What is the best solution?
I'm a programming novice who has only used HTML and Javascript until now and need some advice
My question is this:
I am trying to redesign my literature site, to which I add several new long articles (1000 words) every month. The admin. is becoming a pain as you can imagine: moving old articles to archives etc. etc.
What is the best solution to manage the articles? Most scripts including PHPNuke are best suited for shorter pieces of text. Most database driven websites are like http://www.aquanuke.com with only a few words of text in each section.
I need something pretty advanced and customisable:
- Full articles in middle of page
- Transfer headlines of older articles/news stories to right hand column
- Transfer even older articles to archives
I can afford to pay up to $500 for the right software.
Thanks in advance for your suggestions/tips
Regards,
N. Azam
Nadeem Azam
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Busy posted this at 03:20 — 20th February 2002.
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database driven site php/mysql price=free (or time taken to learn it if not)
there is probably an easy way to use the above but one way could be to write the article and name it (date).inc (or .php, .html ...) then just use the name (date) to call it to your page with an include. using the date function you could have it so it automaticaly changes to the new article on a certain date and older one would become part of the archive.
not sure about including just a heading thou by this method.
I'm still learning this stuff so I'm sure the pros will have a better way of doing it.
good luck
Wil posted this at 09:31 — 20th February 2002.
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I'd go with DBMan SQL. A very powerful and scalable solution. The only problem is that it will set you back a few dollars.
http://www.gossamer-threads.com/scripts/dbman-sql/index.htm
- wil
Gurudev posted this at 19:39 — 20th February 2002.
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How many artciles are we talking about? Is it ok if they are all uploaded to one folder? I have a site where users can submit articles in text, html, pdf, excel, word, format. When submitting articles, they input the title, description, contact email, etc., The article itself is a seperate file and is uploaded to a folder while the remaining information is in a seperate database and each title points to a specific article and depending upon the type of file it is either opened in browser (text and html) or an application is launched (word, ppt, pdf, excel).
You can manage the title, description, etc., for each article from another database and this also includes a admin panel. If you are interested in this let me know and I will show you a demo and will do the work for a fee as mentioned above. If you need an advanced solution then you can post a project on the site below in my signature and request bids from other programmers.
1lit.com posted this at 18:59 — 21st February 2002.
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Gurudev, that sounds intriguing! Could be just what we're looking for. Any chance we can have a look at a demo? If it's whatever we're after, I'll commission you.
Incidentally, where are you based. Not in the UK or Germany by chance are you (then I could meet you in person)?
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TNezvigin posted this at 05:07 — 27th February 2002.
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I have the solution for you. Newspro. Its a CGI script. It might not be as advanced as of what most of you guys use , but it gets the job done. It is completely customizable. Its the best that I know of, and its free.
Here is the addy: http://www.amphibianweb.com/newspro/
Have fun
Tom Nezvigin
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