Tracking Forums, Newsgroups, Maling Lists
Home Scripts Tutorials Tracker Forums
  Advanced Search
  HOME    TRACKER    PHP


SuperbHosting.net have generously sponsored dedicated servers to ensure a reliable and scalable dedicated hosting solution for BigResource.com.





Error Management : Php-pgsql.


My goal : obtain the error message if the connection fail.

## my code :

<?php

$cnxString = "host=localhost port=5432 dbname=toto user=atlante
password=aiThoo3g";

$pgsql_conn = pg_connect($cnxString, PGSQL_CONNECT_FORCE_NEW);

if ($pgsql_conn) {
print "Connexion réussie à : " . pg_host($pgsql_conn) . "<br/>
";
} else {
echo pg_last_notice($pgsql_conn);
exit;
}
?>

## if «php_value display_errors 1» the screen result is this one :

Warning: pg_connect() [function.pg-connect]: Unable to connect to
PostgreSQL server: FATAL: la base de données «toto» n'existe pas in
/home/willou/public_html/atlanpolis/wwws/tools/checkdb.php on line 5

Warning: pg_last_notice() expects parameter 1 to be resource, boolean
given in /home/willou/public_html/atlanpolis/wwws/tools/checkdb.php on
line 10

## If not, i haven't got any result. The message just appears in my
logs

The return of pg_connect not seems to be an connection resource when
the connection fails.




View Complete Forum Thread with Replies

Related Forum Messages:
--with-pgsql=WHERE?
I need an installation with Postgres support, and was happy to find in
my phpinfo that there was a
--with-pgsql=shared
option in the config line.

but I still got "call to undefined function: pgsql_connect (4.3.11)

So I figured whatev, I'll put a new installation (PHP5, in fact), but I
always fail config with:
Cannot find libpq-fe.h. Please specify correct Postgresql installation path

'course i looked in my handy old webmin to see where Postgres might
be... tried various paths I found in various places
--with-pgsql=/var/lib/pgsql/
--with-pgsql=/usr/share/pgsql
--with-pgsql=/usr/bin/psql
obviously not a lib, but getting desparate...

View Replies !
PHP Installation With Pgsql
I got PostgreSQL installed and now I'm trying to get PHP installed too. I do ./configure --with-pgsql and everything works fine. But when I do make, I get this error:

ext/mysql/libmysql/my_lib.o(.text+0x37a): In function `my_dir':
/home/marc/extract/php-4.3.1/ext/mysql/libmysql/my_lib.c:169: undefined reference to `errno'
ext/mysql/libmysql/my_lib.o(.text+0x546): In function `my_stat':
/home/marc/extract/php-4.3.1/ext/mysql/libmysql/my_lib.c:588: undefined reference to `errno'
ext/mysql/libmysql/my_tempnam.o(.text+0x79):/home/marc/extract/php-4.3.1/ext/mysql/libmysql/my_tempnam.c:108: more undefined references to `errno' follow
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
make: *** [sapi/cgi/php] Error 1

I need php installed soon. I don't know what is causing this error to occur.

View Replies !
Hosting PHP And PGSQL DB
Can anyone recommend somewhere that offers cheap or even free web hosting for PHP scripting with a PGSQL database? I am looking to build a small website with some images and dynamic content, such as a forum/message board and wondered what it would cost me for this? I used to use themooseisloose for hosting (one-off payment of £2.77 GBP), but have been alerted that have gone bust (at some point at the end of last year). I've have googled, but was just wondering if anyone had any positive experiences of hosts that will allow this setup mentioned cheaply.

View Replies !
My Dad Wants PHP & MySQL Or PgSQL Hosting
To my surprise last month, my dad wanted to start dabbling in PHP and
MySQL or pgSQL. I've been helping him out a bit. He's into athletic
medicine and wants to have a website to help athletes and physical
therapists improve performance. His current web hosting provider --
Earthlink -- doesn't give him anything but PHP 3.0.x. I want to get
him at least on PHP 4.2.x (or better) along with either MySQL or
PostgreSQL (pgSQL) support.

I've done some googling on this, but I wanted real user opinions on
cost, customer support, uptime, etc. At this point he's just looking
at something that suits him somewhere between hobbyist and early sole
proprietorship strength. Shared web hosting would suit him fine. Cost
might be an issue for him initially.

He's going to need some sort of simplistic web interface to be able to
create databases, tables, and user accounts.

View Replies !
Pgsql Socket Timeout
I am encountering a problem with PHP5 and postgresql on a fedora core 3 box. I have a database driven report application written in PHP5 on a remote server. This application allows a user to submit a sql statement created by php based on user input parameters to the postgresql server. The application works great as long as the database server can return the result set within what appears to be 2 minutes. If the query takes longer than two minutes to execute the database server will eventually finish the work *but* no rows of data appear on the web page.

I am thinking that the network socket connection between the php engine and the postgresql database server gets dropped after two minutes and that is way the results never arrive at the php page. If you think this might be a plausible explanation can you provide some assistance as to how I can go about adressing this problem?

