Hi everyone,
Ok, I need serious help. I have been handed a project by my boss to convert an existing site that was built using ColdFusion / SQL into a site that will use PHP / mySQL. The site relies heavily on calls to the database for everything from site content, to an admin area where you can edit that content, to a news ticker, to the actual navigation of the site.
What's the problem? I have one week to do this. Oh, and did I mention that I know VERY little about PHP / mySQL. I know NOTHING about ColdFusion or MSSQL. And to top it off, the site in question contains over 300 .cfm files!
Does anyone have any idea how I could pull this off?
Even if I had a working knowledge of ColdFusion, MSSQL, PHP, mySQL...still one week isn't enough time to retool a site of this proportion. Especially considering that I don't understand any of the code that I'm staring at.
I've been a web designer for about five years now. Notice I said "designer" not "developer". I want to learn PHP / mySQL but in order to complete this project I also need to understand ColdFusion in order to replicate the site functionality. Any advice on what I should do?
Thanks in advance for your help, Chris
Tell your boss it's an unrealistic goal. Even for a seasoned PHP programmer with a firm grasp on MySQL, something of this scope is unrealistic for a single person. Scoping out the db schema alone could take a week or more (depending on the size of your db). That doesn't even take into account migrating your data from MSSQL to MySQL once your MySQL db is set up, or writing all the php code from scratch (PEAR libraries would help speed up the process, but now you bring in the OOP learning curve).
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