Posted by Robert Frost-Bridges on 07/24/05 19:16

Jim Royal wrote:

[...]
>
> The issue is coming up with a simple mechanism that allows a
> non-HTML-savvy person to make these small changes. This is a situation
> where a full-blown publishing engine is overkill.

Write out the data from a mysql database via php. If you look at the address
in my sig, the news items on the home page are done this way. A
non-HTML-savvy friend of mine logs in to an admin site where he can type
into <input>'s and <textarea>'s. When he clicks 'Send' the db is updated
and thus the page. The relevant php is merely slotted in to the html of the
site preserving the original styling (such as it is :-P ). It's actually
slowly built up to a situation where he can now easily update most of the
site without my intervention.
hth


regards,
--
Robert
http://brightonfixedodds.net

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