Hi all, Im new to this so im very sorry if im in the wrong area. Essenially I'd like to be able to update a web page by using a form or similar. i do not have a database setup on this site.

Im not sure if php is the answer - can anybody help with advising the correct code I should be using or pointing me in the direction of a good tutorial.

Thanks for you help.

I just started learning PHP a few months ago, during that time I learnt that PHP can do almost anything! It's great.

It depends how you mean by 'update'. If you mean you want to be able to post text to a web page using a form. Then yeah PHP can do that.
First you need to decide where the form is going to post the text to.
Since you already said that you don't have a MySQL Database, you could store the text into an ASCII file.

So basically, the form posts the results to a PHP script, which then opens your ASCII file and saves the text inside it.

Then your web page would use some simple PHP code to then open the ASCII file and display it's contents on the web page.

I highly recommend this site for learning PHP
http://www.tizag.com/phpT/

you'll see it has tutorials for File Open, File Write, File Close
which are the PHP basics for storing data into text files.

Hope that helps!

If you have the ability to use a MySQL database, a Content Management System sounds like what you're looking for. I like Etomite , it's simple and flexible.

A nice content management script is Cutenews, jsut google for it. No database need, easy to install and writes everything to a text file.

Cute News is not a CMS (Content Manage System). It is a news publishing system and It's real basic.

True true, I take it back, easy on the horse feed mohamoud!

I was simply making a suggestion of a handy way to update pages......

Apologies for the incorrect terminology I shall go and bleach my mouth now......