user's simple entry onto a webpage?

**HWL** · 06-16-2010, 02:42 AM

What I want to do is for a webpage - for a client to securely post a number (in this case a current price) into a page on their website.
In this case my client for whom I host a domain wants to be able to easily post a price daily for a commodity of theirs. FTP and HTML is beyond them and I havent found a tiny CMS method to do something this small (yet). Present alternative is an email blast.
Ideas? Thank you.

**azoomer** · 06-16-2010, 03:20 AM

I think publishing in Wordpress could be easy to learn for your client

**HWL** · 06-16-2010, 03:46 AM

too much fluff unfortunately. A maybe for now
Thanks

**bluewalrus** · 06-16-2010, 04:02 AM

You can do this with PHP you don't need any special script particularly...

Can you post some sample html of how you'd want to use it and I'll make a sample php coding?

**HWL** · 06-16-2010, 04:15 AM

On the page http://www.goldbuyinggirl.com/enterGBG.htm (or a new php page), I just need the client to enter an amount daily, like $100, into a "space" on the page, so her clients can se it.

**bluewalrus** · 06-16-2010, 03:54 PM

I haven't tested this so let me know if there's any error or any questions.

To update the price the user should load

http://domain.com/?price=anythingcanbehere

PHP Code:


<?php

    if (isset($_POST['access']) && $_POST['access'] = "password") {

    //this assumes the users password is password for access. You can also hash this with md5 if you want or some other method of your choosing

        if (isset($_POST['new_price']) && $_POST['new_price'] !="") {

            $price = $_POST['new_price'];

            $current_price = "price.txt";

            file_put_contents($current_price, $price);

        }

    }

if (isset($_GET['price']) && $_GET['price'] !="") {

    ?>

     <form action="<?php echo $_SERVER['PHP_SELF'];?>" method="post">

    Input the New Price to be displayed:<input type="text" name="new_price" /><br />

     Input your Password:<input type="password" name="access" />

     </form>

<?php

} else {

$current_price = "price.txt";

$price_is = file_get_contents($current_price);

?>

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">

<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">



<head>

    <style type="text/css">

    #price {

    /*style price however you want here*/

    }

    </style>

    <title>Contact The Gold Buying Girl For A Gold Party or To Sell Gold</title>

    <meta name="ROBOTS" content="INDEX,FOLLOW">

    <meta name="description" content="Gold Buying Girl, Host a gold party in Houston, gold buyer, mailing gold, gold parties in Houston, TX">

    <meta name="keywords" content="Gold Buying Girl, gold buyer in houston, host a gold party, mailing gold, gold parties in Houston, TX">

    <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=windows-1252">

    <meta http-equiv="Content-Language" content="en-us">



<script src="Scripts/swfobject_modified.js" type="text/javascript"></script>

</head>

<body background="images/background60.jpg" topmargin="0" link="#FFFFFF" vlink="#FFFFFF" alink="#000000">



<div align="center">

    <table border="0" width="1053" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="table2">

        <tr>

            <td width="211" rowspan="2">

<img border="0" src="images/gold-buying-girl-home.png" width="221" height="255" alt="Gold Buyer in Houston"></td>

            <td width="832">

<img border="0" src="images/gold-party-purse.jpg" width="594" height="204" align="right" alt="Gold Buyer and Gold Parties"></td>

        </tr>



        <tr>

            <td align="right" width="832">

                <p align="center">

                <a href="index.html"><img border="0" src="/images/button-home.png" width="185" height="51" alt="Houston Gold Parties"></a>

                <a href="about_gold_buying_girl.html"><img border="0" src="images/button-host-a-gold-party.png" width="192" height="51" alt="Host A Gold Party"></a>

                <a href="faq.html"><img border="0" src="images/button-faq.png" width="181" height="51"></a>

                <a href="contact_gold_buying_girl.html"><img border="0" src="images/button-contact.png" width="192" height="51"></a>

                <a href="gold-party-testimonials.html"><img border="0" src="images/button-testimonials.png" width="192" height="51"></a>

