File Writers

[/|G3NT42]

Hello everyone, I'm currently working on a system for our article writers.

This system will allow the writers to write their articles... upload them to the server... and then immediatley post that article to a webpage...

Before I went creating and writing a bunch of code to do this I figured I would ask around if there is already a process in-use for this sort of thing..

They will need to have USERNAMES/PASSWORDS also

I kno I could make it happen if I replace the article before it
(having them save the file with the same name everytime) but in order to save all the articles I don't see that way working..

plz everyone ideas are helpful....this is sorta on a time crunch. so quick responses are deeply appreciated.

thank you:confused:

[Major Payne]

Would using a blog service or Wordpress work for you?

Ron

[/|G3NT42]

Would using a blog service or Wordpress work for you?

Ron

I'm not sure if blogs are goin to work... I'd like to get into better details but i'm afraid I cannot just yet... Could you explain Wordpress to me alil...

basically this needs to work almost like a forum... I would like to be able to take any .txt, .word, ect file and have it posted to say a Iframe so that there would be articles on top of one another...

______
article1|
article2|
article3|
______| somthing like that<


the purpose being so that Article writers... inexperienced with coding can FTP or upload there files to a directory. and Then those files are Immediatley put into this IFrame or watever.... so it looks like the article writers just came to the site and wrote there article on the frontpage...

[sae]

well, you will have to somehow convert the document (Word, Word Perfect, plain text) to html. Then I would suggest you place the article into a database and then you can have code to show the top X number of articles on the site

[Major Payne]

This site will describe WordPress much better then I ever could:

WordPress (http://codex.wordpress.org/Main_Page)

Maybe this will be of interest to you for client and personal use:

http://www.webpageaccess.com/

Ron

[ray326]

What you're looking for is a Content Management System (CMS) of which blogs like Wordpress are one form. http://opensourcecms.com is a handy place to review a wide range of CMSs based on a particular foundation (PHP/MySQL).