JavaScript Forum

**Spud In Disguise** · 11-01-2006, 06:14 AM

Hello everyone. I am creating a site for some one who isn't very familiar with the workings of website and I need some help making it a bit more user friendly.

Basically there are a few sections on some of the pages that are going to need some changes from time to time - however once I have finished my work (which os for a school project) they will not be capable of editing the HTML files and uploading them themselves. So I was hoping I could create a very simple admin page where there are a few boxes in which one or two values are kept which can be altered simply by typing in a new number or email address etc which would change the content on the site.

I was thinking JS might be the simplest method to do this, saving the values in a normal text file and retrieving them from there.

Does that sound like the best plan (considering the hosting they bought themselves doesn't support many other advanced coding languages). Would anyone be able to help me out with that?

**chrishirst** · 11-01-2006, 07:23 PM

javascript can only save files to the client machine not to the server

**Spud In Disguise** · 11-05-2006, 09:07 AM

Sorry, could you explain that a little more? You mean it can only save files to the computer that is accessing the script, rather than the computer that is hosting it?

What would be a good alternative?

**CouponGuy** · 11-05-2006, 01:21 PM

You said it doesn't support many other coding languages. Which languages does it support? ASP, CGI, Perl, or PHP would be good solutions.

**chrishirst** · 11-05-2006, 05:47 PM

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Originally Posted by Spud In Disguise

Sorry, could you explain that a little more? You mean it can only save files to the computer that is accessing the script, rather than the computer that is hosting it?

Yep, javascript is a clientside operation so has no access to locations on the server.

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Originally Posted by Spud In Disguise

What would be a good alternative?

Any server side code.

**seomumbai** · 11-09-2006, 04:27 AM

i think serever side coding is very good one for implementing this type of code.

**ADAM Web Design** · 11-09-2006, 10:36 AM

Actually, a combination of both would be the best answer.

If you can afford it (and your server supports ASP), there's a Javascript-based WYSIWYG editor at www.innovastudio.com . Basically, the editor created is similar to a vBulletin editor...it has the B, I, U, font color, font style, etc. and so on.

Then you just submit your form and process via ASP.