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#158960 - 11/16/08 02:21 PM
In over my head? help!
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I've been given the task at work of updating our crappy html-only website to have more up to date information, and also to keep 'news releases' up to date. The person responsible for making news-releases is computer fucktarded, so I want to make a web-interface for them to upload 'title, body, date and time' which will then be translated to a (css?) formatted webpage.
I have access via ftp to our hosted webspace - it has a pile of directories I'm no longer familiar with, so its capable of all sorts of scripting. My thought is to have the person responsible for the releases use a created (secure) blog account (google blogger?) and then have our main page rss the news stories titles and content into the main webspace. This would alleviate having to secure our actual website - I wouldnt need to create a local login system for idiot to update the stories.
Any thoughts?
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#158963 - 11/16/08 03:56 PM
Re: In over my head? help!
[Re: Frollard]
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another option is to use a embeded flash menu that reads from a text file, and upload it, or create a dhtml or php page that reads from a text file.
you know what I go through with why bring that pain on yourself by letting them edit html. I've seen clients screw up a whole site then play stupid .
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#158966 - 11/16/08 05:19 PM
Re: In over my head? help!
[Re: HarryB]
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Exactly why I want them nowhere near anything that edits the structure of the site - just the content. Some way, even if a robot would parse an email inbox so they could submit it that way, and not even have to log into a blog or somewhere...
Anything but me manually updating an html page.
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#158967 - 11/16/08 07:21 PM
Re: In over my head? help!
[Re: Frollard]
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what about drupal?
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#158968 - 11/16/08 08:00 PM
Re: In over my head? help!
[Re: Compactman]
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you know there was a stupidly simple jury-rigged solution i made once...
i'm not going to call this a 'proper' solution, but the situation called for something that just worked, so heres what i did.
made an access database, simple stuff, like name, title, description and so on.
people would use this db to edit and add and mark "don't post", for [whatever] data.
then build reports that were structured as html pages. in the header you had the <html><title><head><body> and table setup tags.
in the report body, you had the body code <tr><td>[record data], and so on.
in the report footer you had the table and html closing tags.
every night at some specific time, the database would generate the reports as 'filtered html files', can't be just html files cuz then you get all the useless MS office tags in there.
then run a scheduled batch script to copy n replace the existing html files on the web server.
and voila... pseudo-auto-updating.
like i said, jury-rigged, not proper, but it worked.
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#158970 - 11/16/08 08:13 PM
Re: In over my head? help!
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ahh, that's an idea, you could upload an access db or excel spreadsheet and pull data from the file by odbc or dsn or dsnless connection.
there was something I did many moons ago that pulled data from an access db
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#158980 - 11/17/08 07:35 AM
Re: In over my head? help!
[Re: WeerDo]
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Thanks for the quick responses...
I don't even want <her> to have access to a database. I'm thinking a web-submit form is pushing it for stupid-end-user ability.
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#158983 - 11/17/08 01:01 PM
Re: In over my head? help!
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In a world where the blind leads the blind, who do you follow? the women with the big butts and breast. 
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#158991 - 11/18/08 09:00 AM
Re: In over my head? help!
[Re: Frollard]
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King of the Ewoks
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I don't even want <her> to have access to a database. I'm thinking a web-submit form is pushing it for stupid-end-user ability. jeezus... what kinda stupid are you dealing with over there??
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#158997 - 11/18/08 11:05 AM
Re: In over my head? help!
[Re: WeerDo]
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jeezus... what kinda stupid are you dealing with over there?? there's a whole new breed of idiots and asshats.*LOL* where they come from?? I don't know. who's breeding them? I don't know. how do they manage not to accidentally kill themselves? I don't know. all I do know is they need to be stopped.*L*
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