RE: [PHP] Dynamic built web pages administration

Hi, I am also working on a project similar like this. I am creating a News Module which will allow user to create their own pages and post it on web with images chosen. Edit option also will be given to edit the content. I thought of following options. Please note that I am not always sticking to database option. 1. Display templates (may be according to Theme / Layout) to select and display the form to fill up the content (database option can be implemented). For non IT user this will be the simplest form and some sort of customization is also possible by giving options like to choose color, bold, style etc. 2.Give option something similar to Yahoo's Geocities. (please go to http://geocities.yahoo.com - you may need to register). They have developed something like PageBuilder, which is nothing but the applet I believe. Where complete customize page can be created and loaded on the web. Database option will be tedious. 3. OR as you said user can have his own page but then he has to mark it for ' edit content' purpose. If the user is using Dreamweaver then you do not worry, it has a option like ' Create template' option and user can mark the area as 'Editable'. I am also interested in exploring more about it specially option 2, How to do it and whether it will be very complicated ? If you know any good portal which has something like Yahoo! Page Builder, please let me know. manisha At 11:44 AM 4/17/01 -0400, Romulo Roberto Pereira wrote:

dear Plutark, Thank you for your input. But, let's say that I have the following: <span class="textdisplayplain"> some text some text some text some text some text some text some text some text some text some text some text some text some text some text some text some text some text some text <b>some text</b> some text some text some text some text some text some text some text some text some text some text some text some text </span> <br><br> <span class="textdisplayplain"> some text some text some text some text some text some text some text some text some text some text some text some text some text some text some text some text some text some text <b>some text</b> some text some text some text some text some text some text some text some text some text some text some text some text </span> My user don't know html. At all... So how do I do to create an edit admin that let him only modify the text? I did something like this: <span class="textdisplayplain"> <!-- text entry start --> some text some text some text some text some text some text some text some text some text some text some text some text some text some text some text some text some text some text <b>some text</b> some text some text some text some text some text some text some text some text some text some text some text some text <!-- text entry end --> </span> <br><br> <span class="textdisplayplain"> <!-- text entry start --> some text some text some text some text some text some text some text some text some text some text some text some text some text some text some text some text some text some text <b>some text</b> some text some text some text some text some text some text some text some text some text some text some text some text <!-- text entry end --> </span> It works fine, because I identify the edit areas by the comment tags. The problem with this is that if I put an option like Add New Page to the admin system, the user would have to surround the tags with the comments, I mean, he would have to edit the HTML. Pretty toff thing!!! Jesus!! Thank you, Rom -----Original Message----- From: Plutarck [mailto:aemuli@spamclause-yahoo.com] Sent: Tuesday, April 17, 2001 10:25 AM To: php-general@lists.php.net Subject: Re: [PHP] Dynamic built web pages administration If you are storing the content in a database, your job is a ton easier. Just add an edit link on the page you want people to be able to edit. It will link over to an edit page with the value of the current page sent in the URL via get. Get the content from the database pointed to by the url, and stick it in a variable. On the edit page have a text area. Set the "value" to the content the person can edit. When someone clicks submit, just take the content they submit and stuff it into the database using UPDATE. Of course you will need to do safety features like stripslashes() or the special character functions before storing the data, just to be safe. You will also want to have the option only available for registered users, and you probably want to limit it to users you know won't be malicious. There are many little tricks like using a little piece of javascript to execute a file on the hard drive that shouldn't be executed, malicious ActiveX controls, java applets, etc, that you don't want users writing to the page. But for administration used by only trusted people, it's actually pretty simple to put together. For use by people who aren't trusted... -- Plutarck Should be working on something... ..but forgot what it was. ""Romulo Roberto Pereira"" <rpereira@vox2vox.com> wrote in message news:NEBBJPDFMLJANHOIJNHOCEKDCEAA.rpereira@vox2vox.com... Hello, I was wondering if anybody have developed something related to dynamic web pages building and administration. I need to store the content of the site in the database and later as the user navigate, mount the content using templates. This part is easy, since PHP is very powerfull in this area. My problem would be to let the user modify the actual page content... how? any ideas? TIA, Rom -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-general-unsubscribe@lists.php.net For additional commands, e-mail: php-general-help@lists.php.net To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php-list-admin@lists.php.net -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-general-unsubscribe@lists.php.net For additional commands, e-mail: php-general-help@lists.php.net To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php-list-admin@lists.php.net -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-general-unsubscribe@lists.php.net For additional commands, e-mail: php-general-help@lists.php.net To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php-list-admin@lists.php.net