About 4 years ago I came up with my own CMS (Content Management System) this was around the time when PHPNuke was big (I was bored and wanted develop my own CMS) . At the time of writing the CMS; I was concerned with database connectivity and and hated all those websites that errored and printed the SQL = “select ID, Content from tbl_News” querys or just crashed due to the load because they were not being optimised correctly. For this reason, I went ahead and created a system that would generate static HTML content from a database that could easily be managed.

Today, I notice sites like World of Warcraft using a similar technique to mine using XML, XSL and JSP to parse the static content whilst giving the site the flexibility to be managed by a none technical web content team.

Read on, if you want to learn how I created my CMS and gain access to the source.

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