suppose you've designed a 90% static page for a client. that client could benefit from the ability to update one or two things on a "special events" page. how might you build this so that the user could do such an update w/ a guaranteed inability to destroy any of the rest of the page.
from my beginner's understanding and limited experience developing my own PHP scripts from scratch, here's what i envision that i'd need:
1) a hidden Admin login page
2)an administration interface in which an image could be uploaded, and a predetermined block of text could be modified. from this site administrator's viewpoint (the site owner doing the update), he will be able to browse his hard drive for the file to upload, select the file, upload the file (a graphical ad for upcoming events at his niteclub), and he will be able to enter text specific to that special event, which will go into that predetermined text block.
3) a script which would take that uploaded image and place it in a public viewable page, along w/ that block of text submitted by the site owner. this would either over-write any previously uploaded image & text, or probably more likely, it would simply replace the old image and text-block, and the previous items would remain unused on the server.
that's all i think i'd need. my guess is that it is probably a good bit more complicated than that on my development end, but maybe not.
how do you suggest i approach this simple app? maybe something exists already? i want to write it myself because i need the practice, but i wouldn't mind a little help w/ some ideas on how to get started, and also advice on if it is a feasible way to handle this task. the idea is so the site owner need not call on anyone for help on this simple task, yet he need not learn about FTP and HTML editing.
thanks!
