PHPHP: The PHP Homepage Project

PHPHP is a framework in PHP to generate a homepage (or any other kind of web page with -mostly- static content) quickly and easily. The only requirements are a web server with PHP support (everybody has this nowadays), basic HTML knowledge and the ability to read a short README file (or this web page).

That's it.

Note: PHPHP is in no way affiliated with the PHP Group or the PHP project itself.
It just uses PHP as a programming language.

PHPHP does all the dirty work.

• generating a common page header and footer,
• generating dynamic page menus (this is configurable),
• reading the current page title out of the menu (instead of having to specify the title in the menu, and in the TITLE tag, AND in a header tag),
• offering short cuts to repeated links, text, or paragraphs,
• generating lists of files and lists of directories with nice icons e.g. for downloading,
• automatically displaying sizes of images or titles of linked HTML files as links,
• ... and much more.

PHPHP is EASY, yet powerful.

Right-click on your browser window (this page) and select "View source". Then compare that to the real source code of the PHP page at this page. You will probably be confused by the first.

The point is that you don't see any of that in the second :-), except for your actual content and some markup. The only thing PHPHP is the fist line. Everything around the content - structure, pages, titles, links, ... is automatically generated.

That's the nice thing about it.

PHPHP is widely used.

Well, as much as you can say for a private project that hasn't been around in the public too long. :-) But it's been adopted locally ... and I'm running quite a few sites with it. For example, my sites running PHPHP (slightly modified in some cases):

• This site (duh!),
• Mitfahrzentrale.AG - online car sharing service, (template enabled version)
• TUHH Dormitory Network
• TUHH Materialsammlung
• TUHH AStA

• Bundesjugendfestival
• http://www.et1.tu-harburg.de
• http://www.terhaseborg.de
• http://www.terhaseborg.com
• http://www.firstbaptistchurch.de
• http://www.oncken-gemeinde.de
• http://www.tet.tu-harburg.de

There are more, but they haven't told me yet. I also know of several people using PHPHP (or derived versions) for their internal pages.