dear readers ,

 I am developing an editor for changing contents of a site dynamically . can anyone give me any idea of how to devlop it or can give me some basic idea to start on .

 Support will be highly appreciated .

 Thanx

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Cheers :
K K Singh.
+91-9810481159

Why to be GOOD when U have the ability to be GREAT

When you say editor do you mean a wysiwyg editor that has html abilities (similar to the method used to post a thread here) or do you simply want to update data?

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Matt

Dear mat ,

 Thanx for ur reply . basically , what i want is to develop an editor that can help our clients to customize their pages, ie they can change images online , can develop their own pages etc..

 Reference : http://www.oliveglobal.com/cms.html

 Dear mat please refer this link which is already offering this editor .

 Thanx again for ur reply .
 waiting for ur helpful support



Cheers :
K K Singh.
+91-9810481159

Why to be GOOD when U have the ability to be GREAT

How to build a cms is what you are asking? A very broad question, to broadly answer it:

Web pages containing forms ask users for information - this information gets posted into a database structure. Other web pages query the datastore and show the data.

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Matt

dear matt ,

   basically i want to know that how can i develop a cms . could u please guide me or give me any link from where i can get some guidance on how to develop such a system

thanx for reply


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K K Singh.
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There is no quick answer to that question. I suggest you start writting some code, when you run into specific problems - post them.

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Matt

mat basically i am not getting any idea how to start from the scratch . Like database Design . Whether it is posssible using any database or XML is Required for this ?
 I am not getting any entry point in this context . So If u can Give me some idea of that i 'll be gr8ful

 Thanx for ur reply ..


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;;;mat basically i am not getting any idea how to start from the scratch

Have you built any ASP applications? If the answer is no a CMS is a trickey on to start with. If this is the case - I suggest getting the Wrox book 'Beginning ASP' - a very good book that has working code examples including database structures

;;;Like database Design
Do some research regarding 'relational database design best practices' How your back end is built is just as important as the code.

;;;Whether it is posssible using any database or XML is Required for this
No you cant use any database, yes you can use XML.
1..Access will do the job for you. It does have limitations, research 'Access vs SQL Server pro's and cons'
2..SQL Server is what I use and suggest
3..XML - have you written XML before? you achieve portability using XML. I suggest getting a hold of ASP before XML (I have not written much XML)

;;;I am not getting any entry point in this context
This is not meant to sound harsh, forgive me if it does. I dont think you will get anybody here guiding you step by step how to create a CMS, the back end design etc. My suggestion is to get some resources, books, e-books - make a start, then post more specific questions here...

HTH

Wind is your friend
Matt

Hi,

I have the experience of working on online editors called WYSIWGY (some thing like that). You can find several basic free web editors on the web. You can also download the hotmail and Yahoo web editors by using 'Save As' option in email compose section.

If you are looking for advance editors then go to "http://www.elinestudio.com/default.asp?id=20" OR "www.innova.com". But advance editors are not for free.

Basically the pages you create through Web Editor are stored in database with a unique id.

Lets suppose you create a "contact us" page through web editor. The unique id of that page in database is "1".
Now to display that page on the web you have to create an asp page and call the content of "contact us" page using Unique id (i.e 1) from database.

To get better understanding of what I mean browse "http://www.elinestudio.com/default.asp?id=3" you will see that the page name (default.asp) remains same but the id of page changes.


Let me know if you need more explaination. I'll be glad to help you.

try reading "PHP & MySQL Web Development" by Wellings and Thomson - it has an excellent chapter on building a CMS using these technologies