Archive System

[kamy99]

Hi all:

I've just been contacted by a local newspaper to create a website for them. 😃
Everything is fine, except they need an archive system.
Here's a clearer view:

The site gets updated once a week. They have 8 categories (ie 8 articles), each article is in pdf format. Once the files for the week 2 have been uploaded/created, they want the articles from week 1 to be available in the archives. Once week 3 has been done, week 1 and 2 would be in the archive.......
Platform: PHP4, Apache, mySQL.

Any hints, tips, websites, tutorials.... is greatly appreciated.

Thanx
Kamran

[theeper]

I am sure there are some scripts available on the net somewhere that you can D/L. If you decide to write the system yourself, I would consider doing it like this ..

Create a script to load your articles through an HTML form.
Create a template script to display the articles.
Assign an ID number to the article that specifies where it is displayed within the template.
Have your template pull the most recent article from the DB that matches the ID number for a certain location in your template.

You will need to make some admin scripts that allow you to browse through your archives and search/edit etc.

[theeper]

Also, if you are using PDFs, you may wanna look into FDF
http://www.php.net/manual/en/ref.fdf.php