Tutorial : Creating a Content Management System using PHP/MySQL

Its been 2 weeks since visionmasterdesigns.com was started and I am very glad with the response. Lot of people want to explore PHP/MySQL more and I think I`ll give in to that . So Today lets design a Content Management System using PHP/MySQL.

Index

• Page 1 : Introduction
• Page 2 : Database Work
• Page 3 : functions.php
• Page 4 : articlefunctions.php
• Page 5 : insertarticle.php
• Page 6 : editarticle.php
• Page 7 : article.php – Our start File
• Demo – Here
• Script – Here

Don`t get scared seeing the number of pages. This system has 5 files as listed above. Our CMS features add,edit and delete article records.

Introduction to CMS

CMS is an application through which you can add content without the need of uploading any files. You can create,edit,delete articles directly online. These articles are stored in the backend i.e database, in our case MySQL. Everytime user requests for a particular article, the php script retrieves the article and displays it to the user.

I`ll try to keep it as simple as possible.