The World of Warcraft Information Database :: My First Content Management System
I finally finished up my very first PHP and MySQL-based content management system known as the World of Warcraft Information Database, which can be found here. I started this project over the summer this past July, and today I wrapped it up by finishing the leaderboard page, category page, and the right sidebar, as well as various other odds and ends such as the advertisements.
I built this CMS from the ground up, and I intentionally programmed it very loosely so as to create a highly customizable and easy to manipulate piece of software. Right now it is aimed to be populated with articles about Blizzard’s World of Warcraft game, but it could easily be changed to fit any topic worthy of having content.
I would not mind making this software go open source, but I would really prefer it if people asked me if they could use it. Not because I am greedy and don’t want certain people using my code. It’s actually quite the opposite. I would really enjoy it if people used my software, but I figured that if I made the source open to the public, people would just take it and I would never know about it. I am curious to see what kinds of things people would use it for.
Please contact me if you would like the source code. 
I am placing a link to this CMS at the top of the blog so people can access it at any time. I don’t know if it will ever really kick off and get popular, but I will preserve the link to it so that people can always take a look. It would be interesting to see how the scripts hold together when being used on a large-scale website that has tens of thousands of articles.
I will surely be updating and adding new features when I get the chance. I tested it pretty thoroughly, but it would not surprise me if there is a bug or two to be found. It would be nice if I could write my own search functionality, but I decided to use a Google Search Bar instead. Writing a search algorithm would be a whole project of it’s own, and that wasn’t my main focus with this CMS.
So please check it out and comment to let me know what you think. And again, if you’re interested, I would be more than happy to donate my source code to anyone who would put it to use.
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