I’m developing a CMS for a client where he can only access it with a password.
In this site he can edit, delete, create new articles.
I use this system:
- classes called by the “action files” than handle data, process and output them
- php files that print the html code received from the classes
The problem is that with the “action” files. for action files I mean the files that receive the forms data and requests and send them to the classes to handle. Last time I made a single file with a switch with for example “delete_article”, “create_article” etc with the relative method to call but this becomes easily a MESS. I was wondering if there could be simplest ways to organize this. Maybe just doing php file for every “action” I wanna do?
Please considering I’m just starting with OOP so I could have said a lot stupid things 😀
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If I was to go straight at answering your question, I would suggest you have a closer look at MVC which is a way of organizing files. But I know that this may be hard to understand in the beginning, which is why I tell people to introduce themselves to it by using a framework of their choice. Of course, from a development perspective having a framework is also preferable because it will speed up your process.
Like Razor said in his comment, reinventing the wheel may be a waste of time. You’ll also be happy to note, then, that there is plenty of open-source code written in specific frameworks and if you know these frameworks, you will be able to extend on that code very easily. If you try to extend upon a random CMS-script, this may very well be a waste of time as well if you can’t understand it.