Core PHP Programming, Third Edition

Chapter 27. Design

Topics in This Chapter

• Writing Requirements Specifications

• Writing Design Documents

• Change Management

• Modularization Using include

• FreeEnergy

• Templates

• Application Frameworks

• PEAR

• URLs Friendly to Search Engines

Building a Web site with PHP is not the same as building a static Web site. If you choose simply to sprinkle PHP code occasionally throughout the site, the effect may be minimal, of course. If you choose to use PHP to generate every page, you will find many opportunities for transforming patterns into functions. As I wrote in Chapter 26, elements such as opening and closing body tags can be put into a function or an included file. The consequence of this situation is that you no longer have just a Web site. You have a Web ...