While working on the new portal I have been storing the page content and news items in plain text files. From a personal perspective this has advanced my understanding of handling files in php rather than setting up the usual CRUD functions to talk a databse. I have set up two folders: one to hold the page content for the site and the other to hold the news items (which I aim to provide as an on-demand rss feed). For…

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I’m attempting to create a new portal framework to drastically simplify the presentation of news and student specific information. This is currently handled by Drupal with various inhouse modules hanging off it. Part of this is a news manager which will be able to supply federated news feeds as well as plain HTML to various sources. I’ve decided to use php interfaces throughout the development as this is seen as best practice (at the moment). There’s a main class for…

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