stand-alone admin code to module admin

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I have some relatively simple components I use on some web sites. Front-end is simply a list of information, extracted from a data table and formatted nicely. Nothing the front-end can do but view. The back-end lists more or less the same info (with less detail) but provides a link to an editing page where the information for a given row can be edited or the row deleted. An "add" link also exists on the admin page.

I've done lots of these in PHP, mostly using some of the code generation capabilities built into Dreamweaver (session control, login enforcement, table displays in a selectable number of rows per page). What I'd like to do is take the core concepts of this code and implement something like it as a CMSMS module. That'd provide integrated management. The display side could still just be a tag in a page, for my needs at least.

I've taken a quick peek at the skeleton code, but wonder if there is any tutorial or similar on getting started with building modules, especially for the programming-literate but overworked.