Page 01: Prerequisitions

Before you start this tutorial there are some things you'll need to have. You will also need to have some earlier basic knowledge since I won't go into evry line of code and explain it.

Software

This is the software that you will need in order to follow this tutorial:

• Apache Server (or any other local server that supports PHP). I recommend WAMP for Windows. MAMP or XAMPP should work well on Mac.
• MySQL comes with all the three packages I mentioned above. You will also need to know the root-password for the database (if there is any).
• Text Editor is up to you to choose. I use Notepad++ for Windows.

Programming knowledge

Since I won't go through every line of code you may need some basic knowledge in the following:

• HTML : I won't explain any HTML-tags so if you don't know any HTML you probably should learn that first. Who wants to build a CMS without having HTML-knowledge, anyway?
• CSS : I'm not going to discuss the design in this tutorial. The main reason for this is that there is no design, only colored fields. I leave the design to you. There are some DIV-names that are essential for the script to work and I will point that out to you during the tutorial. The CSS-file used in the prototype will be available to download in case you don't want to bother with designing the CMS.
• PHP : Some knowledge is good but I think you could follow along even if you don't now anything about PHP.
• SQL : No knowledge required if you have access to PHPMyAdmin. Otherwise you should know some SQL if you have to input all queries via the MySQL command window.
• JavaScript : There is a lot of JavaScript going on at this CMS since it's Ajax-based. The more knowledge you have, the better. But I will try to explain the JavaScript-functions as thorougly as I can.

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