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Posted by Andrei Georgescu
Andrei Georgescu
6,256 Points

PHP Blog

Hello! Any chances to see a PHP blog project? How would it be best to develop: using plain PHP or a framework? Thanks

4 Answers

sven molhuijsen
sven molhuijsen
7,091 Points
sven molhuijsen
sven molhuijsen
7,091 Points

ignore me

Mike Baxter
Mike Baxter
4,442 Points
Mike Baxter
Mike Baxter
4,442 Points

I think generally you'd want to use some existing out-of-the-box service for blogs. You could also do it with MySQL and PHP, but it would be a fair amount of work, and the Treehouse tutorials don't give nearly enough information to make this unless you're super-clever. ("PHP and MySQL" by Larry Ullman has a few chapters on making a blog and user accounts). Using pure PHP would be really weird, because you'd have to write directly to the file-system, but I suppose it's doable, just like how you can save user-uploaded images directly to the file-system. (For instance, you could have all of your data saved in JSON files, but it would probably make for a slow blog once your files get really large.)

Mike Baxter
Mike Baxter
4,442 Points

Oh, my bad! I must have been really tired when I wrote this. I thought you were talking about forums. In some ways blogs and forums are very similar if you allow for commenting.

Rasmus Ishøi
PLUS
Rasmus Ishøi
Courses Plus Student 157 Points
Rasmus Ishøi
Rasmus Ishøi
Courses Plus Student 157 Points

Take a look at Wordpress: http://teamtreehouse.com/library/how-to-make-a-wordpress-blog Its not a framework but a complete Blog system, you can completely customize to your needs, and is durable for doing almost anything you want with a website.

Andrei Georgescu
Andrei Georgescu
6,256 Points
Andrei Georgescu
Andrei Georgescu
6,256 Points

thanks