hey i'm planning on making a new blog page on my site. Generally i like to make things myself unless i can find an incredibly easy and free software to do it for me, anyhow any tips or things i need to remember when making a blog page? I'm planning to use PHP with a mysql database.
I'd recommend WordPress with Akismet to stop the spam (but there are other options too). A blog basically needs to be a list of posts with comments but the added bells and whistles that you get with MoveableType and WordPress make starting from scratch seem over the top. Depends on the value you put on your time I guess
hey man, don't reinvent the wheel - there are so many top-class blogging scripts out there - e.g. wordpress [free] and moveable type [paid]... if you want something really unique, maybe you can get wordpress and then modify it for your own needs...
If you decide to go ahead with making your own, remember the PHP security basics: *ALWAYS* escape/filter data coming from external sources. I find half a dozen sites every week that don't do it and end up being vulnerable to sql injection and XSS attacks. The benefit of using prebuilt blogging software is that they have a huge testbed, and any security holes become apparent quite fast.