Hi all.
I'm looking for ideas and suggestions on how to best add some specific "updating capabilities" for one of my sites. I want other people (with no web experience at all) to be able to add news to my site as easily as possible. The exact situation is that I want directors of several different recreation leagues to be able to easily post rainout information on my site. The information would just be a few short lines of simple text, that then becomes integrated ino my webpages. My goal is to keep me out of the loop completely.
I know I can use Blogger with SSI, but what about a news script (http://www.nphp.net/) or some sort of Wiki technology (http://phpwiki.sourceforge.net/)? Would these have any advantages?
The ideal situation would be for others to send simple email to a pre-setup email address, and have the text from that email somehow automatically be inserted in my webpage via SSI. Email is easier then having people login to a webpage. Is there anyway to do that?
Any suggestions for this situation?
Nip it in the bud!
mjames posted this at 20:24 — 8th May 2002.
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You would probably be best off with a news script like those which you mentioned. To be honest, I've never heard of the ability to go from e-mail to site like that.
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Nails posted this at 05:48 — 23rd May 2002.
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This is certainly possible, although you will probably not find any pre-written scripts to do it, and you may have to work with your host (if on a shared server) to set it up, as it involves piping email to a script, which may be restricted by default on many servers. I have done this several times though, and I agree, it is often the ideal solution.