It’s been a long time since I actually coded a custom standalone php application for a client and I found my skills to be a little rusty at first. The reason I don’t get to code a lot of custom applications anymore is because most of the client projects we see today are built on top of a cms like wordpress or a framework like modx. In this instance the client already had their website developed internally and just needed us to develop an enhanced members area so they could communicate and share information with their members.
The membership table for this project has approximately 500 members in it, each member has the ability to authenticate by login and then view protected content. Members can also submit changes to their contact or login information that has to be approved before it’s accepted. Of course the normal features such as lost password restoration are also in place.
This solution was built entirely using PHP and all of the data is stored in 17 tables inside a MySQL database. For easier management of a large membership database with over 500 members, I also built in the ability to export and import data to the database from either XLS or CSV format. This should be another convenient aspect of the solution for our client.
I am pretty anxious to demo this application and bug-test it this next week. I used the newest version of PHPRunner IDE to develop this project and even though I was a little out of practice I still was able to code the project a lot faster than if I had used another tool like Eclipse or Notepad. The new version of PHPR is very nice, it’s been a while since I upgraded and have to admit that there are so many new features that I haven’t even looked into yet.
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