 | Level: Intermediate Tyler Anderson (tyleranderson5@yahoo.com), Freelance Writer, Backstop Media
14 Feb 2006 PHP is a great Web programming language to use when creating dynamic Web sites, such as blogs. This tutorial explains how to build a blog from scratch, while storing data using flat files. The Web site will be backed up on a remote system using Subversion, protecting data in the event of a Web-site crash. Subversion is growing in popularity, and it is a great candidate to back up the Web site. With Subversion, it's also possible to roll back the Web site to earlier versions of the blog if your server crashes, or if you just didn't like last week's rambling.
In this tutorial
You will build a Web log (blog) application from scratch using PHP that stores daily blog entries in flat files. Creating the blog application from scratch allows you to customize your blog in whatever way best suits you. Given how important your blog entries will be, it is important that you back up all of your relevant data. This tutorial will show you how to back up your blog using a version control tool known as Subversion.
Prerequisites
This tutorial assumes basic PHP knowledge and no knowledge of Subversion.
System requirements
The following tools are needed to follow along. This tutorial was written on Microsoft Windows system. The differences should be minimal, if any, for following along using a machine with a different operating system, such as Linux:
- Web server -- Any Web server can be used. However, this tutorial used Apache V2. Feel free to use Apache V2.x or the IBM HTTP Server.
- PHP -- You'll need PHP to code along. This tutorial uses PHP V5.0.3. However, anything higher is sufficient.
- Subversion -- A version control tool (the command-line client is
svn), will be used in the last section. Download Subversion, install it, and place its bin directory in your PATH.
Duration
Under two hours
Formats html, pdf
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