When Pligg's Fly - Test flight
I was recently asked by a friend on a tight budget to help set up a small site similar to digg or some of the other social news and link aggregators. I thought it would be easy to find an open source project or three to choose from and adapt to their needs, but I only found one that was active and stable — Pligg. Since I am going to be working on this mini-project on and off for the next couple weeks I thought I would post my first impressions. By no means is this an exhaustive review just a quick overview after a couple hours.
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Url Routing with PHP - Part Three
In the final part of this series, I will build a functional modular front controller that can be easily adapted to small projects. It is basically the "C" in MVC for a simple MVC framework. If you haven't read the first two articles I recommend that you read over them first. Url Routing with PHP - Part One and Url Routing with PHP - Part Two.
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