[hyperzzzz]

Says it all in the title. As I make gaming sites (no not the shite ones) and would like to give my own cms a try as I feel it is more personal and would be more flexible to do so. Thus making it exactly how I want it to do.

Any help or guidance would be great.

[Shiro]

We can't teach you how to make a CMS in a thread.

Learn PHP or ROR or PERL or PYTHON. In learning them, you will learn the building blocks of the language. From there you can probably find some online tutorials, if necessary.

[karmedic]

To add to haku's response ... try downloading Joomla or Drupal. It will give you an idea of how CMS' are constructed and perhaps convince you to focus on building modules/components on existing infrastructures rather than entire frameworks from scratch.

[jcblitz]

Here is an article about a guy that decided to use Python on his latest project and he explains why. But judging from the tone of this thread, you don't have any programming experience so I'm not sure how helpful this would be.

Note: I just got a message saying I cannot post links to other sites yet. Search for "How I ended up selecting Python for my latest project" on google or something and it should be one of the top links.

[pgo]

Post it without the "http://" or the "www."

[hyperzzzz]

Cheers guys, you are right I dont have an php etc knowledge, I can only code in Visual Basic.

Definately something I can read into, thanks for the replies.

[Root Ninja]

I would say use PHP and MYSQL. I gotta a book on them and was coding in three days, I had completed my first site with it within a week.

If you want to test the waters you can get ready made databases from some hosts, all you have to do is setup the tables and communicate with it. Tis a piece of piss.

[foundbydesign]

Originally Posted by Root Ninja

I would say use PHP and MYSQL. I gotta a book on them and was coding in three days, I had completed my first site with it within a week.

If you want to test the waters you can get ready made databases from some hosts, all you have to do is setup the tables and communicate with it. Tis a piece of piss.

I bought PHP & MySQL for Dynamic Web Sites: Visual QuickPro Guide, written by Larry Ullman. Well written and easy to understand. Seemed to help me get a good start and also a great reference when I need it.

[Jaruddd]

Originally Posted by hyperzzzz

Cheers guys, you are right I dont have an php etc knowledge, I can only code in Visual Basic.

Definately something I can read into, thanks for the replies.

If you code in VB, it won't take long for you to get your head wrapped around the basics here.

If you're coding a CMS, you'll be looking at a very tree-like structure. You'll have your includes, modules, and all that good stuff. Just keep in mind MYSQL is going to be just as important in this instance as PHP, as you'll be directly interfacing with databases with a CMS.