In building an application for a local tennis club, it became apparent that a list of “how-to” and references was required. The need for our client is for a packaged product such as WordPress, Joomla or Drupal to use in the display and exchange information among the club membership. So far, WordPress is the package of choice for this project, although all have great features and functionality. The “back-end” need is for a custom application whereby club support personnel or coordinators can manage club membership and court reservations for twenty one different courts spread among four different country clubs. Additionally the tennis coordinators schedule tennis matches for club members based on some fairly complex rating criteria and game history.
The goal of this web site is to record and preserve technical information about creating such an application. As work evolves, pages will be created that document process and procedures to do the technical work. Areas of interest are:
- PHP
- Mysql
- Zend as a framework
- WordPress as a CMS (True Wordpres is a blogging platform, but it can also work quite well as a content management system.)
- WordPress as a blogging platform
Where the works of others are listed or quoted every effort will be made to refer the original source of that work with the appropriate links provided. The following links are some initial sources:
- PHP.NET, the definitive resource for PHP
- MySQL 5.5 Reference Manual
- Zend, the main site for Zend framework
- WordPress.org, the technical site – not to be confused with wordpress.com which is for users hosted blogs
- Wordpres Codex
- Joomla Beginners Documentation
For context, a linux perspective is assumed. Most of what is shown here can also be accomplished in the Windows environment, but for schedule and time availability reasons that translation is left to the reader.
Please feel free to browse the site. All constructive comments are welcome. Also, please check out the links on the left and right sidebars. The technical links are constantly being referred to as development of tennis club project progress.
- Bud Alexander, Software Developer
