如何允许客户通过同一网页更新网页上的文本内容

Question

Hi I have been rattling my brain for hours online trying to figure out how to allow my client to edit the textual content on the site I am creating for them all I need is a text area that can be edit directly or a seperate text box that once my client has input their text and clicked submit the textual content above is replaced with the new content. The content needs to be saved permenatly vistors to the site can see.

I am at college so I am still learning and any suggestions would be a great help thank you.

Answer 1

There are multiple way to achieve what you want. But since you tagged your question with PHP and database, i will give you an example of how to do it using these.

This is the simplest way to do it, if you want to get something more complex, you should look into getting a framework like symfony or silex.

In order to display the text to the user, you need to :

1. Connect to the mysql database
2. Fetch the message form the database table and return it in a variable

To update the text.

1. Return the text from textarea to a PHP page.
2. Connect the same way to the database.
3. Run an UPDATE SQL statement to change the value.

All these can be made in a single page, Look in these resources to make it:

• http://www.siteground.com/tutorials/php-mysql/
• http://www.tutorialspoint.com/index.htm