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PHP 5 CMS Framework Development - 2nd Edition

By : Martin Brampton
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PHP 5 CMS Framework Development - 2nd Edition

By: Martin Brampton

Overview of this book

If you want an insight into the critical design issues and programming techniques required for a web oriented framework in PHP5, this book will be invaluable. Whether you want to build your own CMS style framework, want to understand how such frameworks are created, or simply want to review advanced PHP5 software development techniques, this book is for you.As a former development team leader on the renowned Mambo open-source content management system, author Martin Brampton offers unique insight and practical guidance into the problem of building an architecture for a web oriented framework or content management system, using the latest versions of popular web scripting language PHP.The scene-setting first chapter describes the evolution of PHP frameworks designed to support web sites by acting as content management systems. It reviews the critical and desirable features of such systems, followed by an overview of the technology and a review of the technical environment.Following chapters look at particular topics, with:• A concise statement of the problem • Discussion of the important design issues and problems faced • Creation of the framework solution At every point, there is an emphasis on effectiveness, efficiency and security – all vital attributes for sound web systems. By and large these are achieved through thoughtful design and careful implementation. Early chapters look at the best ways to handle some fundamental issues such as the automatic loading of code modules and interfaces to database systems. Digging deeper into the problems that are driven by web requirements, following chapters go deeply into session handling, caches, and access control. New for this edition is a chapter discussing the transformation of URLs to turn ugly query strings into readable strings that are believed to be more “search engine friendly” and are certainly more user friendly. This topic is then extended into a review of ways to handle “friendly” URLs without going through query strings, and how to build RESTful interfaces. The final chapter discusses the key issues that affect a wide range of specific content handlers and explores a practical example in detail.
Table of Contents (24 chapters)
PHP 5 CMS Framework Development
Second Edition
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgement
About the Reviewers
Preface
Packaging Extensions
Packaging XML Example

Framework solution


Before embarking on details of the code to achieve a range of gettext services within a PHP5 framework, it is important to say that this code is adapted from original work done by Carlos Souza, and incorporated into Mambo 4.6 and subsequent releases. The code has been released under either GNU/GPL or the MIT License. Now to the details of how to apply gettext to a PHP5 CMS framework.

The gettext implementation

Everything can be achieved regardless of whether gettext is installed on the computer running the CMS framework, and irrespective of whether the PHP gettext library is available. In the original implementation for Mambo, the exception to this was the gathering, by scanning code files, of strings for translation. This could only be done on a system where gettext is installed, and the PHP software made a system call to cause gettext to carry out the necessary scan. However, this requirement can be avoided by processing the code using the PHP token_get_all function. In...