[thelist] Client wants to update page content

[Richard McFarland]

I knew in advance this was the best solution, but was hoping <sigh> there
might be an easier approach. I have zero knowledge about this sort of thing
and no coding background (other than my own html dabblings). Time to start
learning something new, huh?

Thanks to everyone for their suggestions.

richard
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> From: "Nan Smith" <nansmith at heritageconcord.org>
> Reply-To: thelist at lists.evolt.org
> Date: Wed, 9 Oct 2002 13:01:36 -0400
> To: <thelist at lists.evolt.org>
> Subject: RE: [thelist] Client wants to update page content
>
> Do you have a database available to you? I have done this
> sort of thing lots of times for clients storing the info
> in a db. I create a form on the website that is not linked
> from anywhere, the client has to bookmark it, and using a
> username and password, they can add/delete/edit any item
> they want on a certain page. I did this for an artist's
> website where she lists the upcoming shows of her work at
> galleries, for a charity that lists who has donated money
> to them, and for a company that lists a photo and blurb
> about their employees, and the employees change from time
> to time, someone leaves, they hire someone new.
> It is pretty easy to do with php or asp.
> Nan
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: thelist-admin at lists.evolt.org
> [mailto:thelist-admin at lists.evolt.org]On Behalf Of
> David.Cantrell at Gunter.AF.mil
> Sent: Wednesday, October 09, 2002 12:49 PM
> To: thelist at lists.evolt.org
> Subject: RE: [thelist] Client wants to update page content
>
>
>> The owner/chef is eager to be able to update various
> pages (such as menu)
>> himself. He is not very tech-savvy, but doesn't want to
> have to pay me
>> forever to update frequently-changing data.
>
> XML, but sounds like he may not even be that proficient.
>
> Given the content, and the fact they probably will want to
> update more than
> just the menu, I'd look into a text-file solution.
>
> I would break each menu section into a separate text file,
> one item per
> line, then process them on the server as includes. In
> other words, include
> say a PHP file and have the PHP file pull the text
> contents and format them
> into the HTML.
>
> You could do this with the other sections as well, such as
> the Events, Wine
> List, etc.
>
> -dave
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