Killersites Community: New PHP course: Build a Content Management System - Killersites Community

I'm excited to announce a brand new PHP course that will be added to the KillerSites Video Library for premium members! It is a course aimed at intermediate level web developers, demonstrating how to build a basic PHP based content management system. Along the way, I cover a wide range of technologies, including HTML and CSS, a bit of javascript/jQuery/AJAX and PHP/MySQLi. I also show how to integrate Colorbox (a jquery plugin) and TinyMCE (for the WYSIWYG functionality.)

The editing functionality is similar in some ways to the way that the MojoMotor CMS works (http://mojomotor.com/). The administrator logs into the CMS admin, and gets redirected to the site home page. Editable regions are highlighted within the page, and clicking on them brings up a modal edit window where the content can be edited in a WYSIWYG interface. Hopefully, this will make it easy for administrators to use, since they can easily navigate through the site and find the page they want to edit. My goal is to make something that is easy for administrators to understand and easy to add on additional functionality to the system (either by those who watch the series, or by me later.)

Rather than re-recording the same core functionality all over again, the system uses the code from the "PHP Login with OOP & MVC" series to form the base for the CMS. If you have already worked your way through that series, you'll have a bit of a step up during this series.

So far, 14 videos are up within the KillerSites Video library. Videos 1-4 are new, and videos 5-14 are rebranded videos from the PHP login series. I should be adding the rest of the videos over the course of the next two weeks (approximately) as I record them. I'll also post a teaser demo demonstrating the basic CMS up as well, for those who are interested but may not be KS Video Library subscribers.

I hope that this will be popular and people will find this useful. I'll have the rest of the series up as soon as I can.

Note: the course in now available - CMS Video Course

UPDATE: 5/2/11
I've updated the KillerSites Video Library with source files from videos 1-14, and new videos 15-21. I'm continuing to record, and I'll post new videos as I create them.

UPDATE: 5/6/11
Three more videos are up in the KS Video Library. More on their way shortly -- I hope to get close to having the course finished this weekend.

UPDATE: 5/8/11
Five more videos up in the KS Video Library. I've also added source files for videos 1-26.

UPDATE: 5/9/11
Two more videos added. I'm unfortunately getting a cold and losing my voice, but I'll be continuing the series as soon as my voice gets back to normal.

UPDATE: 5/15/11
Six more videos added. Just about done with the course! (for now, at least.)