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Best method of allowing inexperienced users yo update part of a website
I am being asked to design a website for a used car dealer. I can provide all the 'static' parts of the design - no problem. But the client wants to update his list of vehicles for sale, complete with picture, on a daily basis without involving me. Any thoughts on how this is best accomplished. Client has web access obviously but no existing web design software, and ideally I don't want to allow him to edit the 'staic' parts of the site. I am using Dreamweaver.
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And the BEST way to ...... is NOT to let them mess with it!
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You could end your pages with .PHP and include this script where you would like to insert a TEXT file.
<?php
//
// This is looking for 1 parameter and it supplies the
// name of a file to display on the site.
//
$txtfile = $_REQUEST[Id] . '.txt';
if ($txtfile <> "null") {
$Open = fopen ($txtfile, "r");
if ($Open) {
$data = file ($txtfile);
for ($n = 0; $n < count($data); $n++) {
$GetLine = explode("\t",$data[$n]);
print ("$GetLine[0]<br>");
}
fclose ($Open);
} else {
print ("Error opening file.");
}
}
?>
URL to page would be: WWW.abc.com/inventory.php?Id=041905
The file with the info on it would be named 041905.txt