1 posted on
04/12/2002 1:03:25 PM PDT by
paul544
To: paul544
I thought that was the refresh button is for.
2 posted on
04/12/2002 1:04:50 PM PDT by
SGCOS
To: paul544
3 posted on
04/12/2002 1:06:58 PM PDT by
jbstrick
To: paul544
A threaded discussion would work. Or else wouldn't you need a database-driven solution? You might want to go to some of the javascript sites out there and search for some free code. They might have a way of doing it.
4 posted on
04/12/2002 1:07:06 PM PDT by
Huck
To: paul544
Basically, you want to have administrators update a database through an HTTP interface, and then have the contents of the database reflected in the web pages sent out to normal users.
There are many ways to do this. On Unix, the most modern way would be to use J2EE, and have a web server, an app server, and an SQL database on the back end. The interface to the web would be handled by servlets and JSPs, and they would communicate with Enterprise Java Beans that update the database. The outgoing Web pages would be generated by servlets that read the database.
I do this for a living, and have to admit the commercial products are designed for big companies with large budgets and staffs. It would cost a substantial amount of money to implement this with what I use at work, which is the iPlanet Web server, the BEA Weblogic app server, and Oracle on expensive Sun machines. But there are small, inexpensive open-source solutions such as JBoss and MYSQL, which run well on small Linux or Sun platforms.
Microsoft probably also has a way to do this, but I don't work in that area.
To: paul544
You might consider a content management system like
Plain Black. It's open source and runs on Apache. I would allow you and any trusted administrators to publish and update via web interface.
Another option is Slash. Slash is great for a site that will have many news updates and has built in BBS features.
To: paul544
i have written webpages in PERL, sorta like this site, where you have registered users, and postings..
you also have admin accounts, who are able to edit all postings or delete them, and also manage users, passwords, etc.
all this thru a web browser.. but it was written on unix..
freepmail me if this is the kinda thing your interested in
(ASP is for wimps :-)
To: paul544
You could always use PHP instead of ASP. In order to do what you want to do, you would best be advised to create a database. PHP has great hooks into MySQL.
A fairly decent starting point: PHP/MySQL Tutorial
There's also prebuilt solutions out there like PHP Nuke and Slashcode.
Best of all, they're free.
8 posted on
04/12/2002 1:19:49 PM PDT by
sigSEGV
To: paul544
What he said. Moveable Type. What you're describing is blogging software, which is readily available, judging by the explosion of weblogs in the last few months.
To: paul544
Take a look at
TWiki. There are other "wiki"s out there, as well but this is one of the best.
To: all
Thank you all so much. I am going through all the suggestions you have made. I am sure I will find a solution in here. Thanks again. I'm sure some of you will be getting freepmail.
11 posted on
04/12/2002 7:06:02 PM PDT by
paul544
To: paul544
bump
12 posted on
04/12/2002 7:34:17 PM PDT by
evilC
To: paul544
How about web page updates by email?? Try
FlexWindow. I haven't tried it yet but it looks like just the thing to allow clients who haven't got any HTML-savvy to dynamically update their own pages.
13 posted on
04/12/2002 11:58:15 PM PDT by
r-t-f-m
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