How can I Create a CMS using php where end user doesn't have to know anything about database. Is that possible

Question

In genera sense if I create a CMS using php .Where I created and named the database in my localhost. Now if I or my clent upload the CMS in any server how will it work. because there is no database in that server.

And in my php code I wrote to create database. Now how can i create a CMS which can automatically create database and tables where client doesn't have to know about anything besides uploading the CMS.

Example: In the CMS there is a query saying (SELECT * FROM users). I named the table users which contains user information.

but If a client upload my CMS into his server how will it work. Does he have to go phpmyadmin and create a identical database like I created and named while developing the CMS.

Answer 1

You can create a php page that will execute some queries to create the database and tables.

• http://www.w3schools.com/sql/sql_create_db.asp
• http://www.w3schools.com/sql/sql_create_table.asp

But I think, it would be a good choice to ask your user to create a database(blank database) and provide the details of the hostname , database name , database username and database password , to your CMS system. So you could use this to execute the queries for creating the tables. I think, that's how most of the forums and CMS softwares do.