Web Application Development with PHP 4.0

Chapter 3. Application Design: A Real-Life Example

     Prevent trouble before it arises. Put things in order before they exist.                    The giant pine tree              grows from a tiny sprout.        The journey of a thousand miles         starts from beneath your feet.

Application design is a topic so broad that a whole book couldn't fully cover it. The term application design contains merely every single part of development, from data structure layout, flow charts, and entity-relationship diagrams to code layout, documentation, and anything in between. Because it is so important, however, we decided not to exclude it from this book, but instead to tackle a discussion of application design by restricting the topics covered to ...