Creating a script that creates new webpages into a folder after approval

mosey

I am thinking of creating a script (since I haven't found one yet - not sure what keyword to use) whereby a user fills in a form with eg.

Username
Email
Background color

and submits it. This is added to a 'pending' approval list where the admin can click 'ok' (or delete if appropriate) and this results in a new webpage created in afolder using the username as the title
eg. username.php

and the content is defined by default from a 'default' template, with eg. just one variable - the background colour (if more then change later)

Ideally it would then email the user from a 'default email template' which includes the details of the new page

eg.
Dear $username
Your new page is at $username.php

Regards
Admin Team at SiteXYZ.

On a more advanced level, it might even be possible to allow passwords so the user can edit variables such as background colour or email addresses.

Does anyone know of an existing script that does this? If not, what suggestions do you have to get started? (preferably flat file rather than database driven)

Thanks in advance!
Mosey

thorpe

preferably flat file rather than database driven

this whole concept would be easy to achieve with a db. just make a template engine, design some templates, and store your data in a db. this would give the impression of creating a webpage for each user.

of course it could be done using a flat file system, just a bit more work IMO. if you want to go the flat file route, you would need to take a look at the filesystem functions.

mosey

Hi Thorpe,
Thanks very much for your prompt reply! I found it very useful indeed esp. for a future idea (of user webpages - thank you! 😃), but suppose I should clarify the reason why I'd like to create the new page in this particular instance. I'd like to offer a free 'service' to members of a particular community site which would allow them to include into their page eg. an iframe which would load their relevant userpage and allow visitors to rate their page.

Its something rather similar to: http://easyrate.talkaboutphp.com/ but I'd like to take it a step further where possible to allow more customisation by the user.

Seeing as Easyrate has just the one page but it can apply to many different sites I'd be interested in learning more about how this can be achieved as well.

Thanks again for your time 🙂