I would like to give editing access to some of the staff on my site. However, I do not wish to give my staff FTP access, which is the only way I can access one of my sites. I need a free thing that my staff will be able to login and edit the HTML of certain pages and of course save teh changes. I do have PHP and mySQL enabled on the server. Does anyone know of such an onlin editer?

Help would be appreciated. Oh, and I think I posted this in the wrong section... my appologies (if I could delete this I would).

This post has been edited by miCRoSCoPiC^eaRthLinG: Mar 4 2006, 03:32 PM

are you hosting on astahost, or any other cpanel hosting?

if you are you could quite easily give ftp access to one folder in your account. then give the username and password to your staff for that. go to the ftp manager in the cpanel and add an account for the folder you want.

hope that helps

Not all my staff are able to get hold of FTP access, and sometimes it's easier if they cold make neccessary changes via the web.

You're best going for a simple CMS (Content Management System) so that they can edit the content when they login.

Yes, that's jus twhat I'm looking for but I can't find anything.

UI've been hearing CMS what does that actually mean or where can I get that. I wanna try it out maybe it can help my problems. Can someone please post a URL?

CMS = content management system. If you are hosted here at astahost, you can install them through cpanel under the Fantastico menu and will be ready to go. Basically a CMS (such as freePhP, Drupal, Mambo Open Source, php-nuke, etc) lets you build a webpage and update content quickly and easily.

Once you install a CMS, they usually/always have a basic template style. You can either obtain generic templates from their site or other sites to use, modify an existing template, or make your own. This basically is the design and layout of your site.

Once you have a template created, you can basically log in and simply click "add content" (or something similar) and add a page. A CMS allows you to take a blog-like approach to a webpage. It keeps news posts and sub pages all organized for you and you simply use online forms to make the various pages of the site.

This would be great if you have employees that need different levels of access, as you can usually give each username it's own level of access. Some may be able to create/edit all posts, others only submit news posts that need to be accepted by higher ups. A CMS system allows you to make a site that is 100% congruent, easy to manage, and well organized. You basically can keep it updated completely with only accessing it through web interfaces if you so choose (after you have a template set up).

For more info on a couple popular CMS options:
PHP-Nuke
Mambo
Drupal <-Note: Drupal's site was not responding when I posted this...

Btw, don't go for phpnuke if you can help it. I have bad memories... *shudders*