How would this work exactly..?

apollovega

Hey all again :-) I was just wondeirng on how this would go... I want to have someone update a site of mine with 1) News (have this part figured out already) 2) to be able to make new pages and edit the already existing pages, but without giving them full access to my pages.. I want them to just be able to edit the text and such.. But not the layout.

Can anyone point me in the right direction? Thanks everyone!

eoghain

I'd recommend that you store your data (news text) in a database and the templates (html) that are used to display that data in files on your server. Then you can just build a page that allows someone to add/update the data but not touch the templates.

If you want someone to be able to add new templates then you can store that information in the database as well, but only give them the ability to add, not update.

apollovega

Hey thanks for the response, ;-). would there be a script that I could use to achieve this, or would I have to do this myself..? :-/ Thanks!

eoghain

There are many, many ways to do this. Check out the articles here on PHPBuilder for ideas. As for templates I've been working with Smarty lately and really like it's power.

apollovega

Wow this is so hard.... Is there any easier more direct approach?

I mean, I checked out like 6 or 7 template engines, and I got lost on every single one..

All I want to do is have some sort of News script active.. Where I put an include statement where I want the data to change. Then log in to an admin panel of some sort, edit a file, and then have it change.. You know what I mean?

Think of a basic news script. You add a few lines of text on the layout page of your site, you then log into somewhere and goto something like "add more news". You go in there, add whatever text you want, and then reload the layout page.. And Viola, it's changed. I want to do that, cept, want to have it included on every page of my site.. And then in the admin panel, have the option to edit the data of all the pages (but not the main layout data). Then be able to change what I see fit (or have others do the same) for any of the pages yet still keeping the basic layout page not being touched.
Is there any way to do this? I can't seem to get a good google search going.

Any help would be appreciated, and thanks for the reply :-D.
If you don't get what I mean, I'd be more than happy to give you another example..

eoghain

You are just going to have to go look for a content management system. That is what you are looking for. I don't have any recommendations for you though.