[Tfug] A Simple CMS

[Paul Scott]

John Morrow wrote:
> On 4/4/06, William Stott <WStott at ventanamed.com> wrote:
>   
>> I know of nothing that would use flatfile to store data that fits that
>> category. What I do know of is Plone CMS (plone.corg) which has so many
>> goodies that you may be overwhelmed by the bells and whistles if you let
>> it. I haven't heard of anyone who WANTED a flatfile system since I
>> worked with a custom app that was run on OpenVMS. I am curious, why
>> flatfile only?
>>     
>
>
> Ah yes, well, you see - I'm doing a tiny little web site for my son's
> cubscout pack. It is hosted on a little service that provides very free
> webhosting but very limited resources to non-profits in the area. While I
> get linux, apache, ssh, sftp/scp, php and all the bandwidth I need I get no
> DBs (or perl or https for that matter). I have setup a simple site that I
> manage with a bunch o' perl and php on my system and dump the static pages
> on the free webhosting system. I want to set it up to be managed on the
> webhost directly. I also want it to be idiot-proof (if that's possible) so
> that I can turn it over to the pack and walk away from it when my son has
> moved on.
>   
I, also have rolled my own PHP code to read flat text files that clients 
use to update their web sites.  I have some include files of functions 
to generate the relevant HTML.  I would be glad to share any of this.  
See SusanArtemis.com for example.

Paul Scott