need help finding a script or tool to use for a news update program.

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?

jilly

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do 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 password field as one of the inputs, if the password isn't correct then don't update. if the password is correct then add it to the database.

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CuteNews
http://cutephp.com/cutenews/

FusionNews
http://www.fusionphp.net/index.php?cat=fnews&page=features

Hope it helps

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woohoo, thanks!

Paradox, what you have posted is a bit beyond my current ability without some handholding - I will probably try the links in the next post, if not I may come back and ask you to hold my hand while walking through the php page!!

jilly

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Database 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 have a form input named mytext...

$file_name = fopen("/path/to/homedir/myfile.txt","w+");
$file = $HTTP_POST_VARS["mytext"];
fwrite($file_name,$file);
fclose($file_name);

Then your page could include the text file.
<? include 'myfile.txt'; ?>

You might make a blank file on the server to get started. Also make sure apache can write to it!!!

Good luck

barnamos

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I have access to mysql databases, so I could do that, but the problem is that the only database and php I know so far came from admin'ing my vbulletins and hacking them.. LOL - I don't really know how to do one from scratch. Also the main home page is an index.html file, and I need to turn it into an index.php file I think - and I am not sure how to do that... D'oh! Any more advice??

jilly

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Input the text for the page:

Password:

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