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Easily contented (Part 2)

The new Ledborough Associates website is the latest to feature a content management element, using a form-based update system. A number of pages can be updated using a related text file, and the content of text file read back in to the web page using PHP.
Though largely text-based, the site is lightweight thanks to well [...]

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Sat, February 19 2005 » Web developing » No Comments

Updating, compiling and running services

A server running RedHat 9, Apache 2.4.0 and PHP 4.2 (the basic install of Redhat at the time) needed updating for development using PDFLib which requires minimum versions of PHP. We chose to upgrade PHP to 5.0.3 and then things began to get messy.
PHP 5.0.3 required a minimum version of LibXML2, Apache needed updating and [...]

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Sun, February 13 2005 » LAMP » No Comments

Easily contented

Content management for sites needn’t be complicated. This site uses MySQL as its basis but retains a file copy of the entry as well.
Blog sites will use something similar and I have been testing SixApart’s MovableType locally for development purposes and this is also based on MySQL. The difference being, making something which fits all [...]

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Sun, February 13 2005 » Web developing » No Comments