Re: Adding Content Management to live site

Hi, Since you want to tightly integrate into your exisiting environment, my guess is that you'll have to custom build something... however, it doesn't have to complex. For example, you could let them still upload the articles in the existing fashion (or through an upload form) into a directory. The index page could dig down through the directory(ies) and: - compile a link list of the most recent 10 articles - grab the first 30 words, or 500 characters of each article and display "more" links - break the list of files into categories, based on file naming conventions or directory structure - etc etc It's pretty easy stuff... all based on the structure of your files and directories... Certainly wouldn't warrant the investment of time in learning/adapting a new CMS. Start by getting your hands dirty with things like listing all files within a directory, sorting them by date, then reading the contents of somes file into a variable, trimming it to 30 words or whatever. If you get stuck, I'm sure plenty of us can help with specific questions. Justin on 24/10/02 2:56 PM, Ashley M. Kirchner (ashley@pcraft.com) wrote: > > I need to add some type of Content Management System to an already existing > site. All my client wants to be able to do is adding new articles every week, > and have the system update the main (index) page with those articles (adding > excerpts and keep a list of published articles.) The criteria is that the > current index page has to stay the way it is now, just the management has to > be > somewhat automated. Right now everything is being done manually, every > article > manually linked in the index page and the little excerpts written out by hand. > > Can anyone suggest a CMS program that I can feed the current page to and > have it work without having to rewrite the whole site into the CMS program? > > -- > H | I haven't lost my mind; it's backed up on tape somewhere. > +-------------------------------------------------------------------- > Ashley M. Kirchner <mailto:ashley@pcraft.com> . > 303.442.6410 x130 > IT Director / SysAdmin / WebSmith . 800.441.3873 x130 > Photo Craft Laboratories, Inc. . 3550 Arapahoe Ave. #6 > http://www.pcraft.com ..... . . . Boulder, CO 80303, > U.S.A. > > >