Powered by phpLD
paan
21 July 2008
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Powered by phpLD is a series that I made to follow me as I poke under the hood of phpLD. I will share my experience as a first time directory owner for the directory site xerie.net and also my experience as I go poking into the source of phpld. I hope that the whole experice can be educational for me and also to whomever that reads this.
I’ve been wanting to get my hands on a toy project to play with when recently I’ve stumble upon phpLD. phpLD is a popular directory script. The version 2 of the product is the forgotten brother of the more advanced and paid version of phpld version 3. phpLD version 2 is still widely used by a lot of people. Mainly because it’s free and it works. It may not have all the nifty features and mods of the v3 line. But it is a solid directory software albeit a little barebone.
It is a good oppurtunity for my to sharpen my rusty coding skills with this project because it have a solid code base that I can use as a jump off point. so that I don’t need to spend a lot of time coding basic framework stuff. And secondly because there are a lot of ideas already implemented in phpLD3, if I ever ran out of idea on what to do with it I can easily look at a feature that is present in v3 but not implemented in v2 and try to do my own implementation of it. Finaly, because phpld2 is still widely used, any improvement (if I ever make any) will benefit a lot of people and give me a warm fuzzy feeling :D.
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