PHP 5 CMS Framework Development -- Table of Contents -- PHP 5 CMS Framework Development -- Credits -- About the Author -- Acknowledgement -- About the Reviewers -- Preface -- What this book covers -- What you need for this book -- Who this book is for -- Conventions -- Reader feedback -- Customer support -- Errata -- Piracy -- Questions -- 1. CMS Architecture -- The idea of a CMS -- Critical CMS features -- Desirable CMS features -- System management -- Technology for CMS building -- Leveraging PHP5 -- Some PHP policies -- Globalness in PHP -- Classes and objects -- Objects, patterns, and refactoring -- The object-relational compromise -- Basics of combining PHP and XHTML -- Model, view, and controller -- The CMS environment -- Hosting the CMS -- Basic browser matters -- Security of a CMS -- Some CMS terminology -- Summary -- 2. Organizing Code -- The problem -- Discussion and considerations -- Security -- Methods of code inclusion -- Practicality in coding -- Exploring PHP and object design -- Autoloading -- Namespaces and class visibility -- Singletons -- Objections to use of singletons -- Framework solution -- Autoloading -- The smart class mapper -- Finding a path to the class -- Populating the dynamic class map -- Saving map elements -- Obtaining class information -- Summary -- 3. Database and Data Objects -- The problem -- Discussion and considerations -- Database dependency -- The role of the database -- Level of database abstraction -- Ease of development -- Keeping up with change -- Database security -- Pragmatic error handling -- Exploring PHP-indirect references -- Framework solution -- Class structure -- Connecting to a database -- Handling databases easily -- Prefixing table names in SQL -- Making the database work -- Getting hold of data -- Higher level data access -- Assisted update and insert -- What happened?.

Database extended services -- Getting data about data -- Easier data about data -- Aiding maintenance -- Data objects -- Rudimentary data object methods -- Data object input and output -- Setting data in data objects -- Sequencing database rows -- Database maintenance utility -- Summary -- 4. Administrators, Users, and Guests -- The problem -- Discussion and considerations -- Who needs users? -- Secure authentication -- Secure storage of passwords -- Blocking SQL injection -- Login -- Managing user data -- User self service -- Customizing for users -- Extended user information -- Exploring PHP-arrays and SQL -- Framework solution -- The user database table -- Indexes on users -- Keeping user tables in step -- Achieving login -- Administering users -- Generating passwords -- Summary -- 5. Sessions and Users -- The problem -- Discussion and considerations -- Why sessions? -- How sessions work -- Avoiding session vulnerabilities -- Search engine bots -- Session data and scalability -- Exploring PHP-frameworks of classes -- Framework solution -- Building a session handler -- Creating a session -- Finding the IP address -- Validating a session -- Remembering users -- Completing session handling -- Session data -- Session data and bots -- Retrieving session data -- Keeping session data tidy -- Summary -- 6. Caches and Handlers -- The problem -- Discussion and considerations -- Why build information handlers? -- The singleton cache -- The disk cache -- Scalability and database cache -- The XHTML cache -- Other caches -- Exploring PHP-static elements and helpers -- Framework solution -- Abstract cache class -- Singleton object cache manager -- Creating the base class cached singleton -- Generalized cache -- Summary -- 7. Access Control -- The problem -- Discussion and considerations -- Adding hierarchy -- Adding constraints.

Avoiding unnecessary restrictions -- Some special roles -- Implementation efficiency -- Where are the real difficulties? -- Exploring SQL-MySQL and PHP -- Framework solution -- Database for RBAC -- Administering RBAC -- The general RBAC cache -- Asking RBAC questions -- Summary -- 8. Handling Extensions -- The problem -- Discussion and considerations -- An extension ecosystem -- Templates in the ecosystem -- Modules in the ecosystem -- Components in the ecosystem -- Component templates -- Modules everywhere -- More on extensions -- Templates -- Modules -- Components -- Component for the administrator -- Component for the user -- Component standard structure -- Plugins -- Extension parameters -- Exploring PHP-XML handling -- Framework solution -- Packaging extensions -- Module interface and structure -- The logic of module activation -- Component interface and structure -- A standardized component structure -- Plugin interface and structure -- Invoking plugins -- Applications -- Installing and managing extensions -- Structuring installer tasks -- Putting extension files in place -- Extensions and the database -- Knowing about extension classes -- Summary -- 9. Menus -- The problem -- Discussion and considerations -- Page management by URI -- Menu database requirements -- Menu management -- Menu construction -- Menu presentation -- Exploring PHP-array functions -- Framework solution -- Building the menu handler -- Interfacing to components -- The menu creator -- An example of a menu module -- Summary -- 10. Languages -- The problem -- Discussion and considerations -- Character sets -- UTF-8 and XHTML -- Specifying languages -- Handling multiple languages in code -- Languages in CMS extensions -- Handling languages in data -- Exploring PHP-character sets -- Framework solution -- The gettext implementation -- File formats for gettext.

Functions for gettext -- The PHPgettext classes -- The language class -- Administrator language application -- Language details -- Translation -- Handling extensions -- Managing extension translations -- Installing translations with CMS extensions -- Handling multilingual data -- Summary -- 11. Presentation Services -- The problem -- Discussion and considerations -- Differing points of view -- Model View Controller -- XHTML, CSS, and themes -- PHP for XHTML creation -- GUI widgets and XHTML -- Page control and navigation -- WYSIWYG editors -- XHTML cleaning -- The administrator interface -- Exploring PHP-clarity and succinctness -- Framework solution -- Using "heredoc" to define XHTML -- Using templating engines -- Some widgets -- Building page control -- Supporting editors -- Cleaning up XHTML -- Administrator database management -- Customization through subclassing -- Summary -- 12. Other Services -- The problem -- Discussion and considerations -- Parsing XML -- Configuration handling -- WYSIWYG editing -- File and directory handling -- Sending mail -- Parameter objects -- Administrator ready-made functionality -- Exploring PHP-file issues in web hosting -- Basic file and directory permissions -- Hosting and ownership -- Living with split ownership -- Avoiding split ownership -- Framework solution -- Reading XML files easily -- Storing configuration data -- Incorporating a WYSIWYG editor -- Dealing with files and directories -- Compound parameter objects -- Administrator ready-made table handlers -- Summary -- 13. SEF and RESTful Services -- The problem -- Discussion -- Transforming query strings -- Direct URI handling and REST -- Mechanics of URI handling -- Essential HTTP result codes -- The importance of metadata -- Exploring PHP-PHP and HTTP -- Framework solution -- Efficient lookup of very long keys -- Cache and database transformation.

Looking at SEF transformation code -- Decoding an incoming URI -- Encoding an outgoing URI -- Direct URI handling -- The future of direct URIs -- Summary -- 14. Error Handling -- The problem -- Discussion -- PHP error handling -- Database errors -- Application errors -- Exploring PHP-error handling -- Framework solution -- Handling database errors -- 404 and 403 errors -- Summary -- 15. Real Content -- The problem -- Discussion and considerations -- Articles, blogs, magazines, and FAQ -- Comments and reviews -- Forums -- Galleries, repositories, and streaming -- E-commerce and payments -- Forms -- Calendars -- Integrators -- RSS readers -- Other categories -- Exploring technology-accessibility -- General good practice -- Use of JavaScript -- Validation -- Framework solution -- A simple blog application -- The database table for blog -- A blog data object -- Administering blog items-controller -- Administering blog items-viewer -- Showing blogs to visitors -- Menu building -- Summary -- A. Packaging Extensions -- The XML setup file -- Parameters -- Parameter types -- B. Packaging XML Example -- Index.