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PHP Manage News Content

Discussion in 'Web Development' started by almo136, Aug 27, 2008.

  1. almo136

    almo136 New Member

    Hi everyone,

    I'm in the process of creating a web site based on one of your templates which i have to say has made my life a lot easier as i am a bit of a novice.

    The site i'm creating is going to have a news section and I was wanting some advice on how to manage this as new content will be added regularly.

    I plan to have one page with the latest headlines and then a link to older news, then on that page a link to even older news and so on.

    The only way I know to do this is by manually creating the pages and continually shuffling the content. Does anyone know of a way to automate this process slightly as this will reach an almost impossible stage as content increases?

    I am open to alternative ways to organise the news as well.

    Thanks.
     
    almo136, Aug 27, 2008
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  2. ishkey

    ishkey Moderator, Logos, Sports Crests Staff Member Verified Member

    Being a novice this might take some time, but if you look at B2Evolution or Wordpress, both of which are written in "php" you should be able to figure out how it is done. These blog programs do archive old events automatically.
     
    ishkey, Aug 27, 2008
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  3. almo136

    almo136 New Member

    thanks for the suggestions. I had a look and they would have been perfect except i'd really like something I can integrate into the existing site seamlessly. I think to do that would be way over my head :eek:

    Do you know of any alternative methods?

    thanks
     
    almo136, Aug 27, 2008
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  4. ishkey

    ishkey Moderator, Logos, Sports Crests Staff Member Verified Member

    Thisis where you need to learn php as it works behind the scenes on the server. HTML just presents your pages to the world. It tells the browsers how to display your page, thats all it does. Different languages for different purposes. Call them tools of the trade, or you could try a turorial on one of the above blog programs on how to make your own template. Use the template you picked, convert it to run on one of the programs mentioned. I see no other way.
     
    ishkey, Aug 28, 2008
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  5. almo136

    almo136 New Member

    hey,

    after a couple of hours googling and experimenting I found the ideal solution for my problem

    www.cutephp.com

    It allowed me to integrate a news manager into my existing site by copying and pasting a couple of lines of code. No database is required and setup was easy.

    There is a handy admin dashboard to create news, archive news, manage users, make tweaks etc. You can see a basic sample of it on my site here (I still need to make some tweaks)...

    http://www.themakeuptimes.com

    To achieve this all i had to do was copy some of the code from the included example file into my existing site. The software is free although to get rid of the link at the bottom of the pages you need to pay $40. However, I just stumbled across this which seems to be almost identical and doesn't require a link back....

    www.cutenewsru.com

    Hopefully this will be useful for someone else....
     
    almo136, Sep 2, 2008
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  6. pezboy45

    pezboy45 Mod/Design & Coder [Pro]

    leap can also do the same thing.
    And I might be joining the dev team.
     
    pezboy45, Sep 2, 2008
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