Integrate template with PHP

[pj1115]

Hey

I'm using one of the great free templates from your site (thanks!). I can cope with HTML really well and I'm pretty confident with PHP. But, there are going to be others updating the site, and they don't like going near it, so I was wondering does anyone know a way of integrating a CMS-type thing with the template, so that others can edit the content of the site using a PHP editor.

Anyone help?

[ishkey]

You might want to try intergating the template into Joomla or B2Evolution or Wordpress as they are CMS and use css files.
php is really used as a server side script to present and keep your web functioning. You really do not others updating the function of your web do you?
I think you need something like the 3 mention, which have TEXT editors built in and are designed for others to edit based on the permissions you assign.

[pj1115]

I've set up numerous Wordpress blogs and Joomla CMS's before, but how easy would it be to more or less port one of the templates to a compatible theme?

The website is a general-purpose one, and I will add a gallery eventually, but I do have the need for others to update information on the site, for example a portfolio.

Do you know of a simple solution? For example, in the HTML, do you think there would be a way of calling the text? (i.e. Have the HTML as normal, but in place of the text, the a function is called that queries the script for the text). This text should be editable using a web-based text editor.
Is this possible?

[ishkey]

Templates take me about a week. Based on what you said you might what to use the include function in php http://www.tizag.com/phpT/include.php it inserts the contents of a file from a script.

[pj1115]

Great, that's what I'm looking for. Now, all I need is a text editor. Anyone have any ideas?

[pezboy45]

Notepad.
Comes installed on all windows machines.

Or, you can use Notepad++
(which does not come installed on all windows machines)
just google it.

[pj1115]

Oops, I should have worded my question better. I use Dev-C++ IDE to do alot of things, and though it's an IDE, it's wonderful for working with large ASCII files.

I was actually looking for an online HTML editor -- so, if I'm using PHP's include() function to include HTML or TXT files, I need a way of updating those files from a web application. I found FCKeditor, but I'm not sure if that's what I'm looking for. Any ideas?

[ishkey]

FCKeditor - what more could you want. It's feature rich, Integration unsurpassed, easy too use.