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Posted by Dotan Cohen on 07/29/05 09:51
On 7/29/05, Bob Stia <rnr@sanctum.com> wrote:
> Hello PHP list
>
> First allow me to apologize if this is the wrong place for this and
> direct me to the proper place. (be nice now!)
>
> I know nothing about PHP and have read at least 100 faqs and googled for
> hours. I don't even know some of the basics.
>
> Allow me to explain. I am the webmaster for a small web site for a
> Florida car club. The members have been asking if they could post info
> about events, communicate community wide, maybe post their own
> Classified ads, etc,
>
> I would like to comply with their wishes for an email/blog kind of thing
> but don't have the foggiest notion where to begin. The googling/faq's
> don't help me a bit and appears to be pretty complicated. I don't even
> know the basics. I really have no desire to go into a steep learning
> curve to accomplish what should be a pretty simple thing. I need simple
> and easy.
>
> I have composed in straight html (not that much,but enough) and with
> several GUI's. (all open source Linux based) I compose on my system and
> then simply upload to the site with FTP. I have found a few PHP
> packages but are not sure what they do. They require PHP, MySQL or
> Postgres, and Apache. Do I really need to install Apache? (The site is
> hosted by a commercial remote ISP as a courtesy/good will thing and I
> think they support PHP but do not wish to place any burden on them to
> support the site) Do I really need a data base?
>
> Please be patient and point the old guy in the right direction.
>
> Thanks,
> Bob S.
>
Try googleing for wiki software. The software that runs wikipedia is:
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Main_Page
Dotan Cohen
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