How to build an online news platform using PHP and Typecho

How to use PHP and Typecho to build an online news platform

Introduction:
With the rapid development of the Internet, news platforms have become an important channel for people to obtain information and communicate. This article will introduce how to use PHP and Typecho to build a simple online news platform, and provide code examples.

1. Install Typecho
Typecho is an open source blog system based on PHP and MySQL, which is very suitable for building a lightweight online news platform. Before we begin, we need to download and install Typecho.

1. Download Typecho
   Open the official Typecho website (https://typecho.org/), enter the download page, and select a suitable version to download.
2. Extract and move the files
   Extract the downloaded Typecho compressed package and move all the files to the directory where you plan to build the news platform.
3. Configuring the database
   Open this directory in the browser and configure the database according to the Typecho installation guide. Enter the database user name, password, database name and other information to complete the database configuration.
4. Configure administrator account
   In the installation guide, set the administrator account and password for the Typecho backend.
5. Complete installation
   In the last step of the installation guide, click the "Go to type backend" button to enter the backend management interface of the news platform.

2. Create news classifications
In news platforms, news is usually classified according to different topics or categories. We need to create the corresponding news category first.

1. Login to the backend
   Open the Typecho backend management interface and enter the administrator account and password you just set to log in.
2. Enter category settings
   Select "Console" in the navigation bar, and then click "Write Article".
3. Create Category
   In the article writing interface, find the "Category" column, click the drop-down box and select "Category".
4. Add Category
   Click "Add Category" and enter the name of the news category.
5. Complete the classification settings
   Click the "Save Draft" button in the upper right corner to save the news classification settings.

3. Publish news
We have created news categories, and the next step is to publish news. In Typecho, news is published in the form of articles.

1. Write News
   In the navigation bar of the background management interface, select "Console" and then click "Write Article".
2. Enter news content
   In the article writing interface, fill in the title, content and other information of the news. Select the appropriate news classification and options such as whether to publish or not.
3. Publish News
   Click the "Publish" button in the upper right corner to publish the news to the news platform.

4. Display the news list
On the news platform, we need to display the news list so that users can browse and read different news.

1. Home Page Template
   In Typecho's file management interface, open the folder of the current theme and edit the "index.php" file.
2. Get the news list
   In the "index.php" file, use the function provided by Typecho$this->widget('Widget_Archive@index', 'pageSize=10&type=post') ; to get the news list and define 10 news items to be displayed on each page.
3. Display the news list
   Use Typecho's functionwhile($this->next()):Traverse the news list, and then use $this->title and $this->permalink()Get the title and link of the news respectively and display them on the page.

5. Display news details
When the user clicks on a piece of news in the news list, we need to display the detailed content of the news.

1. News details page template
   In the file management interface of Typecho, open the folder of the current theme, copy the "index.php" file, and rename it to "single.php".
2. Get news details
   In the "single.php" file, use the function provided by Typecho echo $this->content;You can get and display the detailed content of the news.
3. Connect to the news details page
   In the display of the news list, the title of the news needs to set a link to point to the news details page. We can specify the link using the function $this->permalink().

6. Summary
Through the above steps, we successfully built a simple online news platform using PHP and Typecho. We learned how to install Typecho, create news categories, publish news, display news lists and news details, and provided corresponding code examples. I hope this article can provide you with some help in building your own online news platform.

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