Allowing a user to change content by himself

[pankajt]

Hi Friends,

I need a scripts which allows a user to Change a particular content on a webpage by his own content.

For example if there is a image of person x and he wants to change that image to his image....he has to just upload and a new webpage will be genrated with his image on that old page......

Can anyone knows how to do it??

Thanx
pankaj

[boogyman]

this can be done but there are number of things to consider

the first is what will this image be used for? meaning will this image be used as an "avator" type image next to his/her name, will it be used for just getting the HTML code to copy and paste into another site?

also you need to know where the image is coming from, where its going... meaning is it coming from the users hard drive or is it just a link from some other website? if its the former, then a server-side programming language like php/asp will be necessary, and also if you wish for that image to stay beyond the current time the user is on that screen / website there are other stipulations

as you can see there are a number of factors that go into something being displayed, so until you elaborate on what you mean we cannot truly help you solve the problem.

[Medyman]

search this forum for more info/suggestions/reviews of various content management systems. it might be overkill if it's just one image, but if there is more varied content, it might be worthwhile.

There are several open-source free CMS applications out there. My personal favorite is ExpressionEngine (http://www.expressionengine.com/index.php?affiliate=visualbinary). The is a free "core" version that you might want to look at.

[djr33]

If it is just one image, then you should create a text file on the server, let your customer change that text, and then get the URL from that text file when the page loads.
However, they could change the html as well like that, unless that's overwhelming.

[pankajt]

First let me say sorry for not coming to this post and not thanking you guys in time :) ..

Guys see I wann have a page where a pic will be there and the user should be able to upload his pic (and naming it same as the previous pic) into the directory to replace and overwrite the previous pic.

And then his pic shud be there.....

Can anybody tell me soon??

TIA
pankaj

[pankajt]

djr33 your solution looks good can you please explain a bit more.....

[pankajt]

please ekplain