Re: templates and user "built" sites

> I don't know of anything off-hand. Try starting here: > > > http://www.hotscripts.com/PHP/Scripts_and_Programs/File_Manipulation/File_Management/ > > And poke around. There's one there at the bottom called 'Personal > Webspace' that sounds close. Thanks Brian, There wasn't anything there close to what I want. Let me try to explain one more time and maybe it will ring a bell with someone. User goes to website Fills out form including username and pass Pick from a couple of basic layouts. fills out form that would include things like: What title do you want for your web page? What keywords best describe your site? What is a description of your web page? Do you want a color for the background? What would you like in the first paragraph? Do You want links to other pages on here? next page What title do you want for your web page? ...... ....... After all that form filling crap I ideally would write an XML file (but I'll take anything if it is already done) that might look like this: <site user="username"> <template>basic_1.tpl</template> <headers> <title>My web Page</title> <keywords>bla, blah, blahbla</keywords> <description>My great web page</description> </headers> <body bgcolor="DCDCDC"> <main_heading>My Web Page</main_heading> <text1>This is a bunch of text</text1> <text2> </text2> <link1>About Me</link1> <link2> </link2> </body> ....... ....... Keep in mind the above info could be stored in a db, an XML file, A flat file that lists plain vars, associative arrays, or plain arrays. XML just seems an organized way to lay things out. At any rate that is off the top of my head. Once all this is saved in the user's $home dir in whatever format along with an index.php file I would then go to step two. Step two is that the original index.php (remember way back there in the first email) script that was already in the user's $home dir is looking for the above named file whenever it is called. Now it finds it, grabs the associated template (which only exists once) and parses the two together. Obviously not something that would make a true web "designer" ooooh and ahhhh but for a novice who doesn't know what an ftp client is it would be pretty handy. At any rate that is what I had in mind. -- Lewis Bergman Texas Communications 4309 Maple St. Abilene, TX 79602 915-695-6962