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Author Topic: Can a designed on Front Page site be edited and uploaded elsewhere?  (Read 2024 times)
eyler502
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« on: April 21, 2009, 04:13:28 PM »

Hi I currently have a site that I have designed on my home computer on Front Page and I upload it via Front Page.  I am currently training someone to help me as a co-Administrator for my bulletin board (not Front Page related) and I would also like them to be able to modify the main index file only of the web site.  They do not have Front Page and I am wondering if there is another way for them to edit "occasionally" and upload the changes for the site?  They do not know html so I can't just have them go into the Control Panel and edit from the index file there.  If this is not possible, could it be done if they had Front Page installed on their computer?  Thanks for any help you can give!  Thumbs Up
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« Reply #1 on: April 22, 2009, 05:36:53 AM »

Not sure if this would be a good idea unless you really really trust them.  Chances are they would need to have your main account login information, which means they could change anything they wanted to.  For security reasons, I would advise against it or perhaps find another way of getting the updates passed through.
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« Reply #2 on: April 23, 2009, 10:35:45 PM »

If you only want them to modify the content portion of the page, consider using a PHP "include" in your page to include their separate file for the content. They could modify the content file using any editor they wanted and upload the content file using FTP. Then your page would include their content file into the page.

* You would need to rename your page to have a .php file extension.

* Then in your page include the file with this code.

Code:
<?php
  $file
="http://yourdomain.com/includedpagename.htm";
  include (
$file);
?>


* The included page could even be a text file with a .txt extension.

* Their content file can even be on a separate web site, such as the web site space furnished to them by their ISP provider.

* If you want the content file to be on your web site but don't want the content author to have access to all of the files, create a subfolder and place their content file in the subfolder. Then use the LunarPages cPanel control panel to create an FTP user with rights only in that folder. In that case your include code would include the folder name in the path.

Code:
<?php
  $file
="http://yourdomain.com/foldername/includedpagename.htm";
  include (
$file);
?>

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