Tuesday, May 6, 2008

uBuyAnime.com - My First LAMP Project



An anime reviews and sells engine, which uses PHP and MySQL. This project was difficult as I was new to PHP, MySQL, CSS, Smarty, and web design in general, and a project of this size required me to create a simple and intuitive design structure which would allow me to easily add enhancements to the existing code. Well suffice it to say I didn't know what I was doing and at present it is very difficult to add anything to this project, so I am currently working on re-writing this project using my new platform (which is expandable) -- I am getting ahead of myself... So I started off with a basic understanding of MySQL, and a basic understanding of PHP.

I stumbled through the process of creating this application, and would never imagine writing an application in that fashion again, the process was tedious and could have easily been avoided if I did a little bit more research before starting the project, hind site is always 20/20.

Bellow I have added a bulleted list of features that I added to this program, I have omitted the features that are not worth mention:

  • Complete categorization of reviews, using a system which allows for unlimited categories.
  • Fully functional administrative area which allows adding, editing, and deleting of review information.
  • Reviews catalogue, which allows the user to browse the entire reviews database by letter.
  • Entire styling of program uses Smarty and CSS, which allows for quick and easy site customization.

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