My name? Base… Data Base.
I was approached a few weeks ago to be part of an exciting little project that unfortunately I’m not at liberty to reveal (for now, let’s refer to it as “project-n“) and therefore must digress on the details of what the app will do. However, the technical aspect of the project has been particularly interesting and lends itself to a post such as this.
The public-facing part of the site is/will-be a flash application displaying content in a “turn-page” fashion, which I will probably talk more on at a later time. This system will grab its’ data as XML output from a MySQL database.
On the back-end, we basically needed a CRUD (Create, Read, Update, Delete) style system, with some custom file management integrated into it. I had two major language choices: Ruby (with the Rails framework of course) or PHP. The programmer in me desperately wanted to take this opportunity to go nuts with Rails and create some great new web-two-point-o masterpiece, but the time limit we’re working with meant that I really needed to stick to PHP (which I am far more familiar with).
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