Throughout my work career or university time, I didn’t get a chance to learn PHP and SQL, so to teach myself them I decided to develop a blog system over a few months.

The system as it stands now isn’t finished, but a lot of the core features are coded: writing, editing and deleting posts, comments and categories are there – including an admin backend with some simple templating. RSS is one of the more obvious features that are missing.

Doing this gave me a good grounding in PHP and MySQL, and I may come back to it if I need a simpler blog system than the more complicated ones out there – if I need to integrate or start from the ground up.

If you wish to see it in action, there is a sample test of it – with posts from my travel blog within and the same design quickly put together. You can visit this test instance here.