wevrem/wcommon

Useful PHP functions and classes

wCommon

Common code for templates, forms, and page elements., _(*1)

wStandard

Functions for handling errors, managing URL's, string and date manipulations, and custom HTML elements., _(*2)

HTMLComposer

An object for constructing HTML, keeping track of and closing elements as they are added to the pile., _(*3)

Template

Subclass of HTML_Template_Sigma that adds useful features., _(*4)

FormBuilder

Class for handling the building and processing of HTML forms., _(*5)

Using wCommon—A very quick guide

The following are very high level steps (read: bare minimum steps) to setting up a simple blog-like website that uses wCommon and dStruct., _(*6)

1. Set up a server with Apache, PHP and MySQL. Using PEAR, install HTML_Template_Sigma.
2. Install wCommon and dStruct on your server, typically in /usr/share/php. Adjust PHP's include_path to point to this location.
3. Copy the files from the sample folder to some location reachable by Apache and set the DocumentRoot to the www folder.
4. Create a database and run the statements in struct.sql to create the proper dStruct tables.
5. Create a user with permissions for that database, and capture those credentials inside inc-standard.php.
6. After editing some internal parameters, run the script create-user.php to create an admin user.
7. At this point you should have a working website that displays posts. You can log in as the admin and create, edit, and delete posts and also upload images and other documents.