Re: Basi question on web page content

[Kelly Cookson <KCookson@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

If you decide to go with a CMS like Drupal on the IBM I (AS400), then you might consider getting the new Zend server so you don't have problems with the reverse proxy server used by Zend Core.

If you used Drupal, users could simply create pages themselves in wiki-like fashion. You can install modules that give users WYSIWYG editing capabilities, but I find these modules a little buggy and the html code they generate is horrendous. I prefer to have my users format pages with BBCode or with simple HTML (with the assistance of an editor called BUEditor).  

I've set up several sites with Drupal. It took a couple of days to find my way around the administration pages, but I like Drupal. I can now set up a complete website with login, control over user permissions, search capabilities, user blogs, wiki-like books, forums, and individual pages in less than a day. That includes having the site look the way I want it to look.  

I recommend a Drupal theme called Sky. It has some decent configuration options, and I've been able to understand the underlying code well enough to customize it. Some themes are more convoluted than others at the code level.

Kelly Cookson
Senior Programmer/Analyst
Dot Foods, Inc.
217-773-4486 x12676
www.dotfoods.com


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Subject: Re: [WEB400] Basi question on web page content

As others have stated, it sounds like you want a content management system
(CMS).  There are a slew of them available that are based on PHP so you
will have a lot of options

Thanks,
Todd Allen
EDPS
Electronic Data Processing Services
tallen@xxxxxxxxxxxx



                                                                           
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Hi,

I'm still learning the basics, but I have a little site that uses php/mySql
and CSS. I can also use XML/XSL. Any text that I put in my pages are
hardcoded in the php or html files. Now, someone will be regularly writing
new text articles for the site. How do you normally get the text onto the
page? I mean, where would it be stored so that a page could be regenerated
if the style were to change?  I was thinking of copying the text to XML and
generating HTML from these pages. But is it usual for the developer to take
the text written by the user and edit it in this way?

Also, what is meant exactly by static or dynamic pages? I'm thinking that a
dynamic page is one that is generated after the http request, and a static
page exists already at that point.

Thanks.



 
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