Blog Series
- Part 1 – The Structure
- Part 2 – SEO URLs
- Part 3 Comments with Disqus
- Part 4 Categories
- Part 5 Sidebar, Categories and Archives
- Part 6 Pagination
- Part 7 Tags
- Part 8 Tags Sidebar
This tutorial covers creating a very basic blog. It will consist of posts only. The frontend will consist of only two pages, an index page to list all posts and a view page to view a post.
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There will be a backend control panel to manage posts and admins, this guide will also be there contain a user authentication system to login administrators.
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Admin Demo:
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Username: Demo Password: Demo
I will reinstall the demo every hour.
The file structure will be set up as follows:
There will be two MySQL tables, blog_posts and blog_members.
blog_posts structure:
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blog_members structure
Each page needs a database connection, this is opened in config.php:
Start output buffering, then headers can be used anywhere . Start sessions needed for the admin area.
Define the database connection details and then open a PDO connection.
Also set the time zone, adjust it as needed.
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//If the form has been submitted, process it if(isset($_POST[‘submit’]))){ $_POST = array_map( ‘stripslashes’, $_POST ); //collect form data extract($_POST); //very simple validation if($postTitle ==”){ $error[] = ‘Please enter the title.’; } if($postDesc ==”){ $error[] = ‘Please enter the description.’; } if($postCont ==”){ $error[] = ‘Please enter the content.’; }
Next, if no error was set, insert the data into the database, this uses prepared statements using the placeholders :postTitle, :postDesc, etc. to bind the matching array elements on execution to add the data into the correct columns. After pasting, the user will be redirected back to the administrator. An action status is appended to the URL ?action=added.
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if(!isset($error)){ try { //insert into database $stmt = $db-php?id=
if(isset($password)){ $hashedpassword = $user-php’); //if not logged in redirect to login page if(!$user-‘; } if($postDesc ==”){ $error[] = ‘Please enter the description.’; } if($postCont ==”){ $error[] = ‘Please enter the content.’; } if(!isset($error)){ try { //insert in database $stmt = $db-php’); } //Display message from add/edit page if(isset($_GET[‘deluser’]))){ //If userid is 1, ignore if($_GET[‘deluser’] !=’1 ‘){ $stmt = $db-php”
