looking for news program, but...

HiGhFLyEr · 09-30-2002, 10:13 AM

Hello everyone, first question on this board for me.

I have a problem (otherwise i wouldn' be writing this

)

I'v created a website for somebody with almost no knowledge of computers or internet whatsoever. As an author, he wants to submit columns on a regular basis (say twice a week, or whenever he feels for it). But since he knows sh*t about uploading data to a server (not that I'm that experienced, au contraire), I want to make things easy for him. Here 's what should happen:

- The guy writes a text in a form on a page only he has acces to.
- After he's done writing, he should be able to push a submit button to get the uploaded.

Pushing the submit button should execute some script that:
- copies a html-template, so that every column appears on a single/ separate page.
- creates a link to that new page at the top of the menubar.

Does anyone know if there is some script that has these functions? or can somebody tell me how I'd best get started? Or where to look for info?

The server the website runs on is an Apache, perl is installed and i have the possibility of running cgi-scripts and php.

(ps I don't think that a news program is the solution since it puts all of the articles on the same page)

HiGhFLyEr · 09-30-2002, 10:17 AM

Oh yes, i forgot to tell that i have no knowledge of programming languages whatsoever. Perl, cgi, php, it's al new to me

I'm learning though

the_Igel · 09-30-2002, 11:03 AM

Oh YeS mAn YoU gOt A pRoBlEm.

Sure none will write that code for you

.
But it's not that hard. Since you have come to this forum, you're on the right way. Now your path leads you to http://www.php.net/manual/
There you will get basic knowledge of PHP scripting language.
after you get the very basics, you should learn to handle variables from URL.
Then you will learn to create secure pages, making use of logins, passwords, html forms & POST method.

And after you learn all that and loads more and still get no idea, what to do, you will return here and ask more detailed questions.

No offense meant

. PHP isn't very hard (basically), so you'd better try a bit, and ask for details.

HiGhFLyEr · 09-30-2002, 11:10 AM