Browser based Content Updates?

Anon

I want to build a really simple system for clients to add new press releases to their "in the news" page. This would have to change the titles and provide a way for the title to link to the full story.

I don't know much at all about PHP, so the only way I can think to do this is to have the browser insert the new press releases into a mysql database and have the "in the news" page pull from the database.

There has to be an easier way that doesn't involve a database. This is for very light use.

Any ideas?

Anon

use wddx. it is included with php but must be --enable-wddx 'd. There is an article on this site for the use of wddx.

Anon

How does wddx solve the local storage problem?

Anon

I don't know what wddx is and the article isn't helping.

There has to be several solutions to content updates. There was a guy on here a few months ago that built a browser-based publishing tool for reporters to submit stories to the CNN website. Where is that guy?

Anon

I only have two global vars in my project, userid and config. userid is supplied by the user, config is stored using wddx.
Here's how I do config:

// Load the data
touch("$configDir/config.xml");
$config = wddx_deserialize(implode("", file("$configDir/config.xml")));

// Save the data
unlink("$configDir/config.xml");
error_log(wddx_serialize_value($config, "MyApp Configuration"), 3, "$configDir/config.xml");

So config is an associative array stored as xml using the wddx dtd and it is stored on the server in a plain text file. I think this is what you are looking for.