Ok my uncle just opened up a restaurant and I'm making his website. I have everything covered except he wants a "Blackboard" where he can update each day for the daily specials. He isn't a coder or anything so is there anyway I can create a form where he can enter the data and it will post it on the "Blackboard" page and erase the data from yesterday?

Thanks for any help,
Josh Sibley

Is he capable of creating a flat text file and uploading it? Then make the specials page a php which reads the file and displays the content -- that's the easiest way and uses only very simple php. Or you can use a form and that can write to a text file.

A text file such as .txt? Yeah I can show him that easy. Would he have to upload the file using PHP or is there a way I can let him go to a certain page and use an upload function? Also, how would I go about creating that PHP script. I'm no PHP pro so if you could post a link to a tutorial with that code it would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks again,
Josh Sibley

Originally Posted by buckshot5792

is there anyway I can create a form where he can enter the data and it will post it on the "Blackboard" page and erase the data from yesterday?

Yes.

If you don't need to track previous 'blackboard' entries you can do this just by storing the form data in a flat file then reading it back in to display it.

The form:

<form action="" method="post">
<textarea name="blackboard">
</textarea>
<input type="submit" value="Save" />
</form>

Saving the data:

PHP Code:

$blackboardtxt = $_POST['blackboard'];

$fh = fopen('blackboard.txt', 'w');
fwrite($fh, $blackboardtxt);
fclose($fh); 


Retrieving the data:

PHP Code:

$blackboardtxt = file_get_contents('blackboard.txt');

echo $blackboardtxt; 


Thanks. I'll try that out tomorrow and let you know how it goes and if I have anymore questions.

You guys are really helpful and quick!

I suppose you could have an additional directory, a blog via Wordpress which is linked to the main index via an Iframe that shows the latest developments

Originally Posted by dagaul101

I suppose you could have an additional directory, a blog via Wordpress which is linked to the main index via an Iframe that shows the latest developments

That's a good idea. I'll keep that in mind for a fall back plan.

Originally Posted by buckshot5792

That's a good idea. I'll keep that in mind for a fall back plan.

Using wordpress to display once piece of content is massive overkill. It should take less than twenty lines of code to implement this.