Hello all-

Mods, move this thread to a better category if needed, hopefully i'll find it!

I was wondering if there is such a service out there yet, or software that allows you to embed a box or something in your site, where you can easily change the text in it, for your website, much like the 'status' on facebook, how you can update that so easily from a phone...does that make sense?

if there isn't, does anyone know how to do that, and how much would you charge? I think that's a great thing, and would love to be able to update a section of my site like that, so easily...

thanks!

I'm not entirely sure if there is a software that does it, but I know how I'd make it. Since a database would simply be overkill for a function as simple as this, I would contain the information into a text file. I would make an 'admin' section with php that allows you to edit the text file, and then a 'frontend' that would take the contents of the text file. So... here's some code that you can use. Not entirely sure if it'll work on a phone, but it's easy to modify.
First of all, create a .txt file called 'info'. Then create a new file with a .php extension (name doesn't matter) and put in the following code:

PHP Code:

<?php
$file = "info.txt";
if($_POST['submit']){
$open = fopen($file,"w+");
$content = $_POST['content'];
fwrite($open, $content);
fclose($open); ?>
File updated
<?php }else{ ?>
<form method="post">
<input type="text" Name="content" value="<?php include('info.txt'); ?>">
<input name="submit" type="submit" value="Edit"/>
</form>
<?php } ?>

And then you can post the following code into another file with a .php extension (again, name doesn't matter).

PHP Code:

<?php include('info.txt'); ?>

And I believe that will work for you. If you have any questions, ask!

- Steve

hey Steve,

thank you so much!! I can't wait to try it out on my site! One additional question, since I don't think I can work with txt files on my iphone, surprisingly haha, is there php or other code ability to send an email, in order to update the text file? sounds like that wouldn't really be possible to me, probably because anyone that knows the address can send and get their info on a site, which probably is not a good thing...

Well thank you again!

-Andrew

I've never heard of anything that could be updated by sending an email to an email address, most likely because it would be so insecure.

I don't know why the form wouldn't work, really. Seeing that you don't even have to fiddle around with the text file, and just enter in information in the form using php, it seems like it would work just fine. But I honestly don't know, seeing that I don't have an iPhone.

- Steve

Joomla and drupal have free plugins that are facebook status clones - so if you happen to have your site on either of those then you are in luck!

closing thread because it's now on a spammer list somewhere