Question

So I have to created a recipe website and HTML-CSS is mainly my forte. I need a database to search through over a 100 recipes and mainly sort them,by author, apart from the other sorting orders. I don’t want to use a CMS like Joomla. How do I start about?

Do I store the entire recipe(with a picture or two), into the database, or only a link to the recipe?

Secondly, the client would be updating the website as well, is there any way to simplify the process for the client who has absolutely no knowledge of adding into a database.

Answer 1

You’re going to need to do some server-side scripting. If you don’t want to use a CMS or framework, you (or someone else) will have to write the code for all of the site.

DB design pointers:

• Store the recipe in the database, along with the author, etc.
• Don’t store the pictures in the db, even though it’s easy enough to do. Better store than in a field in the db, called ‘filename’ or something which stores the path of the images on the server.
• For the client – you will need to build a backend/admin page(s) with ‘forms’ for the client to upload (add), update and delete recipes and pictures.