that or a whole separate dev clone of the site, although it’s not hard to set up a local copy on one’s own machine; usually good enough.
as far as frameworks go, personal preference goes to django/rails, but then that might just be because they use python/ruby over php :P (something to do with this perhaps? http://www.hermann-uwe.de/files/images/programmer_hierarchy.png) happy with whatever you pick if you feel use of one is beneficial. On 13 Nov 2010, at 20:48, Patrick Robertson wrote: > Another reply! > An idea about using Github and getting the content on to the site could be > just to run a simple (password protected) where we could chose which file to > copy over, save it as a temp (e.g. index-temp.php) file, run it to check it > looks good then add it over? > > On 14 November 2010 07:39, Patrick Robertson <[email protected]> > wrote: > GitHub repo online: > > https://github.com/pjrobertson/QSApp.com > > > On 14 November 2010 07:31, Patrick Robertson <[email protected]> > wrote: > No repo yet, but it does sound like a good idea. > GitHub pages looks like an awesome idea, but unfortunately GitHub only does > static HTML (no PHP), and there won't be any MySQL access :( > > http://support.github.com/discussions/feature-requests/388-host-working-php-scripts-in-gh-pages > > I'll create a repo on github - we could set it up on the server itself but I > only have shared hosting so couldn't install it. If we wanted to go dedicated > (may have to down the line if the site gets a lot of traffic), then the price > is gonna jump hugely! > > http://www.unitedhosting.co.uk/dedicated.php > (I'd wanna stick with these guys - really really good, they could probably do > a 'half bronze' package as well) > > On 14 November 2010 02:51, Rob McBroom <[email protected]> wrote: > On Nov 13, 2010, at 7:29 AM, [email protected] wrote: > > > is there a repo for the website code somewheres? > > I don't think there's any code yet, so no, but GitHub seems like a good > choice to me. > > I had also talked to Patrick about basing the site on Zend Framework, but > like him, I don't want to make any unilateral decisions. Any objections to > ZF? Anyone have experience with it besides me? > > To be clear, I'm just talking about the main parts of the site and the stuff > that will present plugins (to users and QS). Stuff that doesn't exist yet. > I'm not talking about replacing MediaWiki. > > -- > Rob McBroom > <http://www.skurfer.com/> > > > >
