Web Design Update

After 3 years of reading up on web designing, particularly PHP and PEAR, I have finally stumbled on somthing known as Model-View-Controller (MVC) paradigm. I always felt web designing seemed a whole lot chaotic and unstructured.

Now, thanks to the MVC methodology and a good PHP framework like Yii, I have managed to develop the basic structure of my web application/site with the basic login processing.

Although, there are many PHP frameworks out there such as Akelos and CakePhp, but I found the Yii well documented for beginners. So, after I got the blog tutorial to work, I sat down to design the whole database schema of my application before I go on further. I'm only got it done half which is enough for now.

Right now, the website only exist on my local development machine. I've been configuring and reconfiguring my production machine since the web hoster did their upgrade, which messed up everything for me. I just can't get to change my [include_path]. I contacted tech support and the genius on the other end had no clue what the hell she was doing. But, I've managed to find a way around the problem. Although, it would make my life easier if I can edit the [include_path].

WAMP Installation Currupted

The WAMP installation on my Dev Machine crashed for some reason I don't know what? It took me an hour to restore it. It's setbacks like these that frustrate the hell out of me. I haven't quiet begun to design my website and my development environment keeps messing up.

I've been reading a lot of PEAR documentation lately. It's been over a week and I haven't exactly started the coding process. This web designing thing is so time consuming. And It doesn't help when your the only one on the project. If only I could find some qualified Web Designer to help me.

Is there a helping soul out there?!

Development Machine Setup

Finally, got my development machine installed and configured. Took me a whole afternoon. It takes so long because of the Internet searches for all the 'How Tos'. The Dev Machine's configuration is 'Windows XP Pro', Apache, Mysql, PHP, PEAR, and Smarty (WAMP).

Now, all I gotta figure out is how to set up a local PEAR installation on a shared UNIX (FreeBSD) web host. I took a whack at it and turned out to be a fruitless effort as of yet. I'll take another swipe at it sometime later.

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