21.3. Building a Content Management System

Building a content management system is a programmer's favorite task. This is my personal impression when talking to IT experts all around the globe. Every company focusing on Web development has implemented some sort of content management system (CMS) to speed up application development. Many different approaches and concepts for building CMS systems have been developed, and even more products have been implemented. In this section you will take a look at a basic yet powerful and easy approach to content management.

21.3.1. How to Display Data

Usually a CMS system consists of two important components. The first component is used to manage the data in the database. This part cannot be accessed by an ...

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