Michael Austin <ma*****@firstdbasource.com> wrote in message news:<XY*****************@newssvr24.news.prodigy.c om>...
we could, but then where would the learning come in? There are LOTS of
script examples for doing this but it may not be called "news". A
google search should turn up numerous examples of taking input and
displaying it..
You mentioned DW and FTP - tells me you may or may not own nor control
the equipment/environment. As long as this is the case, you don't have
any other options. Even if you used local files, how are they going to
magically appear on your page?
How are you "posting" it? How are you getting the information from your
keyboard into PHP/some sort of data store (a method for storing the data).
Do you "own" the web server and have full admin privs on the server, or
is it one belonging to your ISP? If it belongs to your ISP do they
allow PHP programming, because I know I wouldn't due to the security
risks involved.
Michael Austin.
Yes, I am an admin on my server. No, I don't own one. Yes, I have
owned one in the past. I've done websites for companies before, I just
haven't tried to use PHP. This is the first website I am doing for
myself, not for pay.
And about learning. If I had the time to learn another languange, I
would gladly do it (I have a majors in Linguistics and Computer
Science). However, I don't, so I thought I would ask around here.
If you want me to use a plain read/write script, well, that's your
idea. I would like something more dynamic.
By posting, I mean as in a bullitin board. An ideal script would allow
qualitfied people to log on and "post" news, just as in a forum.