How to self-update PHP+MySQL CMS?

Question

I\'m writing a CMS on PHP+MySQL. I want it to be self-updatable (throw one click in admin panel). What are the best practices?
How to compare current version of cms and a ve

Answer 1

A slightly more experimental solution could be to use something like the phpsvnclient library.

With features:

• List all files in a given SVN repository directory
• Retrieve a given revision of a file
• Retrieve the log of changes made in a repository or in a given file between two revisions
• Get the repository latest revision

This way you can see if there are new files, removed files or updated files and only change those in your local application.

I recon this will be a little harder to implement, but the benefit would probably be that it is easier and quicker to add updates to your CMS.