posting to a page and makeing it stay there

shawnhbk

ok guys I been trying to figure this out for a while now i did research on google and can't find nothing what i want to do is use a form to post news to a page but i want it to edit the page and make it stay there can anyone help me?
ok let me try to explain you know how normally when you want to add news to a page you have to go in and change the pages html i want to make this simplier for myself by building a form that i go to whenever I want to update the page without loging into to my ftp and changing the html to update the page

Elizabeth

Well... only because you're running a Shawn Michaels website will I help you 😃 He's getting up there in years, but hey, aren't we all... he is still a hottie.

Are you using PHP/MySQL on your site now? Do you keep news articles in a database? You could easily write a form that would save your info in a database and then you could reference them as needed and keep an ongoing archive for your website users. If you're not doing this now, you could possibly just use includes to show the article at hand. I would personally recommend keeping your articles and newsworthy events in a database so your users will have something to reference and search on... and you can add new articles to your site very easily.

hth & good luck with the site. Go Heartbreak Kid! 🙂

-Elizabeth

shawnhbk

thanks for helping me, right now I don't want to use a database because i'm just starting to learn php and I want to keep things as simple as possible.

BuzzLY

In my opinion, learning MySQL goes hand in hand with learning PHP. If you learn the two together, it will be much easier than trying to learn one then the other.

I recommend you get your hands on a copy of Sams Teach Yourself PHP, MySQL and Apache in 24 Hours. It's a good book that will teach you the basics, and get you on the road to doing what you want to do.

The only other way to do what you are asking is to use files to store your articles. In my opinion, that is not the best way, and using MySQL is just about as easy to learn as PHP file access commands. Plus, you'll have the ability to store as many articles as you want, and make them searchable, as Zabby has mentioned.