TheWayOfCoding.com

1149 lines of code so far. That’s not including and database file initialization code or other things such as the css for the public site. Completed (“somewhat tested”): Add/edit main page links Add/edit/delete main page basic html content blocks Visual template system and the final visual look of the site. Public index.php looks “done” visually. The main links work and display all basic – content blocks when clicked (ordered by ‘zorder’). It’s just lacking sub links (articles and galleries). To Be Completed: Delete main page links (I haven’t decided if I want it to do a recursive deletion of all content associated with it or not). Add/edit/delete articles (aka. multipage basic html content blocks). Add/edit/delete image galleries. Make the admin pages secure. Testing, testing, and more testing! I’ve been thinking of not bothering with an image gallery aspect. The multi page articles would have similar abilities to a photo gallery. The only difference is that it could not support ...

As I’m programming this database driven website, I’ve come into a few irritating little issues. Today I’ll talk about a few methods to access page content (images) from the back-end. I’ve created a way to create and edit page content with a browser based WYSIWYG editor. The problem is after the first time the data is submitted to the server, all images are set with a path that now only works from the root directory of the website. So when a user tries to edit some page content with images in the WYSIWYG editor they see broken images (aka. “The dreaded Red X”). I thought of a few ways to fix the problem. I’ll also mention which method I actually used in the end. 1. Have the PHP script handle the path conversions. This would mean two functions or so with a few replacements using regular expressions. So when the fetched data is sent to the user all of the html image tags are modified. When or if the user sends the data back they are remodified (excluding any new images the user is...