Inserting file contents into web pages using php
Posted: Sun May 07, 2006 7:54 pm
Hello all,
Hopefully you can help me here considering what I want to do is quite simple. I'm up to date with some basic HTML, CSS, Flash and have created static web pages for a few clients. I'm now embarking on the dynamic page route and have a splash of PHP programming knowledge (or really a dribble, to borrow a horrible adjective). What I'd like to offer my clients is what I suppose is a basic content management system for text and later on for images so I need not update page after page and leave it to the layman.
I understand you can insert the contents of a text document (with or without the html tags for formatting text?) into a table cell using php. My design layout would be a simple two column table with rows for a header image, footer and links. I'd like to be able to say to my clients, edit this Word document with simple formatting then upload it to this directory via ftp and voila, there's your content in the left column. I say Word doc so they need not know anything about HTML, but maybe this isn't possible?
Is there an easy way to do this? This post seemed like a mixture between design and code so sorry if I've placed my questions in the wrong category.
Cheers.

Hopefully you can help me here considering what I want to do is quite simple. I'm up to date with some basic HTML, CSS, Flash and have created static web pages for a few clients. I'm now embarking on the dynamic page route and have a splash of PHP programming knowledge (or really a dribble, to borrow a horrible adjective). What I'd like to offer my clients is what I suppose is a basic content management system for text and later on for images so I need not update page after page and leave it to the layman.
I understand you can insert the contents of a text document (with or without the html tags for formatting text?) into a table cell using php. My design layout would be a simple two column table with rows for a header image, footer and links. I'd like to be able to say to my clients, edit this Word document with simple formatting then upload it to this directory via ftp and voila, there's your content in the left column. I say Word doc so they need not know anything about HTML, but maybe this isn't possible?
Is there an easy way to do this? This post seemed like a mixture between design and code so sorry if I've placed my questions in the wrong category.
Cheers.