                <a href="contact_gold_buying_girl.html"><img border="0" src="images/button-appointment.png" width="240" height="51">



                </a>

                <a href="welcome.htm"> </a><a href="contact_gold_buying_girl.html"><img border="0" src="images/charity.png" width="192" height="51"></a>

                <a href="become_a_gold_buyer.html"><img border="0" src="images/button-gbg.png" width="192" height="51"></a>

              </td>

        </tr>

    </table>

</div>

<div align="center">

    <table border="0" width="1050" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="table1">



        <tr>

            <td valign="top" rowspan="3" width="246">

</td>

            <td valign="top" rowspan="3" width="30">&nbsp;

            </td>

        </tr>

        <tr>

            <td align="left" width="768">

            &nbsp;



            <p>&nbsp;

            </td>

        </tr>

        <tr>

            <td align="center" width="768" valign="middle" >

              <b>

              <font color="#FFFFFF" size="3" face="Georgia"><a href="http://www.cabida.com/gbgcal/cks.php" target="_blank"><i>View

            the Calendar</i></a></font>

              <i><font color="#FFFFFF" face="Georgia" size="2"> (opens

                in a new tab or window)</font></i></b><br><br>



            <p><i><b><a href="calendarupdateform.htm"><font face="Georgia" color="#FFFFFF" size="3">Send a Calendar

            Update to the Gold Buying Girl</font></a></b></i></p>

            <p><b><font color="#FFFFFF" size="3" face="Georgia"><a href="http://www.cabida.com/gbgcal/calen.php"><br>

    <i>Maintain the Calendar</i></a><i> </i></font>

            <i><font color="#FFFFFF" face="Georgia" size="2">(requires

            a password)</font></i></b>

            </td>

        </tr>

        <tr>



            <td valign="top" width="246">

               I have not idea where you want the price to show up but ummmm here? <div id="price"><?php echo $price_is; ?></div>

</td>

            <td valign="top" width="30">

            </td>

            <td align="center" width="768">

            

            

            

            </td>

        </tr>

    </table>

</div>

<p align="center">



&nbsp;</p>

<script type="text/javascript">

<!--

swfobject.registerObject("FlashID");

//-->

</script>

</body>

</html>

<?php 

}

?>

**HWL** · 06-16-2010, 04:27 PM

thanks....
I created a page on the domain from your code called price.php, which is now chmod'ed to 764.
When I go to ../?price=100 and enter, I get no password challenge and it puts me back to the home page, and when I go back to price.php I see no changes.

Advice?
Thank you

**bluewalrus** · 06-16-2010, 04:30 PM

Oh yea forgot to mention you'll need to make a price.txt with permissions of... 600 i think.

Can you post a link, not sure from your description what is happening?

**HWL** · 06-16-2010, 06:47 PM

http://www.goldbuyinggirl.com/price.php
the php page has permissions of 764
the price.txt file is 600
the files are all in the same folder

thanks

**bluewalrus** · 06-16-2010, 06:56 PM

opps I forgot the submit button on the form there. This code is the same with the submit button

PHP Code:


<?php
    if (isset($_POST['access']) && $_POST['access'] = "password") {
    //this assumes the users password is password for access. You can also hash this with md5 if you want or some other method of your choosing
        if (isset($_POST['new_price']) && $_POST['new_price'] !="") {
            $price = $_POST['new_price'];
            $current_price = "price.txt";
            file_put_contents($current_price, $price);
        }
    }
if (isset($_GET['price']) && $_GET['price'] !="") {
    ?>
     <form action="<?php echo $_SERVER['PHP_SELF'];?>" method="post">
    Input the New Price to be displayed:<input type="text" name="new_price" /><br />
     Input your Password:<input type="password" name="access" /><br />
     <input type="submit" />
     </form>
<?php
} else {
$current_price = "price.txt";
$price_is = file_get_contents($current_price);
?>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">

