website update help

[Aaron1988]

hi i dont no if this is in the right part o the forum but i have a site and i was wondering if there was a script which everytime u put stuff it updates your site so you don't need to keep changing it and it does it automatically if you get me

Thanx
Aaron

[grahame]

Originally Posted by Aaron1988

hi i dont no if this is in the right part o the forum but i have a site and i was wondering if there was a script which everytime u put stuff it updates your site so you don't need to keep changing it and it does it automatically if you get me

Thanx
Aaron

I think you're probably looking for a content management system (CMS) - an application that could be written in PHP, or could some other server language. Blogs, Wikis, and forums such as this one are special cases of CMSs, and I would suggest that you look for an appropriate piece of open source code that does the job for you rather than write your own if your requirement meets the characteristics of one of those CMS types.

It is also possible (I do it on my work web site) to have a simple PHP script called index.php in a directory that'll give your users a dynamic index of what's there and so just by uploading / deleting files they're automatically re-indexed. If you head along those lines and need further help with code specifics, this board is the place to help.

[Aaron1988]

hey yuh i think ur right but i dotn wanna use a CMS i want use php or html or some other programming language

[moojoo]

Textpattern owns all. Alternately there are PHP scripts etc that can read contents of a folder and such and implement those contents in various ways. BTW a good CMS like the before mentioned are usually built with PHP etc. I like TP because you use all of your own XHTML, CSS, PHP etc within the system plus its built in tags etc make automating many things a snap. Something to consider. </shameless plug>

[Tim356]

Originally Posted by moojoo

Textpattern owns all. Alternately there are PHP scripts etc that can read contents of a folder and such and implement those contents in various ways. BTW a good CMS like the before mentioned are usually built with PHP etc. I like TP because you use all of your own XHTML, CSS, PHP etc within the system plus its built in tags etc make automating many things a snap. Something to consider. </shameless plug>

Yep, I'll plug it too. For work we use textpattern as our remote office/wiki. It's simple to use and has heaps of features - as you learn, you can build in more features.

[moojoo]

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