Apache/MySQL/PHP

Well, it's been a while, but here I am, in my last class required for my Master's degree, and I chose to do my culminating project in technology. So, again, I'm working with Alvin on this. I was pretty open to a lot of possibilities for this project, and steered towards Content Management Systems (CMS). But alas, it's not that simple. To run a CMS, you have to have a server. So it began. I tried configuring Apache, MySQL and PHP to work together, but I failed somewhere. So Alvin suggested I try Apache2Triad (http://apache2triad.net/). It's a WAMP, or all-in-one download. And what do ya know, after about 20 minutes of downloading, installing, and configuring (which there wasn't much configuring to do) it's up and running. A lot further than I was before. The biggest problem I had was that all of the php files were trying to be opened by Microsoft Picture It! I have no idea how that happened, but it's kinda impossible for a picture viewer to open scripts LOL

So now I'm trying to install the CMS I chose to use, e107 (http://www.e107.org). Hopefully this will go a little more smoothly now that the PHP is working correctly. A CMS allows you to easily control and publish content to the web, eliminating the time and energy spent in writing HTML code. It provides an easy way for people with access to the CMS to input and/or edit information for a webpage without having to know much about HTML. As I learn more about it, I'll post more.