Script - client pastes text, creates new pages?

my client needs to be able to add content pages to his site without my help

[AC_Design]

Hi -

I'm trying to add the ability to one of my client's sites to allow him to paste text articles he writes into a form, submit it, and have it generate a new page. I've "almost" got what I need using the script NewsPro [amphibianweb.com] but ran into a dead-end, since I can't seem to get it to display the header/links for each topic on the dynamically generated pages (works fine on shtml pages, but I need them on all pages).

Ok I know this is confusing to explain... best if you just see what I have done [gypsy-thegeneral.com] with NewsPro. As you can see, if you click to the article title displayed on the right sidebar, when you get the that dynamic page, the titles no longer can display in the sidebar. I can't include them with SSI as on the main page, since the dynamic pages are template-based.

Anyhow, I'm despirately in need of some help on this... either to figure out how to do what I need with NewsPro, or else please recommend another script better suited to this type of task. The server only supports Perl, and no PHP nor mySQL unfortunately.

Thanks so much in advance for the help... I've posted in several places already with not so much as a gesture of help on this yet, and I'm nearing my deadline.
Peace!

[rcjordan]

I've long followed newspro, thinking that it would be a great content management tool. Then bloggers came along. I'd suggest looking into those, particularly greymatter. bloggers [webmasterworld.com] thread

[Damian]

I never used NewsPro, but do you know Genesis from xav.com ?

User does not need to know html, in your templates you can make constructs like

<%if menu1%>
blabla
<% end if%>

<%if menu2%>
blabla
<%end if&>

And let the user choose for example between "main menu / product menu / someothermenu "

You'd probably need to customize it (ie. to allow the user to name the pages that are dumped) but it'll probaly make a good basis.

[AC_Design]

Thanks :) I tried Greymatter and it seems just the thing I was looking for. A little bit of configuration tweaking (mostly turning off superfluous features) got me the results I needed, and the admin center is about perfect, since it is self-explainitory to the client on how to add a new page, etc (i.e. no wasted time for me teaching clients who have zero technical skills). It's also great that the output is generated into static files, thus reducing server-load, making the pages search-engine spider friendly, etc. You can see the results using the script at [Gypsy-TheGeneral.com...]

The only thing is I "wish" it supported multiple categories, as it is seeming I will have to install the script more than once to accomodate each section of the site (luckily in this case there are only 2 sections that the client needs to continuoulsy update). The ease-of-installation is perfect, almost nothing to do.

Out of curiosity, for future reference of clients who "do" have PHP functionality on their server... what would be an equivilent script in PHP? I much prefer PHP over CGI, but it would be good to keep both sides in mind and use whatever is more appropriate to the situation. Also, is there a simple mod anywhere that can add categories to Greymatter, or, a similar script that already supports them?

Anyhow - thanks.. I appreciate the help :)
-- David

[stcrim]

I have long been looking far a script where my client cound make "some" changes to their sites. this script [cgiscript.net] though commercial is a dream come true for us. At $49 it's darn near free.

sorry for the commercial drop but this script is worth seeing.

-s-

[stcrim]

BTW - with the above script you can have as naby users as you want and assign them separate pages. Each is password protected and they can't access the whole site - just what you assign them...

-s-

[rcjordan]

>assign them separate pages

Do you assign them by path or by relative url? I have multiple domains on the same server accessed by an ever-growing array of members.

(the screenshot makes it appear to be single domain)

[stcrim]

Good question - in my case the program resides on each domain I am using it for - see your e

-s-