Whilst holidaying in Wales last year, my wife and I realized that we didn??™t actually know the kid-friendly
places to go to whilst we were there. A community website where parents could let each other know about
which places were pro-child would be very useful to the parents out there. Let??™s build one called Places to take
the kids!
Building such a community website, requires a lot of time and effort and it will be tempting to take the
easy road towards intermingled PHP and HTML. We expect our website to be a key resource for many years
and following good software engineering principles now will pay off many times over the lifetime of the
project. The Zend Framework??™s MVC system will help us to do things the right way. There is even a side
benefit of being quicker as we can take advantage of the simplicity and convention over configuration
principles to ensure that our code is easy to write and refactor.
Before we dive right in and build the basic website, we will first focus on what we intend to build and the
features it will need. We will then be able to set up an initial database and code the first pages.
3.1 Initial planning of a website
Obviously, we can??™t build a website without some sort of specification. Well, we could, but we are
professionals! Rather than write a whole specification that will take up an entire chapter, we will use Agile
web development techniques to design (and refactor) as we go along using user stories to sort out the next bit
of our site.
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