I never liked writing up a blog post and clocking preview post, only to find that the post appeared totally different once the site theme has been applied. Thankfully, there’s a fairly simple fix that will make the visual editor show text very close to the format that will be applied on the main page. Firstly, find out what your theme’s main...

Hi everyone, welcome to the start of a series of posts on development for the open source CMS Evolution Xtreme. This series is going to go through the basics of creating modules, starting at basic folder structure and going right through to user interaction and submissions. While you will hopefully learn something from going through my code examples, where you...

It is often easier when creating something pretty much from scratch to use some form of templating system rather than mixing layout and logic. It just makes things easier to work with. Several packages exist, such as Smarty, but why add so much bloat and slow down your code in order to do so? Additional syntax has to be parsed, which costs time. PHP will...