Peter Zeidman offers a multi-part article on Creating PHP-Based Content Management Systems. And why would you want to create your own CMS?
It can be so difficult to customize existing CMS’s, which are almost universally quite complex, that if you have specific requirements that you’d like to implement and offer to your users it might be a better solution to use PHP to create your own. Especially if you’re working in a team environment, there can be a real value in having everyone on the team up to speed on the inner subtleties of your CMS because you created it yourselves. This is a pretty lengthy two-part article that is extremely well done, with plenty of code snippets The.
