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smoker
08-10-2006, 12:06 PM
Does anyone know of a simple cms that will allow a client access to one page of their web site so they can add and edit news items and photographs ?
The only ones I've seen so far seem to have their own templates, but the client wants to use the existing page layout. Is this possible ?
Ray
PineSolPirate
08-10-2006, 12:15 PM
I've done something along the lines of creating two big HTML comments on the pages, "<!--- CONTENT START --->" and "<!--- CONTENT END --->". Then I make a page that authenticates the user, set a session var. Each page has a little chunk of code to check that, then if it's set it uses a regex to find the comments and rip out the middle stuff (the content) and put it in a nice TinyMCE editor, save works basically the same.
Not too much effort, not too "stable", but still usefull.
Also, most CMS's can be twisted to custom templates I believe, never tried it though.
bokeh
08-11-2006, 12:00 PM
I did that here (http://prueba.revistafoto.es/)! Check out the grey area in column 3. It was done with php and mysql and a simple php login. Is this the type of thing you are looking for? The older news items are displayed on another page (http://prueba.revistafoto.es/actualidad.php) with pagination.
worthyashes
08-14-2006, 05:13 AM
Macromedia's Contribute is very good, and has the bonus that you can lock'em out from the rest of the page so they can't break it!