Best practice for making a preview system?

[JeePee]

Hi, i have been attempting to make a good preview system for my CMS and i have yet to find a way that works well and elegantly.

Is there a known "good practice" for this functionality?

I have tried two things so far:

• i wrote the article text to a xml file and dumped it together with the attached images in a temp dir. this became spaghetti code (it might not when i try it again with previous experience and OOP).

• The second thing i did was add a preview boolean to the article table but that doesn't work because when i edit an artiocle and preview it without submitting it again it stays in preview mode and as a result the article disapears from public.

I'll keep trying but Help is welcome.

[Jack_McSlay]

sorry, but I didn't get what you want. you might want to make things more clear in order to others to understand what you want.

because not everyone here knows what a CMS is (myself included) nor what makes a good preview system for it.

also, it helps to see the problematic parts of your code

[bogu]

Jack McSlay wrote:

because not everyone here knows what a CMS is (myself included)

CMS = Content management system

[JeePee]

Jack McSlay wrote:

sorry, but I didn't get what you want. you might want to make things more clear in order to others to understand what you want.

because not everyone here knows what a CMS is (myself included) nor what makes a good preview system for it.

also, it helps to see the problematic parts of your code

It's no so much of a technical coding issue, it's more of a code design issue, that's why i left the details out.

[thorpe]

I think you need to rethink how you implimented your second option. Personally, that is the approuch I would use.

but that doesn't work

Ask yourself why didn't it work?

A massive part of being a good programer is learning to think a problem through.