Adding administration to your scripts

I wanted to ask those of you who have published your own scripts. Do you generally add some kind of administrative functionality to your scripts? Lots of scripts would do better with such functions. Like a guestbook or a poll system. They basicly work without one but I wouldn't even consider putting a guestbook on my site that would give me the possibility to remove posts from it.

Definately.

It can really make ppl use your script, cause they dont need any technical knowledge to work with your script.

btw I guess it's Lounge's topic.I am gonna move it.

JD

Lounge Topic it is ... then ... Sorry for that, I struggled between the two. Came up fliping a coin for it

Anyway, yeah I suppose it would make their lifes easier but the problem with it is that Admin sections are very site specific and they are usually a bunch of functionalities put together. So it would be very hard to device an admin extremely portable to different enviroments. That's the biggest problem. After all, mostly admin sections exist only to handle the data used on the actual site.

Any suggestions on how to go about this problem?

Yeah true.

But there is some way around atleast.

Let say your script would be generally using some config file which would decide the way script operates.

Mine is something like

$conf['name'] = 'this';
$conf['db'] = 'that';

I guess a generalised class is already present that would read this values and put it up nicely.

But apart from that,all the admin task that are particular to application would need to be handled separately. no options here !!

JD