Simple CMS

For one page only

[dirkji]

I recently designed a simple website for a friend of mine. He wants me to add a page that he can update himself (he doesn't know html).

Can anyone recommend me a simple CMS?

Dirk.

[faltered]

If he'll only be needing to update ONE page, what if you just turn that page into a template? Then you can make certain regions editable like the content, but leave the rest so that he can't mess it up.

Just a thought.

[ergophobe]

Agreed. He doesn't have any content to manage and many CMS require/allow that the person know HTML or BB code.

I would install a rich textarea editor such as TinyMCE (my favorite), SPAW, FKedit (FCKedit?), HTMLArea, Bitflux editor, or any of several commercial ones that don't cost a lot (but this doesn't sound like a big budget project.

Then just put the main page area into a form and read and write it to a text file that gets included in the page.

[dyrer]

Try OpenSourceMatters (mambo), xoops

[broniusm]

My experience with mambo was overwhelming at the time I tried it.. It's true that you might want to deploy a real cms, but most traditional cms's go way above and beyond.

Consider blog software like WordPress as a straightforward CMS.

[dirkji]

Thanks guys, I'll have a look at the options. I tried Mambo once, but it seems it's a little over the top for this project.
Dirk.

[tintin99]

I'm looking into this as well and I've started using TinyMCE which looks good. I'm having trouble getting my head around how to turn it into a CMS though. I'm OK with including text files in a web page but how do I get the text from TinyMCE into the text file?

(I have a feeling I'm going to kick myself when I hear the answer!)

[Longhaired Genius]

A single updatable page is a perfect project to start learning php with. You could make someting lean, flexible and satisfying without too much effort.

[tintin99]

Thanks LG - can you point me at a good tutorial?

[Longhaired Genius]

This is a good introduction to php [onlamp.com] on the O'Rielly website.

You need to familiarise yourself with php basics before you get started, but an approach you could take would be to update the required content in a textfile via a form and then include that file in the php page.