Looking For A Script For A Cms System

[Some_Guy_]

Here's the deal:

 

I'm making a site for a used car dealership. They want to update their inventory themselves, and they want it to be as ridiculously simple as possible, as in fill in a form and *poocrap the car is listed on their site. Clicking on a thumbnail on a page (such as GM Trucks) will pop up another page with all of the details of the vehicle.

 

I've checked out a few CMS systems, such as PHP-nuke, and it doesn't seem to do what I want. I don't want to post news, I don't want users (other than my client) to have to log in, or even have the option to. I don't need the ability to post comments, etc. Everything I've tried seems to want to do all of this. Am I just not setting them up right? Is there some other way I should go about it?

[d3bruts1d]

Just write something in PHP or ASP. Have the info entered into a database, and edited/deleted/added as vehicles are sold or come in new/used.

[Some_Guy_]

Problem with that: I don't know PHP or have the time to learn right now - I'm on a pretty strict time limit.

[ime]

Money at times can get a man far...

[fubar8358]

www.hotscripts.com

[jpiccolo]

with the nuke systems you can turn off registration, and take the login block out.

[Some_Guy_]

Yeah, I've been looking through hotscripts. Everything I've found so far either doesn't work for me, or else I can't seem to set it up right, or costs an arm and /or a leg.

 

I've disabled pretty much everything I could in PHP-Nuke and Post-Nuke, but I still can't seem to do anything with them. Maybe I'm just too dense to work with them.

[jpiccolo]

if you dont want to post news,have people log in, or post comments, then why do you need a cms

[stew]

CMS = Content Management System

 

CMS' aren't simply for user interaction and news posting, they are used by companies (microsoft for isntance) for a huge number of different tasks, some as mundane as posting news, and others for controlling the content of an entire website and storing the content in a database and generating the pages rather than having a web designer sit down and copy and paste from a word doc into html.

 

CMS' rule for big sites.

 

As for your own situation a simple script based upon this sort of pseudocode (god im going back to programing here )

 

1. Get data

2. Process & store data

3. Display data

 

refine step 1

 

1.1 use a field to enter car model

1.2 use field to enter car year

1.3 use field to enter etc...

 

refine step 2

 

2.1 validate field 1

2.2 place data of field one into table number 001 row 1

2.3 validate field 2

2.4 place data of field two into table 001 row 2

etc... unsing a new table for each car

 

refine step 3

 

3.1 display table 001 row 1

3.2 display table 001 row 2

 

thats the basic structure of what your looking for... as for putting it into practise i cant help you much on that one but its a simple thing to do parsaing form data storing it in database and displaying it on a page

[Some_Guy_]

Screw the deadline. I bought a PHP/MySQL book and I'm going to plug away at it over the next few days and make something that's actually useful to me.

 

I just noticed in my original message it says "and *poocrap"

 

That was supposed to be poof enclosed by asterisks... sometimes you gotta wonder about the censure of this forum.