It has been a vision of mine for many years now to evolve my site into something that has something of value, more than just a few pages with some images to show of what I can do, but something that will not only provide people with information about me, my skills and my current activities and also gives the visitor a reason to come back, and I guess some sort of ‘service’.

A lot of the time the vision was just out of reach, marred by the lack of programming skills on my part, whenever an idea came into my head I was unable to put code to server and get something working.

Well all that is changing, with age and perseverance comes PHP knowledge, and with more age comes OO PHP knowledge.

Following on from the design update a few months ago and the introduction of the events system I have almost completed the implementation and rollout of a login system which is going to be the foundation for the following things:

Visitors will be able to signup and access other areas of the site, and over time you will be able to do extra things such as signup for event alerts and get an email when an event is a week away, and many other things that I plan to complete in the near future. You can sign up for one right now if you like, but there is very little ‘new features’.

It’s now been integrated into my administration system, if you have an admin account you will be able to access the backend management system that I have made for my site (although that only really affects me).

The same system will be tied into the “Client” section of the site, which is also under development and about 80% complete, this will not really affect many people, but is also part of my vision of allowing people I take photos for to login and see the “Shoot” that was taken, review the photos and select what ones they want to download. Based on the ones selected they will then be able to download a zip file of the original images, or alternatively just download them all.

And the good thing is that all this is that I can use the OO foundation that I have built in my final year project, as well as other elements that I have built.

What could have been, has become…