Wrox Content Management Integration with CSS

[nick_kirby]

Hello all, I have written (well, borrowed) the code for a basic CMS from wrox press. It works really very well as a standalone device, so I tried to integrate it into my website.

Now, I am using a CSS sheet to hang various things together, and this is cauing problems for some aspects of this CMS.

Basically, I have the CMS front end appear inside of the main column of my site - www.niknet.homeip.net (articles) and have tried to fix most of the links using the excellent advice given to me by frequenters of this forum. I am, however, having one or two problems.

The logout function does not work. Clicking th hyperlink coded thus

[ echo ' | <a href="articles/transact-user.php?action=Logout">Log out</a>'; ]

drops completely out of the CMS and my site, as it were. It certainly doesn't activate the expected "return to index" function I expect it to.

Secondly, and more worryingly, the fabulous time saver that automates all the content finding and what not of the site

<?php
if (!isset($GET['content']) || $GET['content'] == "") { $content = "build"; } else { $content = $_GET['content']; }
include "comps/$content.php";
?>

is breaking the returning mysql queries, as it is appending .php to them. Is there a workaround for that one line that queries the mysql db? This output is part of reviewarticles.php.

It's rock and a hard place. I seem to be able to have a working CMS but one without site integration, and I don't know enough to know how to fix these occasional errors.

If any one could help, I would be extremely grateful.

Nick

[kkobashi]

I don't think there will be many to answer your question because this is a specific implementation detail that others likely will not have the code for. Besides, I think you will find very few people using the Wrox CMS. If I recall, Wrox is a publishing company and no longer exists (I think they were bought out by APress). You may want to visit the APress site and see if someone there could there could assist you (including the original author of the book).

I know this doesnt' help you much but I would like to make a suggestion if I may ... why not choose to use an already stable product like PhpNuke, Drupal, or some other CMS where it is constantly being supported, rather than using a book example? Most of the time, book examples are not complete products, rather sample applications to teach. As a PHP developer, I love to tinker and write my own code. But when it comes to focusing on the content, rather than the underlying application, I'd rather spend my time writing content and focusing on the business side of things.

You will find the support community to be much more better and more people using those CMS's - and thus a better chance of getting problems solved.

Why re-invent the wheel?