CmsForNerd For Learning HTML CSS and PHP

CmsForNerd For Learning HTML CSS and PHP

CmsForNerd Main Site http://cmsfornerd.harisfazillah.info/
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CmsForNerd Blog http://cmsfornerd.perempuanmelayu.info/
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CmsForNerd is a simple Contents Management Software or CMS that can
easily understand by any PHP programmers. It's using the common logics
and structures that are used by numbers of PHP programs and CMS.

Our goal is to produce an output that confirm to XHTML W3C standard.
By using PHP any web pages a website using CmsForNerd can have a
standard theme and XHTML output.

CmsForNerd is target for advanced end users that like to coding in
HTML, PHP and CSS but want the web site to be easy to maintain and
manage.

CmsForNerd is design not to used any database. CMS with database will
added extra administration jobs to backup and checking the database.

CmsForNerd is for small web site with static contents that not usually
change.

A web page from CmsForNerd is called from a PHP script. Each web pages
will have it own PHP scripts. This PHP scripts will get it's content
from contents folder. This PHP script also called pager.php from theme
folder for the layout of the web page.
The list of Files and folders used by CmsForNerd

(1) This files must be in the contents directory

* common-headertag.inc - Contain information for HEAD TAG. Some
information need to be customize for your website.
* header.inc - not used but need to have for reference. Refer
header.tpl in themes folder.
* footer.inc - The common footer of the web site.
* right-side.inc - Right hand side colum.
* left-side.inc - Left hand side colum.

(2) This files must be in the includes directory

* common.inc.php - PHP functions for CmsForNerd to work.
* global-control.inc.php - parameter global to all.

(3) This directory and files must be in the themes directory

* CmsForNerd - the directory (folder). It can be in any name
depending on the theme.

Inside this folder should have this files.

* theme.php - It's called by global-control.inc.php in includes
folder. This file will call file style.css for CSS.
* style.css - The CSS file that control the appearance of the
website.
* pager.php - The control page for the layout. It is called by the
PHP scripts of the web pages.
* header.tpl - called by pager.php. Usually the top banner graphic
is called from here.
* bodytop.tpl - called by pager.php
* bodyfooter.tpl - called by pager.php

If you want to customize the layout. Copy the contents of this
CmsForNerd folder into another name and it should be in themes
directory.

To called you new theme, change the file global-control.inc.php in
includes directory. The parameter $THEMENAME="CmsForNerd"; should be
change to your new theme.

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