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WaynesWorld
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I acquired a website that was deleted by accident from my hosting company. Since then I've lost a critical feature for developing the site over again from scratch.

For example: http://www.mysite.com/admin used to pull up a php admin section that organized my entire site. The Header section would cross over to every page on my site, also I could create new pages in this "phantom php admin section". It had other features that helped like, the HTML from ALL pages would be listed here to edit and would autosave on that page and any change to the header would crossover the entire site.

I've searched the web, but have been unsuccessful on finding this database, script, or download... Can anybody point me into the right direction?
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Are you looking for a Content-Management-System like PHP-Nuke?
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I sure hope so... checking it out now.
TY Pat for your prompt response, and other suggestions r welcome
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I believe that you're right, still fooling w/ it.
BTW... Is PHPNuke recomended over Slash, PHPweblog, PHPSlash, Thatware, Sips, NewsPro, etc... ?
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I am not familiar with all the different flavours of the CMS - I've heard good things about typo3 though.
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if you read bugtraq you'll read a lot of _bad_ things about php-nuke as well. unless you want to overhaul or rewrite the SQL related code you may have more of a headache them you bargained ;)

if your not using SQL you are in the clear tho. however it may be a good idea to take a second look at the competition. the bugtraq articles:

http://www.securityfocus.net/archive/1/321181
http://www.securityfocus.net/archive/1/321313
http://www.securityfocus.net/archive/1/321358
http://www.securityfocus.net/archive/1/321828
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Post by WaynesWorld »

TY r337ard... I am actually using a plesk SQL database for our forums that are working working fine. Thanks man, chk'g out those articles now.

Later in Edit:
Doh! I think I will not be using this PHPNUKE... Thanks for the heads up.

Still working on a solution for my problem here.
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http://www.postnuke.com <-- a good spoff of PHPNuke
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Post by WaynesWorld »

Since I opened this post about 7 hr's ago, I have investigated all of your feedback. Unfortunately, my request doesn't appear to be any of these programs suggested... I'd like to put a twist on one of them and have it resolve my problem but they're close enuf for what I'm trying to do...

I am an admin for a website http://www.forbiddenninja.com that will have maybe 10 pages altogether excluding the forums... (members section, upcoming matches, history, etc...) I'd like the header for each of these 10 pages to be the same, and If I chose to change it.. only changing it once and that would affect all pages.

At http://www.forbiddenninja.com/admin before the site was deleted it, this would pull 1 page. It was the PhP Admin section and appeared more like a script than anything. There were open boxes to type html into for the Header (which spanned across all pages), Title, Footer, and Every individual site had an HTML Box. Each of these boxes you could scroll up and down, and to create a new page inside of this domain name... all that you had to do is click "add site" on the bottom on this admin page and presto, there's a new site at http://www.forbiddenninja.com/stuff and a new box that you can type the html into...

It sounds complicated, but it was really simple to say the least and didn't appear as a program (maybe a database though)

anxiously awaiting
thanks Wayne
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Post by patrikG »

The application you are describing is a content-management system (CMS) (not a database) like the ones mentioned above.
If you'd remember a name, you could most certainly download it from anywhere. However, some hosting-companies offer this kind of thing with their hosting-package...
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