Re: New Site Rough

----- Original Message ----- From: "Joshua Brindle" <jbrindle@mail.snu.edu> To: "James Moore" <james@phpuk.org>; "Zak Greant" <zak@nucleus.com>; <php-qa@lists.php.net> Sent: Sunday, August 20, 2000 10:45 PM Subject: Re: [PHP-QA] New Site Rough > Maybe we could get a nice xml content system going so that it > > makes it easy to update content. > > Why not use a database backend (mysql?) and php templates? > i mean, this IS the php QA team :) > i've build a 100% tempated database driven site so that people who need to > edit webpages (it's a schoool, department heads and such) who also have no > clue what <br> means can do so and have no problems. Why wouldn't the same > work for us? it would also allow certain people to maintain all the page > content, without needing cvs access and things of that nature. CVS does have some strong advantages: - auto notification of changes - version control - no restrictive content authoring system needed - jalal and brendan were easily able to add content to the site without a great deal of effort. - zak