m4rtin Posted December 29, 2011 Share Posted December 29, 2011 I would like to create my own blog. I am aware, that there are plenty of powerful open source and simple to use blog engines out there, but I would like to create my own for sake of learning and later for my personal usage. In other words, main purpose to build my own blog is to learn how to create modern web applications from scratch and to fully understand the web application I will be using later I would like to keep my blog as simple as possible, jet able to extend it later. For a start I would like to have a simple WYSIWYG editor built in JavaScript, able to upload articles to my blog and use MySQL database for storing the data. Blog should be really simple- just articles listed based on the upload data. In addition, I would like to modify articles later and delete the articles. In addition, I would like to have possibility to leave comments under the articles. As I understand I need to use PHP, JavaScript, MySQL, HTML to fulfil this goal. Any other technologies? In addition, any recommended books to read, which might help to tie those technologies together? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scootstah Posted December 30, 2011 Share Posted December 30, 2011 You don't need to use Javascript - it will just make the user experience a little nicer. Creating a blog is just basic PHP with MySQL interaction. Learn how to insert rows into a database, and retrieve them later and you have a blog. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adam Posted January 2, 2012 Share Posted January 2, 2012 Can't really say more than scootstah; once you've learnt how to insert and retrieve from a database you have the essentials to create a blog. Any additional features or 'dynamic functionality' are all extras you will learn in time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
QuickOldCar Posted January 2, 2012 Share Posted January 2, 2012 ajax for some slick dynamic content without refreshing the page (optional) some css style to make it all look pretty Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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