I made a basic website for my sons' garage band, and they want on the front page to have a box that the four of them can update with the 'latest news' - so I want it to be something they's have to log in to use, or at least enter a password to get into, and then have the 'news' they post show up on the front page of their site. Right now the page is an index.html page. I am thinking that PhP can probably do this pretty easily, but I dont know where to find a script about it, or how to configure it so that it will show the latest news articles on the home page.. Any directions or ideas?
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Jump to Postdo you have access to a database? if so then i wouldn't bother with loggin in, as that would be too much work for the sole purpose of adding latest news.
Create a new php page with a form use that has everything you want, and then just put a …
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http://cutephp.com/cutenews/FusionNews
http://www.fusionphp.net/index.php?cat=fnews&page=featuresHope it helps
Jump to PostDatabase is really made for this but if you have no db, you can get pretty creative and use fopen & fwrite to write a text file to your server. The password dealy mentioned above would help as a simple authentication, nothing happens if password isn't right. So if you …
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