Looking for a relatively simple code

[Bloodlvst]

Hi there, I'm working on my band's site and we have a nice layout. However, going into HTML and hardcoding updates and such isn't something my bandmates are that good at.

I'm wondering if anyone could provide / help with / point me in the right direction of making a simple script on the "backend" where we could log in, and put a news update in where it would pre-format the newspost and only show the first few then "archive" (loosely using that term) the rest.

Thanks for any assistance! 🙂

[sneakyimp]

The simplest thing from a programming perspective is to create an include file that defines all your news items in an array and then output it with a loop. You and your band mates could edit a file like this:

<?php
// this array defines the news
$news = array(
  0 => array("title", "url", "news text"),
  1 => array("Man Bites Dog", "http://k9news.com", "Today in Philadelphia a man bit a dog.  Now isn't that crazy?"),
  2 => array("Man Also Bites Cat", "http://feilinenews.com", "The man previously alleged to have bitten a dog in Philadelphia has now allegedly bitten a cat as well.  Surely this world is getting out of hand?")

);
?>

Such an array can be displayed in a variety of contexts.

However, my experience has been that bandmates are morons when it comes to programming stuff and cannot be trusted to avoid syntax errors so it sounds like you'll need to set up a form to enter news, a page to list all the news (which has links to 'archive' stuff) and also some way to extract the news on your website.

Sadly, this is going to require several scripts and probably a database.

Try googling maybe?
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=PHP+News+script&btnG=Google+Search