Creating a Custom CMS - Adding New Pages

[ukscotth]

Hi All,

 

I've been creating sites with custom CMS for a while now and I'm trying to figure out how to let clients create new pages from within the CMS and what the standard method is to do it. I guess it would use mod rewrite but I'm not sure.

 

Any ideas ?

 

Thanks,

 

Scott.

 

 

 

[smoseley]

Simplest way to do this while retaining SEO is with mod_rewrite

 

.htaccess

RewriteRule page/(\w\-)* /page.php?uri=$1 [L,QSA]

 

page.php

$uri = $_GET["uri"];
$uri = mysql_real_escape_string(trim($uri));
$page = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM pages WHERE uri = '{$uri}'");

 

In the admin do something like this:

$title = $_POST["title"];
$uri = strtolower(preg_replace("/[^\w]+/", "-", trim($title));

[ukscotth]

Ok great thanks very much.

 

Would $title be the url ? e.g mysite.com/title.html

[smoseley]

No, $title is the title they enter, e.g. "Read about Our Cool Little Company"

 

$uri would then be auto-generated as "read-about-our-cool-little-company"

 

And the url would be "www.ourcompany.com/page/read-about-our-cool-little-company"

 

 

[ukscotth]

ahh ok great. Il give it a try later. Thanks for your help.