Over on DevArticles.com there's a new piece this morning titled The Content Management System Primer - basically an intro to CMS. It's not overly informative, but it's a nice start. For those that have been living under a rock, a CMS is basically what this kind of site is based around. It doesn't have to be just a way to enter/view/alter test on a page though - there's so much more you can do with the idea. A good CMS can be used to manage all sorts of things like images, PDF documents, employee's files....just about anything you can think up, there's probably a good way to make a CMS for it. This site (as well as DevArticles.com and tons of others) would be lost without some kind of content management system.
Over on the main PHP.net page they have a new little thing that a lot of people out there are sure to find handy - a "tourists' guide" to the PHP website. They go through the different sections, showing what all is available to look through and what each section is about. This page also has links to the documentation and support pages that several people (*cough*) seem to miss out on.
And, lastly today, there is a neat little thing that DynamicWebPages.de pointed out this morning called xDebug. It's an extention for PHP that provides you with some built-in debugging functions, with four functions that capture and display the debugging results for your code. It's a pretty cool idea, really - and it would be nice if maybe this got worked into the actual PHP source one day so that we'd have some debugging other than just "Fatal error: call to...." kinds of things.




