using tinymce or similar to update a website

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chichester
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using tinymce or similar to update a website

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Hi I am new to PHP and am hoping that PHP will solve a problem for me.
I have made a site for my daughter who knows nothing about web development. I need to enable her to update her own text on her site without my help.

I am hoping that PHP and MySQL will enable me to contruct this facility for her.

My initial idea was to use tinymce (or similar) available via a secure login.

Is this the correct way to go about this?
If so I would appreciate any help and advice or even code that could get the job done.

Thanks in advance for any advice. :D
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Re: using tinymce or similar to update a website

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Yep, that sounds plausible. There are free CMSs out there already which do almost exactly what you're suggesting.
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Thanks for such a quick response. Are these CMs's in PHP?
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Re: using tinymce or similar to update a website

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Yes, there are many CMS systems in PHP. Also many "blogging" systems which can be used as a CMS. Like Wordpress or Textpattern.

You can use one of those to build in your site and be able to easily update the content of your site. However, building your site in such a system (or such a system behind your site) is a technical task, for which you need at least some knowledge of PHP (and often MySql).

If you are really determined and have some time, you can get very far though, with the help of forums, tutorials and the documentation of these systems. For example, Wordpress has a huge community around it so you can always find help if you have a problem
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Re: using tinymce or similar to update a website

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thanks you for all you advice :D
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