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How do you create a custom PHP editor

Posted: Mon May 04, 2009 9:21 pm
by s37d
I'm experienced in HTML and Flash, a little Java, but not much PHP. I can make a decent looking site just fine, but the hard part is setting it up so the user can edit it himself. I've seen things like this set up in PHP before, where custom editor menus can be set up for the user to log in and say upload pictures into any of several areas in his site. I assume this is fairly complex since you probably have to put 'placemarkers' in the site where you want the images to be uploaded via the editor. I'm looking for maybe a guide/tutorial on this and wondering if it's that difficult? Thanks

Re: How do you create a custom PHP editor

Posted: Wed May 06, 2009 9:10 pm
by s37d
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Re: How do you create a custom PHP editor

Posted: Wed May 06, 2009 9:27 pm
by Gabriel
I think what you're looking to do is program a content management system. There are plenty of tutorials out there that will teach you how to store/retrieve content from a database, manage users and permissions (who can edit and who can't), etc.

It isn't that it's hard, it's just a time consuming project.

Re: How do you create a custom PHP editor

Posted: Wed May 06, 2009 11:53 pm
by s37d
Right that's what I figured. What would you recommend as the best/fastest/easiest way to set up a website to allow for the owner to upload his own pictures and text into preset areas of the site? Thanks

Re: How do you create a custom PHP editor

Posted: Thu May 07, 2009 12:02 am
by Gabriel
If you don't feel like programming one from scratch, you can use an already programmed content management system. opensourceCMS offers a service that allows you to test out several of these systems and read reviews and ratings.