Have you considered setting this up in wordpress? On Tue, Feb 26, 2013 at 5:14 PM, Barry Smith <scs.bns001@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Yes, Jim, and "tamouse", > > Apologies for the length of this response. > > I am asking for help organizing the rewrite of the site, from a LOT of > HTMLs that have 90% in common, containing a couple of php links to do a php > mail form and command, and an article... to a "template-article-footer" > format. > > I am having a problem visualizing how I need to proceed (from the highest > level), so I was asking for opinions on how to organize the index.php plus > template.php plus home.article design... at the highest level. > > From the sounds of it ( I didn't bother to un-zip his file) it appears that >> he just wants to create a model template and fill in the center (the >> 'article'?) appropriately depending upon the user's request > > > That is basically the project. > > I have used Joomla for sites like this before, but the business owner is > not tech-savvy (not a power-user) in the least. > > Setting up Joomla for her site, teaching her how to navigate Joomla to > modify articles, and giving her the access to the articles that she wants > access to is WAY beyond what she is capable of and REALLY overkill for this > small website. Besides, she could destroy the whole site as Joomla admin or > a Joomla user very easily. > > She wants access to some of the articles, ONLY to change the wording of > some articles (the article on the about page and the home page, and maybe a > "specials" page yet to be designed) but I am trying not to giving her the > ability to destroy the whole site because she has access to. I want to > place .article files in a folder, and let her work on the articles. I can > build a default article into the PHP if the document that she edits gets > deleted. Yet she's a smart business owner... "if i have access to the > articles to change them and I mess up, I don't want the website to > disappear" was how she expressed it to me. > > The other wrinkle (at a programming level) is that she wants a header in > every email that the website sends to the company, to track which link was > clicked. > > I'm thinking that (as an example of the changes that I need to make to the > files contained in the zip )-- > > I. index.html would "require" index.php. > 1) index.php would define variables for that page, i.e. a var > building="index" or "about" or "services" or "products", and then include > "template.php", a home.article file, and a footer.php . > 2) template.php would use the "building" value to build each custom header > and left column and right column. Within the header, it would use the > variable "building" to send a label that identifies "building" and another > value "header" to "contact.php" (see more about "contact.php" later). > Programatically, template.php will highlight tab buttons at the top of the > page (if they need to be highlighted) and menu buttons in left column (if > they need to be highlighted) dependent on the value of "building", and in > column 2 choose the correct list of buttons to display in a vendor list > dependent on the value of "building". > 3) footer.php would use the "building" value to build each custom footer > for the page. Within the footer, it would use the variable "building" to > send a label that identifies "building" and another value "footer" to > "contact.php" (see more about "contact.php" later). > > II. contact.php will bring up an email form, use the label passed in to > create a custom header to insert into the php mail command/function. > > III/IV/V/VI. Each HTML in the site will have an associated php that calls > template, grabs any appropriate .article file, calls footer. > > Does that structure make sense? > > Are there gotchas, things to "verify" and "watch out for" that you have run > into doing similar projects? > > As a past for this design procedure, I worked on a "sales agent" site years > ago that did a similar "build each page dependent on logged.in.user" ... > but the control for this project is not logged.in.user in this project... > the control is page.being.built . > > Thank you for the input, and any links to online articles that I should > probably read, or topics that I should make sure I understand completely in > php. > > Peace, > -- > Barry Smith > c 704-497-4217 > e scs.bns001@xxxxxxxxx -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
