Re: Web application design considerations - a good reference ?

On Tuesday 02 June 2009 07:50:36 am Angus Mann wrote: > Hi all. > > I'm working on a PHP project for my own personal business use. It will > handle billing and invoices as well as payments and time management, > bookings, appointments and a few more. I may add things like personal > messaging between the various users and a customer login to check on the > progress of their accounts. > > It is a big project and will probably take a year or so to complete in my > spare time. > > I have made a couple of starts but I have no experience in creating such > large applications and I find I often end up with spaghetti code. I've > tried using session variables to keep track of where and what the program > is doing but there are so many permuations and combinations I found myself > writing endless streams of if's, and's and or's just to figure out what > page to display. > > The code is not the probblem for me...it's the flow and organization of the > code. > > Can anybody point me to a good book or tutorial that lays down the > principles and gives some suggestions for integrating the many subroutines > of a large application? I want to make the code readable and logical in its > flow, and avoid repetition of code segments. > > Much appreciated. > Angus Hello, Use CMS/Framework like Drupal or TYPO3 All of them have coding principles. You can follow. Plus they do tons of things. (authentication. this that) Your time may cut 3 months.