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Content Management Systems
Total User Control
As the Creel Commission fanbase has grown, so has the frequency and importance of updating their site; the few original management tools I provided for their convenience, soon proved too slight for the volume of work required. The answer was the development of a custom written content management system. The following were required of the system:
- All CMS functionality should be available through a secure web-based login.
- The CMS should have the ability to manage a mailing list from the web, including: subscription and unsubscriotion functionality, the sending of plain text and html emails, the ability to send attachments, a series of templates for various style of email.
- It should have the ability to upload images to various areas of the site, and have automatic image processing carried out upon them (i.e. thumbnailing, resizing etc.).
- All the sites pages required various levels of editability.
- The site's custom-built message board required editorial functionality.
The Solution
PHP and MySQL proved the perfect tools for achieving our goals on this Apache hosted site. The image processing that was required was acheived by calling ImageMagick via PHP.