Uploading links

Customer to upload links himself

[nickreynolds]

Hope I'm in the right forum here - sorry if I'm not.
A customer wants a simple website which I'll do for him in simple html - no problem. I have little or no knowledge of php, asp etc. other than building simple forms etc.

Anyway the customer wants to be able to upload links himself to the site. He evidentally had a site once before (different niche and when he lived in another country) where he could do this simply. From the way he describes it, someone had set something up for him where he could visit a webpage on his site, enter the link code of the site he wanted to link to in a box, hit submit and it would be automatically added to his link pages.

He's not looking for an automatic linking software which trawls the web for you (I think he realises this is a no no), he wants to find suitable sites to link to, send a personal email or find their "link to us" details and do it manually. It's just the uploading of the link to his links page that needs to be automatic.

Any advice would be appreciated.

[coopster]

Yeah, you are looking at some type of server side technology that allows him to upload text that you will add to the page for him. This could be as simple as using a text file or it could be adding to the html code itself or a database ... possibilities are many.

Your main concern will be making sure that your upload form that you offer him be secure so that only he can use it and even then you should scrutinize any information being uploaded, making sure it is exactly what you expect and discard anything else.

[piatkow]

Sounds like a secure version of the "add your link" options you used to see before the spammers found them.

There is at least one hosted service that still does this and probably a few free scripts around that will give you some pointers.

[nickreynolds]

Can anyone point me to some similar kind of free script? I've spent a fair bit of time researching stuff that in the end doesn't do the job I want. o anyone who can help would be appreciated

[wuyupu]

Emm... i developed a site have some similar function as you said. Just place a form, do some check of user's input, then upload the user-input to the database, then display it. I'm a newbie of PHP programming too, I think the book Apress.Beginning.PHP.and.MySQL.5.From.Novice.to.Professional.2nd.Edition is a good choice for starting PHP and mySQL.

[edited by: eelixduppy at 1:50 am (utc) on Feb. 17, 2009]
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