Advice Needed

Can any one help me? (I hope this is the right place to post)

At http://www.spiritualistchurches.net we currently list churches and their services (churches email in details, I have to edit and upload the pages)

What I would like is a system whereby members could login and edit their own church information

I would like to display .. all contact details and a calendar of upcoming events for each church

I would like the system to be searchable by visitors to the site

Is there anything in existence htat would enable me to do this?

Annie

I'm not sure if you can find something quite this bespoke!

Regardless, some more details are needed...

I assume this would be a web solution? Do you currently have a system this would run on (windows/linux?) or a database already in effect?

I'm thinking that you might be able to find a generic solution that enables users to add/edit data in a database.

Thanks for replying

Yes, I need a web solution and will be starting from scratch.

The requirements are :-

(1) Church leaders can login to their accounts and list contact details and church service details via a calendar.

(2) Visitors to the website can search for churches in their area and when they click on a particular church can see the contact details and the churches service calendar.

(3) We would also like to be able to post church articles.

Would really appreciate any help available finding a system to achieve this.

Annie

For this you will need a server side scripting language, and a database... what technologies do you have available to you? ASP? PHP? Access? MySQL?

I beleive I have all of those available.

My hosting is held at http://www.hostofspirits.com

in that case, you need to decide which language and database to use. If using ASP, i suggest Access, if using PHP, i suggest MySQL. However, whatever language you use, you will need a database set up with churches, church login details, church contact details, and church service details.

I can't find anything quite bespoke enough that would service your needs, for free. There are scripts out there that enable people to add/edit/delete things from a database and there are other scripts that allow you to search through a database, but bringing those together, in the way you want and having some sort of protection so that visitors cannot remove/edit content is a more complicated matter.

You will need to either learn a certain language and do this yourself (quite time consuming) or find someone that will do it for you, either voluntarily, or at a fee.

One good solution I did find, which costs, is here:
http://www.ezdatabase.org/

Unless anyone else has more luck finding something than I did?

nope, to be honest, i dont think you will...

if you have a basic understanding of computer programming languages, then i would have thought that it wouldn't be too difficult to learn either PHP or ASP (good tutorials can be found at www.w3schools.com ) and program it yourself. I leant PHP a few weeks ago from a book i got out of the library (SAMS Teach Yourself PHP, MySQL and Apache) and i've managed to write a few scripts in it... so with a little bit of time and effort i dont think it would be too difficult...