Building a Site Engine with PHP, Part 5
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So you want to use your site engine that you’ve been working on? Okay, now is the time for me to show you how to add plug-ins, modules, blocks, and templates to your database so that they will work with your engine. It’s not that hard to do, and with just a few simple steps, you’ll be running your site off your new stylish site engine in no time.
What do you Need?
The easiest thing to do to install your components into your site engine is to get a GUI for MySQL. The one I use is called MySQL Front, which I’m not sure is available anymore. There’s also another one available from the MySQL website called MySQL command console. This will make it a lot easier to work with MySQL when doing the following things, mostly because there’s a lot to do when installing the components of your site engine when you try to do it through a command line interface.
First, you need to know what things are a must when using a site engine such as this one. Plug-ins aren’t dependant on anything other than themselves. Modules are dependant on plug-ins, therefore you must have a plug-in installed for the module to connect to. Blocks are dependant on both modules and plug-ins. So you must make sure that you have installed the plug-in and the module that the block depends on to load, or else you’ll get some nasty results.
It’s also a pretty good idea to make a list of all your plug-ins, modules, and blocks so that way you can check them off as you install them because sometimes it gets a little confusing when you are working in the database and you no longer see the names of the files, only numbers relating to the ID of each component. I’ve been known to write it down on paper, along with the ID number of each, as I add them to the database, and yes, I do use a lot of paper.
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