management, followed by a plugin architecture, and example plugins. Using the methods described in this book, you will find that you can create distinctly different websites and web projects using one codebase, web design templates, and custom-written plugins for any site-specific differences. Example code and explanation is provided for the entire project.
This book describes how to use PHP, MySQL, and jQuery to build an entire CMS from the ground up, complete with plugin architecture, user management, template-driven site design, and an installer.
Each chapter walks you through the problems of various aspects of CMS design and their solutions, with example code and explanation provided for the chosen solutions.
A plugin architecture is explained and built, which allows you to enhance your own CMS by adding site-specific code that doesn't involve "hacking" the core CMS.
By the end of the book, you will have developed a full CMS, which can be used to create a large variety of different site designs and capabilities.
An in-depth walk-through in building a PHP and jQuery plugin-based CMS project.
This book walks you through the creation of a CMS core, including basic page creation and user management, followed by a plugin architecture, and example plugins. Using the methods described in this book, you will find that you can create distinctly different websites and web projects using one codebase, web design templates, and custom-written plugins for any site-specific differences. Example code and explanation is provided for the entire project.
This book describes how to use PHP, MySQL, and jQuery to build an entire CMS from the ground up, complete with plugin architecture, user management, template-driven site design, and an installer.
Each chapter walks you through the problems of various aspects of CMS design and their solutions, with example code and explanation provided for the chosen solutions.
A plugin architecture is explained and built, which allows you to enhance your own CMS by adding site-specific code that doesn't involve "hacking" the core CMS.
By the end of the book, you will have developed a full CMS, which can be used to create a large variety of different site designs and capabilities.
An in-depth walk-through in building a PHP and jQuery plugin-based CMS project.
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Format:Paperback
Theres no other way I can put it, but an utter disappointment. I got completely stuck on Chapter 3 and couldn't go any further. Even the support code didn't help. It's not the easiest book to use.
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Disappointment
23 Feb 2011
Format:Paperback
A couple of weeks ago I got a request from Packt Publishing to review the book "CMS Design Using PHP and JQuery". I accepted the offer because we're using more and more JQuery in our applications these days and I thought this book would give me a better insight in how to best use JQuery.
After receiving the book I started reading it. But right from the start the author displayed bad practices and mis-use of PHP. Reading the book from front to back the author Kae Verens has confronted me with bad use of variables (like $a, $b, $c), bad use of PHP structures and a complete wrong approach of using JavaScript, where JavaScript should enrich an application instead of incorporating business logic.
The good:
It was nice to see JQuery has a variety of plugins to get things done, most of the plugins discussed in the book were developed by the author himself.
I do like the way Kae Verens breaks up a CMS basic functionality and targets it one by one to describe it's functionality and purpose. Without the code samples, this book is a good guide for anyone who wants to build a home-grown CMS.
The bad:
It's not bad, it's worse!
The ugly:
As already stated in the introduction, this book is a complete contradiction to the things we try to promote. Clear separation of business logic and presentation layers (where JavaScript is another presentation layer) has gone out of the window in this book.
Since the audience for this book are beginner to intermediate PHP developers, I can only curse at the author to be more responsible. Never use meaningless variables like $a, $b, $c!!!
Filtering and Validation of received data was something I missed in the code.
Another thing, if you use SPL functions like DirectoryIterator to traverse a directory on your filesystem, use the SPL methods that come with it (e.g. $dir->isDot() to verify if it's a "." or "..").
At the end of the book the author says this application only works on a *NIX platform. I think this statement reflects how this application is build: poor design.
Conclusion:
After reading this book, I should advice Packt Publishing to put a sticker on it "Warning: explicit content - bad coding practices" as this book is dangerous in the hands of novice PHP developers.
I'm very sorry for the authors and Packt Publishing as the topic of this book is very promising and could be a good read for everyone, but at this point with this type of coding I strongly advice people NOT to buy this book. Maybe a next edition...
After receiving the book I started reading it. But right from the start the author displayed bad practices and mis-use of PHP. Reading the book from front to back the author Kae Verens has confronted me with bad use of variables (like $a, $b, $c), bad use of PHP structures and a complete wrong approach of using JavaScript, where JavaScript should enrich an application instead of incorporating business logic.
The good:
It was nice to see JQuery has a variety of plugins to get things done, most of the plugins discussed in the book were developed by the author himself.
I do like the way Kae Verens breaks up a CMS basic functionality and targets it one by one to describe it's functionality and purpose. Without the code samples, this book is a good guide for anyone who wants to build a home-grown CMS.
The bad:
It's not bad, it's worse!
The ugly:
As already stated in the introduction, this book is a complete contradiction to the things we try to promote. Clear separation of business logic and presentation layers (where JavaScript is another presentation layer) has gone out of the window in this book.
Since the audience for this book are beginner to intermediate PHP developers, I can only curse at the author to be more responsible. Never use meaningless variables like $a, $b, $c!!!
Filtering and Validation of received data was something I missed in the code.
Another thing, if you use SPL functions like DirectoryIterator to traverse a directory on your filesystem, use the SPL methods that come with it (e.g. $dir->isDot() to verify if it's a "." or "..").
At the end of the book the author says this application only works on a *NIX platform. I think this statement reflects how this application is build: poor design.
Conclusion:
After reading this book, I should advice Packt Publishing to put a sticker on it "Warning: explicit content - bad coding practices" as this book is dangerous in the hands of novice PHP developers.
I'm very sorry for the authors and Packt Publishing as the topic of this book is very promising and could be a good read for everyone, but at this point with this type of coding I strongly advice people NOT to buy this book. Maybe a next edition...
Bull eye for me, perfect timing !
1 Aug 2011
Format:Paperback|Amazon Verified Purchase
Simple as it is, as the only book with this title in the whole world, and as the author marks it that even some chapters were ignored and not written, I bought this book because in this period I am working on my own custom cms besides the full time job, so even the table of contents is what I need, it is written not for you to copy and paste but just exactly to use the order and part of the logic so can help you to make your own schema and also keep track for future upgrades.
Thanks to Packt and Kae this is the book I need in this period.
Thanks to Packt and Kae this is the book I need in this period.
0 of 1 people found the following review helpful
The jury is still out
15 Mar 2012
Format:Paperback|Amazon Verified Purchase
I read only a few chapters of this book and it did not interest me at all. You will pick up some new coding ideas, if your new to PHP and MySQL. I found this somewhat hard to follow. Just be fair, I have not read all of this book.
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