Hello, because of the nature of my questions I don't think it belongs in any one section, so forgive me if this is not the best place to ask.
I'm designing a web page (and unfortunately I'm more of a graphics artist than I am a coder) that will have blog-like news posts.
I've messed with PHP before and had it so I could access a page, type in input fields and it would submit to the database, then the index.php file would generate tables for the news post and take all the data from the database. The only problem with this is that it is not easy to format the news posts properly. I also couldn't figure out having different users and such that I could grant access to posting, so I only had one password that I shared among my 'moderators' if you will.
Now, I don't mind relearning all of this, but if there's an easier and more secure way than writing the code myself, I'm all up to it. I've been reading about php-nuke and it seems full of security holes, and I definitely don't want that. It also seemed to me that it had it's own 'news' page instead of letting me use my own, though I'm sure I could figure out it's system and just have my own index.php.
I'd like it to be somewhat like planet halflife's system of posting news. It's as if it was posted in a certain section of a forum (which only the editors and writers and moderators would have access to create new topics) and then taken from the same database and called for on the front news page. There's also comments which are replies to the news posts from the community in the forum.
All of this seems so very complicated if I were to write the code myself, I hate to be a script kiddie but I have headaches just thinking about it.
Also I was wondering what is the best system for sorting reviews and other articles that wouldn't be on the index news page, but I'll leave that for another time after I get this going.
Thank you very much in advance for any help provided!!
Looking for a little guidance here
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Re: Looking for a little guidance here
Try CMS packages such as wordpress, drupal and joomla
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Re: Looking for a little guidance here
You could always take advantage of existing forum software and create a forum where only moderators can start topics, but anyone can respond to them. Then, just display the first post of those threads on your news page.
Re: Looking for a little guidance here
That thought occurred to me last night after posting. Will the formatting be preserved? It's just html, correct? I remember last time I had issues with either slashes and/or apostrophes, I don't quite remember..superdezign wrote:You could always take advantage of existing forum software and create a forum where only moderators can start topics, but anyone can respond to them. Then, just display the first post of those threads on your news page.
Is there any way to automatically push anything after 10 posts or so to a new page to archive them? I think I may be getting over my head here..
PHPbb would work, right? As far as I understand it, posts will be put into the database then I can call them into the news page.
Thank you both very much for the quick response! If you need any help in photoshop I'd be glad to return the favors.