Dade’s Blog

Having recently picked up a project that was side-lined for a while I’ve come to the realisation that PHP is not a language I like, and I’m as rusty as hell with it. The project is a community engine for achievements. I won’t go into great deal just yet, but it requires a forum, a facebook-like functionality but without the crap that unfortunately the community have added to it, and a lot of code.

I’ve opted to do this from scratch, as I’m not really satisfied with the other community engines out there for PHP. As a result, I’ve run into the problem of work load. It’s a big project and one that I’m passionate about, but the lack of will to live whilst using PHP is one that bothers me.

I over exaggerate a little. It’s not as bad as I make out, this PHP lark, but I feel that there are better engines out there for achieving this type of project in a lot shorter space of time. I’m going to create this site/community on 2 or 3 different languages/frameworks. First will be pure and plain PHP, the next will be the CodeIgniter framework for PHP, and lastly Ruby on Rails. This means a bit more work than before, but in actual fact the hardest part of it all is the planning. Once I have the site running under one system, it’ll be easy enough to implement it into others.

Still, it’s a big job and nowhere near off the ground in terms of the code side. The ideas and planning has been there some time. We’ll see how it goes.

For the time being, I’m going to be cheeky and ask for all the PHP nuts out there that I know to give me a shout if they’re interested in giving me some pointers and helping with the intricacies of PHP programming.

Rubyists also wanted for much the same. I cannot offer pay, but you will get my e-kudos; and that, my friends, is invaluable. <3

Thanks in advance!

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