So, over the winter I had been working on a portfolio website redesign for a 3D artist in Toronto. The project was mostly php/mysql based which was a welcome change from all the flash work I had been doing earlier that year. The website includes an inline CMS (meaning that after you login, you just navigate around and edit whatever items you want to). It turned out a lot better than I thought it would and uses a lot of ajax for a lot of the cms updates. My buddy Ian McFadyen did all the design work and did an amazing job to boot. I handled all of the development work.

View Ray Caesar’s website.

After learning about the project I realized I should probably get my hands on a PHP based framework to base everything off of. I found out that so many frameworks are way too convoluted with things I would never use. Along my google journey I ran accross something called Simple PHP Framework. I downloaded it and ran some tests with it. It comes with some very nice utility functions and classes including user authorization classes and database access classes. It had pretty much everything I was looking for.

Anyways, I’m just sending out much love to the guys involved with the framework for saving me many hours of tearing my hair out figuring a lot of this stuff out myself. I’ve also since implemented it on http://www.freeshipping.org and the admin for my first iPhone app’s webservice at http://www.couponsherpa.com.