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newbie needs help
Posted: Mon Feb 02, 2004 9:08 am
by skeeper
Hi,
I'm just wading in to PHP.
One of our clients has expressed interest in being able to modify certain sections of their site on their own. i.e. apart from rewriting or editing the html page per se. Is PHP an appropriate, um, vehicle, for accomplishing this sort of task or are other methods (like ASP - which I also next to nothing about

) better suited to this goal? If the former is true, can you point me in the right direction?
In the meantime, I'll take a look at the tutorials.
Thx in advance for your help...
Drew
Posted: Mon Feb 02, 2004 10:36 am
by Saethyr
While either ASP or PHP will work for this purpose, you have to consider costs involved in both, Apache and PHP $0, ASP and IIS $400 easy, plus your time to build said scripts, which, being new will take awhile. My suggestion is to make sure this is something they really need, I personally find it easier to show them how to update the text portions of the site using start and end comment tags in the code to show them what to edit, quick 5 minute ftp tutorial and viola' no code required.
just my 2 bytes,
Saethyr
Posted: Mon Feb 02, 2004 10:46 am
by skeeper
Thanks for your input. Much appreciated.
Wrt to the start end comment tags, do you mena that the clients would make changes within the areas of the HTML page that I have identified with the start/end comment tags without the use of PHP or ASP?
If I have set up all other features of the page (layout, design, fonts, spacing, etc with CSS), all they would need to do is add to or replace the section specified within the start/end area, save and FTP. Of course they would be working on the code side of the document, not having any of the software (like Dreamweaver).
Do I understand you correctly?
(Frankly, given the scope and frequency of anticipated updates, this may be a simpler way to go).
Posted: Mon Feb 02, 2004 11:26 am
by Saethyr
Yes, something like
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<HTML>
<HEAD>
<TITLE>Customer Page</TITLE>
</HEAD>
<BODY>
<!-- Edit Content Start-->
Hey look im a web designer! Saethyr ;)
<!-- Edit Content End -->
</BODY>
</HTML>
Every customer I have worked with who does not want to pay programming fees are more then happy to learn how to do this, I mean you know what they say "Teach a man to fish...."
Now if you wanna get them on the comeback thats an entirely different tale altogether.
Saethyr
Posted: Mon Feb 02, 2004 11:29 am
by skeeper
Thanks for confirming that.
What do you mean by,
"Now if you wanna get them on the comeback thats an entirely different tale altogether. " ?[/mail_search]