very simple one line cms?
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i need to have a page on a clients site that has a competition question that
changes weekly.
they need to be able to change the question through some kind of admin page
(i was going to make a separate page that was password protected for this
purpose).
now i am thinking using MySQL etc will be like using a sledghammer to crack
a nut open, and am wondering if there is some simpler way of implementing
this using maybe basic PHP and an external text file or something? or maybe
i dont even require PHP?
any ideas appreciated.
thanks
Perttu Pulkkinen
> hi all
> i need to have a page on a clients site that has a competition question
that
> changes weekly.
If its okay, why not include a textfile inside pre-tags or you can also put
string trough this kind of php-function
function html_inclusion($file)
{
- open that file into string
- put string trough htmlspecialchars (maybe do striptags first)
- str_replace \n with <br>
- echo that string
}
then they can use ftp to update that textfile
Gregory Toomey
I use www.mamboserver.com for my personal site (see signature).
Its a Content Management System based on PHP.
Mambo allows for website content to have a start date & end date. So a new
question would appear at the appropriate time
gtoomey
www.gregorytoomey.com
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i need a really simple form with one text field, when they hit submit it
publishes to the page...
thanks
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Steve
1 <1...@1.com> said:
> yup i do too, but its way too much just for this system.
> i need a really simple form with one text field, when they hit submit
> it publishes to the page...
> thanks
I would allow this form just to write to a text file, and the webpage can
just pull the content from the text file using PHP or server-side includes
or whatever you have at your disposal.
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Steve
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any pointers on how to accomplish this? i am a bit of a newbie as far as php
is concerned.
thanks
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Geoff Berrow
contained the following:
>hi all
>i need to have a page on a clients site that has a competition question that
>changes weekly.
>they need to be able to change the question through some kind of admin page
>(i was going to make a separate page that was password protected for this
>purpose).
>now i am thinking using MySQL etc will be like using a sledghammer to crack
>a nut open,
Maybe, but you could do other cool stuff like put in a load of
questions and having them change each week automatically. I've used a
database for a list of events and found it worth its weight in gold.
Set it and forget it. Of course you can charge the client for weekly
updates..:-)
But if you just want to write to a text file, I posted a script a few
days ago that allows you to do just that. You'll have to hack it a bit.
www.ckdog.co.uk/logger/display.php
To edit the file:
http://www.ckdog.co.uk/logger/editlog.php
Let me know if you want it.
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Toby Inkster
> i need to have a page on a clients site that has a competition question that
> changes weekly.
Do you also need to collect the answers to the competition? Or are those
collected by e-mail or something?
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BasherB
Hope it does.
PAGE 1
*************** ADDS NEW QUESTION FORM AND WRITES THE TO QUESTION.TXT
PAGE *********************
<?php
$filename = "question.txt";
$seperator = "/ENDOFLINE/";
if (isset ($_POST['Submit'])){
$new_question = sprintf ("%s$seperator\r\n%s$seperator\r\n",
addslashes($_POST['question']), addslashes($_POST['answer']));
if (!$handle = fopen($filename, "r+")){
echo "cannot open file to edit question";
exit;
}
fwrite ($handle, $new_question);
fclose ($handle);
header ("Location:viewquestion.php");
exit;
}
?>
<form action="<?php echo $_SERVER['PHP_SELF']; ?>"
method="post">question:<input name="question" type="text"><br>
answer:<input name="answer" type="text"><br>
<input name="Submit" type="submit" value="Submit">
</form>
PAGE 2
********* WILL PLACE ALL OF THE QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS INTO AN ARRAY
******
**** >SPLIT THEM UP INTO A QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS ARRAY IF YOU WISH<
******
<?php
$filename = "question.txt";
$seperator = "/ENDOFLINE/";
if (!$handle = fopen ($filename, "r")){
echo "cannot access question file";
exit;
}
$contents = fread ($handle, filesize ($filename));
fclose ($handle);
$all = explode ($seperator, $contents);
foreach ($all as $question){
echo stripslashes($question).'<br>';
}
?>
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undecided if this will be by email or not
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