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Anonymous
May 28, 2009
Question

News Section easly updated...

  • May 28, 2009
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Hello dw experts. I am requesting a tutorial link, or to have you point me in a
direction that I might best learn the method of allowing a customer to remotely
edit and update text in the news section of the website.

I'd like to build the app myself but also consider a simple
third-party product that I can just purchase as the front end of this idea for
my customer to use, and the method to place the receiving end on my page.
Mostly, I would like a simple php control or page where the
client would add his "Latest news" posts and edit them, hit the publish button, and that text would then
magically appear in their website; perhaps sequencially, by date posted.

I know i posted a similar post earlier this week. But the tutorial I got pointed at didnt work for what im trying to accomplish... That tutorial covered more of the user posts comments method rather than the client updates his news section as I explained up top.

A great example of this "news section" would be http://www.roughdraftband.com -the section you see on the left...

Also I'd eventually need to build a "upcoming shows" section like they also have on the right. But I'm guessing that'll be very similar in structure to the "news section"

Thanks for your help!

Beliy

ps. I apologize if this is in the wrong forum... I dont really know where this would go...

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Anonymous
May 29, 2009

Okay, now that I have that figure out!!!

..I want to make each news post commentable by my visitors... How can i accomplish this?

Also, could i change the date to a different format for each post?

In the tutorial it gets me the date formatted like this with every post."2008-10-27" I would like it to be formatted so-"May 28, 2009"

Is that possible?

any help/suggestions are greatly appreciated!

Beliy

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bregent
Participating Frequently
May 30, 2009

>..I want to make each news post commentable by my visitors... How can i accomplish this?

Hard to really describe in a forum post, but...

You would need to create another table for the comments. It would have a column for a foreign key to the article table and other columns for the comments, dates, etc. The interface would consist of a form that inserts user data into that table. To display, you would then nest a recordset for the comments within the recordset for the articles.

Have you built the first part already?

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Anonymous
May 30, 2009

thanks for the response. Yes I have the interface for the admin section and the news section already set up.

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bregent
Participating Frequently
May 29, 2009

>That tutorial covered more of the user posts comments method rather than the client updates his news section as I explained up top.

The two applications are very similar and if you can build a user comment application you can easily adapt it for updating news articles. If you are looking for something ready made, try searching the web for blogging or news scripts. There's a ton out there.

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Anonymous
May 29, 2009

Bregent and Murray, thank you for your responses... I'm slowly startin to get somewhere!!

MurraySummers
MurraySummers
Inspiring
May 28, 2009

Try starting here -

http://www.adobe.com/devnet/dreamweaver/articles/develop_web_application.html

DwFAQ
DwFAQ
Participating Frequently
May 28, 2009

I know i posted a similar post earlier this week. But the tutorial I got pointed at didnt work for what im trying to accomplish...

The other post (marked as answered) that didn't help the OP was the same reply...  

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