Tell me what you think.

Posted: Fri Sep 01, 2006 4:05 pm Post subject:

In many cases, no.

Everytime I make a new site I learn new things, better way to do things. I literally can't allow myself do it the old way if I know of a better way. And I always learn better ways.

In other cases the different nature of the site means I can't reuse it, e.g. a gaming clan enlistment system compared to a e-commerce billing sign-up process. Due to the over-ambitious nature of my projects, they tend to vary greatly.

In the past I've started projects for an Open Source CMS, webforum, hosting billing software, massively multiplayer online browser games, media reviewing sites, MySQL management software.. the list goes on.

I should make my mind up

Posted: Mon Dec 18, 2006 7:19 pm Post subject:

NetHosted Staff Joined: 22 Mar 2004 Posts: 5651

Mike,

That's some project to get underway! Very impressive. Please please please make security a number one priority. The amount of problems caused on servers by content management systems is not small I can assure you. PHP-Nuke and Mambo being by far the worst offenders. Why not also offer some easy route for people to upgrade, even an automatic upgrade feature. People who don't know how to, or just don't upgrade also cause security headaches for us server admin types.

I'd love to see a workable demo and some screenshots on your site - although I realise it's early days in the project so I shouldn't expect too much too soon

I look forward to regular updates on this! As I said earlier, very impressive to be taking on such a project

Andrew

Posted: Tue Dec 19, 2006 12:17 am Post subject:

Security is definitely a priority, and something that I lecture my team-mate about fairly often. Nevertheless, I'm sure a few will get through without me noticing. Fortunately, we're open source, and people can point out possible security flaws before they become a real problem.

I hope to update the site with actual information about the CMS as soon as I can, however at the moment there's no admin panel to speak of; admin is done through phpMyAdmin, so it may be prudent to do that first!

As for updating, I'd love to do automatic updates, but with the amount of varying server environments out there, and things such as cPanel which seem to be somewhat restrictive in what you can do (e.g., I'm fairly certain a standard set-up with cPanel would have some problems if a PHP app tried to download a new set of files from a remote server and then replace certain files with them! We will though, for certain, make it alert the admin quite clearly when there is an update available.

Mike

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