Re: lock web page when editing

Hey thanks guys I think I've decided on locking it cuz I don't want multiple people to be editing and then having them click "save" and say "sorry all the work you just did can't be used". I'm going to just put a 10 minute limit and have a status like "please wait ... bob has been editing for 4:39 minutes" Joe Kaiping wrote: > Another possibility: > > 1. keep track of the last modification time for that page when a user > requests to start editing the page > > 2. lock the page only immediately before the script does the write and then > unlock it immediately after. (that way a file never is left locked) > > 3. don't allow the write to happen if the last modification time is > different from the time when the user started applying edits. (If it's > different then that means there was an update since that user started > applying her edits. If that's the case, you would prompt the current user > that there has been an update since she started making the changes and that > she needs to reload the page being modified to before she can apply those > changes.) > > --- > > And yet another approach is to put the pages (if just files) into CVS and > have the content management scripts be a UI to the CVS commands used to > manage those files. > > I've implemented this approach for a customer and it works nicely. CVS > allows locking or merging options depending on how strict you want to be. > > If curious about CVS, check out http://www.cvshome.org/. > > -Joe > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Bob [mailto:whyisityou2@yahoo.com] > > Sent: Saturday, September 29, 2001 2:28 PM > > To: php-general@lists.php.net > > Subject: [PHP] lock web page when editing > > > > > > hi > > > > just seeing how everyone would approach this problem. > > > > i'm building a content management system and many people can > > edit a web > > page. if someone clicks on "edit" for a web page then i want to lock > > that page and not allow anyone else to "edit" the same page until the > > first person is done. how would i be able to tell if that > > first person > > is still editing or they have left??? if they close the browser then > > the web page would be locked forever. how do i get around that? > > > > > > > > _________________________________________________________ > > Do You Yahoo!? > > Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com > > > > > > -- > > 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 > > _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com