Do you program your own software/sites, or do you buy it all?

[MrMax]

I buy all my web software and just tweak it a little for what I need.
I wish I could program. That would be great to have an idea and just build it, instead of having to find a package or hire a programmer.

Do you program yourself or just buy your software?

[Gaystoryman]

I buy all my web software and just tweak it a little for what I need.
I wish I could program. That would be great to have an idea and just build it, instead of having to find a package or hire a programmer.

Do you program yourself or just buy your software?

Oh God, I have enough troubles just using the out of the box stuff, write my own? I'd break the internet. lol
I'll admit though, I like to try and tweak things, to make them fit, but I am all thumbs when it comes to growing plants, and programming. I think I am the only one who did the 5 minute install of wordpress and wound up taking a whole day :bang: and then still got it wrong :bang::bang:

[InsaneSimon]

A mix. For example I bought NATS but I wrote the code for my custom CMS.

[gaybucks_chip]

We use NATS (though not sure we'd make that decision again if we had it to do over), and x-cart for our webstore, but our CMS and much of the other back-end systems that run our company are custom scripts.

I did some coding 25 years ago but now I'm content to let someone else do it who is more qualified. I was always an "it'll do" coder. We've had mixed luck hiring programmers but I'm hopeful that we've got some good people to work with now. :)

[nickbaer]

I do my own PHP/SQL, but my sites are simple catalog sites, that just drive traffic to the VOD or Amazon portal where the titles are VOD'd or sold as DVD.

I started out by copying the layout of a famous site, then added here and added there... like new releases (sort the table upside down and print the 6 newest titles), or newest models (same thing, except parse the "stars").

Model's pics are named exactly as they are spelled in the SQL table, so it does a if file_exists then print the "img src=path.modelname.jpg"...

I started writing a simple paysite, where the script looks for files in a dir (read_dir) and builds the links based on them being present, for the member to click and view.

But I think I have partnered with another firm (found here of course) that will do a bigger and more complicated version of that.

The hard coding I've done is to use the same title SQL table and the model SQL table to handle record keeping reports, and accounting/tracking of sales.

I wrote my first COBOL pgm in 1972, and first BASIC in 1979, and PHP is just BASIC with a couple of extra purposes.