<head>
    <style type="text/css">
    #price {
    /*style price however you want here*/
    }
    </style>
    <title>Contact The Gold Buying Girl For A Gold Party or To Sell Gold</title>
    <meta name="ROBOTS" content="INDEX,FOLLOW">
    <meta name="description" content="Gold Buying Girl, Host a gold party in Houston, gold buyer, mailing gold, gold parties in Houston, TX">
    <meta name="keywords" content="Gold Buying Girl, gold buyer in houston, host a gold party, mailing gold, gold parties in Houston, TX">
    <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=windows-1252">
    <meta http-equiv="Content-Language" content="en-us">

<script src="Scripts/swfobject_modified.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
</head>
<body background="images/background60.jpg" topmargin="0" link="#FFFFFF" vlink="#FFFFFF" alink="#000000">

<div align="center">
    <table border="0" width="1053" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="table2">
        <tr>
            <td width="211" rowspan="2">
<img border="0" src="images/gold-buying-girl-home.png" width="221" height="255" alt="Gold Buyer in Houston"></td>
            <td width="832">
<img border="0" src="images/gold-party-purse.jpg" width="594" height="204" align="right" alt="Gold Buyer and Gold Parties"></td>
        </tr>

        <tr>
            <td align="right" width="832">
                <p align="center">
                <a href="index.html"><img border="0" src="/images/button-home.png" width="185" height="51" alt="Houston Gold Parties"></a>
                <a href="about_gold_buying_girl.html"><img border="0" src="images/button-host-a-gold-party.png" width="192" height="51" alt="Host A Gold Party"></a>
                <a href="faq.html"><img border="0" src="images/button-faq.png" width="181" height="51"></a>
                <a href="contact_gold_buying_girl.html"><img border="0" src="images/button-contact.png" width="192" height="51"></a>
                <a href="gold-party-testimonials.html"><img border="0" src="images/button-testimonials.png" width="192" height="51"></a>
                <a href="contact_gold_buying_girl.html"><img border="0" src="images/button-appointment.png" width="240" height="51">

                </a>
                <a href="welcome.htm"> </a><a href="contact_gold_buying_girl.html"><img border="0" src="images/charity.png" width="192" height="51"></a>
                <a href="become_a_gold_buyer.html"><img border="0" src="images/button-gbg.png" width="192" height="51"></a>
              </td>
        </tr>
    </table>
</div>
<div align="center">
    <table border="0" width="1050" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="table1">

        <tr>
            <td valign="top" rowspan="3" width="246">
</td>
            <td valign="top" rowspan="3" width="30">&nbsp;
            </td>
        </tr>
        <tr>
            <td align="left" width="768">
            &nbsp;

            <p>&nbsp;
            </td>
        </tr>
        <tr>
            <td align="center" width="768" valign="middle" >
              <b>
              <font color="#FFFFFF" size="3" face="Georgia"><a href="http://www.cabida.com/gbgcal/cks.php" target="_blank"><i>View
            the Calendar</i></a></font>
              <i><font color="#FFFFFF" face="Georgia" size="2"> (opens
                in a new tab or window)</font></i></b><br><br>

            <p><i><b><a href="calendarupdateform.htm"><font face="Georgia" color="#FFFFFF" size="3">Send a Calendar
            Update to the Gold Buying Girl</font></a></b></i></p>
            <p><b><font color="#FFFFFF" size="3" face="Georgia"><a href="http://www.cabida.com/gbgcal/calen.php"><br>
    <i>Maintain the Calendar</i></a><i> </i></font>
            <i><font color="#FFFFFF" face="Georgia" size="2">(requires
            a password)</font></i></b>
            </td>
        </tr>
        <tr>

            <td valign="top" width="246">
               I have not idea where you want the price to show up but ummmm here? <div id="price"><?php echo $price_is; ?></div>
</td>
            <td valign="top" width="30">
            </td>
            <td align="center" width="768">
            
            
            
            </td>
        </tr>
    </table>
</div>
<p align="center">

&nbsp;</p>
<script type="text/javascript">
<!--
swfobject.registerObject("FlashID");
//-->
</script>
</body>
</html>
<?php 
}
?>

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