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About these pages

They may look simple, almost basic, without relevant content. But these pages are not that unimportant to me: they are the product of Blue Electric Engine, a CMS in the making, version 0.2.1 of a simple PHP engine which I'm developing based on a previous CMS I've built to run a web project of mine.

PHP is used to build these pages from a MySQl database. In the previous version, simple text files were used to store all data in a logical structure on a UNIX server. Just for the fun of it, I've been managing those files with shell scripts which I wrote to support a simple work flow. PHP also took care of the consistency of data and put together the menu on the right hand side.

Is this the way to handle a future web project? Most certainly not. Which is why I went and rewrote the entire mechanism from scratch, using more up to date - but not cutting edge - technology: the trusted (??) PHP/MySQL combination. A first implementation of the resulting system can be found here (in German only).

From what I've learned so far here, and including more than a single code snippet from the BEE, I'm going to write a new system - of which there will be more to be learned once there is something to show.

Stay tuned!

SDF has moved. All user content has moved, as well. And it just might have been my bad luck that my database fell off the flatbed. Luckily, I had a backp, albeit a rather old one. Still, life goes on here.

10 days after its first day out, the Blue Electric Engine now has a back office - an admin panel complete with password protection user management and even a rudimentary rights management. We're making progress.

On February 14th, 2010, Blue Electric Engine was launched: out of a three-year-old simplistic, file system-based CMS came the nucleus of a modern, database-driven Micro-Content Management System.