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?
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Answer 1

I agree with Bart van Heukelom's answer, it's the most usual way of doing it.

The only other option would be to turn your CMS into a bunch of remote Web Services/scripts and external CSS/JS files that you host in one location only.

Then everyone using your CMS would connect to your central "CMS server" and all that would be on their (calling) server is a bunch of scripts to call your Web Services/scripts that do all the processing and output. If you went down this route you'd need to identify/authenticate each request so that you returned the corresponding data for the given CMS user.