View Replies !
Ubuntu Php4-pgsql
I found some strange kind of mild install bug when installing Ubuntu 5.04 php4-pgsql module (the module that connects PHP4 to PostgreSQL). You may encounter the error:

Call to undefined function: pg_connect()

No amount of using Synaptic Package Manager would fix this for me. The solution was all at command line under 'root' account:

$ apt-get update
$ apt-get install php4-pgsql
$ /etc/init.d/postgresql restart
$ /etc/init.d/apache2 restart

View Replies !
How To Increase PHP/pgsql Develop. Performance?
Can anyone give me recomendations on software that can increase my performance when devenlopping Php and Postgres applications?
I'm currently working on a big project and its taking too long (3 people working on it).

View Replies !
MySQL And PGSQL And Hostname Question
i would like the thoughts of some folks with more experience
than i have.

i want to learn pgsql. i have some vb and msaccess experience and
would like to learn how to use php and pgsql to develop some nice
website / application functionality.

however, i'm not sure the hurdle of relatively miniscule documentation
and tutorials is worth the effort. i'm now thinking i should just use
mysql to start and, if the need really arises, move over to pgsql.

i'm busy with a lot of stuff right now - regular job, starting a
business, developing a web site for the business, learning graphics
programs, living life, blah, blah, blah.

what is your opinion? go with the better documented db and develop
more quickly but have to possibly switch over later when time may be
more available and retain my hair or bite the bullet and go with
pgsql?

differing opinions are appreciated and encouraged so i can evaluate
them based on my own set of values.

also i am trying to set up localhost as my url so my hardcoded links
work on my local win98 machine (actual webserve is linux).

host.sam is as follows...

127.0.0.1 localhost www.easyautodeals.com

my apache httpd.conf file shows the following for ServerName:

ServerName www.easyautodeals.com

however, when i type easyautodeals into my web browser, i go straight
to my actual web server and not to my "localhost" location.

View Replies !
Irritating Warning On ->PEAR->DB->PGSQL
I am getting following message from pear. I am running RedHat 8.0, PostgreSQL is 7.3.2 PHP Version 4.2.2 and pear:db 1.6.5.

Warning: pg_errormessage(): supplied argument is not a valid
PostgreSQL link resource in /usr/share/pear/DB/pgsql.php on line 449

Any idea.

View Replies !
PGSQL 7.4.8 PHP 4.3.4 & Apache 2.0.49 Segmentation Fault With Client Certs
Having an issue that is specific to PHP compiled with PGSQL support
with versions noted in subject line. I understand that there are many
variables to consider here but believe I have narrowed down the Apache
Client Cert failures to my PHP/PGSQL build.

1. Apache PHP without PGSQL works as expected using client certificates

2. Apache PHP with PGSQL works fine with standard SSL connections

3 Apache PHP with PGSQL fails with client certificates - no output

other than Segmentation faults in the apache error logs as follows:

[Wed Nov 30 23:26:57 2005] [notice] suEXEC mechanism enabled (wrapper:
/usr/sbin/suexec2)....

I also performed same tests on another instance of Apache/PHP/PGSQL
which was version 2.0.54 of apache and PHP/PGSQL versions same as
subject line with same exact results.

Any ideas as to the source of this problem and suggestions for
tests/fixes are greatly appreciated. There are no errors in any of the
logs other than what I have included so it's very difficult to see what
is wrong. All I know for sure is that I am able to reproduce the
results on more than one machine.

View Replies !
DB Management
i've got a mysql table (or set of tables) which are used for logging, when it get's full the request starts to lag while it's searched. Therefore periodically I want to back it up. However, say I set a routine which back's it all up to file and then truncates (as so to reset the id) the table, ok.

But say whilst this is being done more entries are added and are not backed up. One point is, a certain period of time worth of log's need to be retained for frequency checking.

Considerations:
- If an entry is added whilst the table is being truncated, what happens.
- If only use delete entry, then at what point does the id run into trouble.
- Is it crazy to think about using two tables and just rotate them.

View Replies !
Ad Management
I am looking for something that I can place banner ads, rotate them and keep statistics with. Anyone have any ideas of a good system.

I would pefer something free because our site does not generate any money yet. I was looking into phpadsnew 2.0.4, but I cannot seem to find install instructions.

View Replies !
Memory Management
I've ran into a problem with my MySQL Class. Otherwise a very useful and easy tool, but when you get to handle large amounts of data with it, it will slow your site down significantly. It contains three functions, from which the SelectAll() is the troublesome 'cause it returns all results of a query. What it basicly does is it piles all data inside array. Each result is an array, inside the main array. This makes it easy to go through with loops.

But imagine what happens if I get 10000 results. I've tried to optimize it and basicly the SelectAll() is only a few lines long. Still it slows down. I've tried to search for articles about the issue but nothing, for this kind of thing, has come up.

View Replies !
Content Management
I've been looking a bit at PHP-based Content Management Solutions (CMS), including Midgard, PHPNuke, etc.

Has anyone dealt with these, and what do you find better in re. functionality, implementation, ect.?

We have a situation where we would have only about 4-5 content editors, with tasks like updating job postings, occasionally editing product info, adding new press releases, etc. Nothing terribly advanced.

View Replies !
AD Management Scripts
I've been looking for a while for an open source banner rotation script. I want the rotation ads to be included on different areas of my side via php includes. I also want the users to be able to manage their ads and place ads for a fee (through paypal), and an admin panel would also be handy.

Does anyone know of a script like this or maybe something similar?

View Replies !
Document Management In PHP?
Does anybody know about a good open source form manager (document
management) in PHP/MySQL? I have to build online admin pages for couple
of custom form types which are currently on the paper.

Basicaly, it's about seminar event management with teachers, students
and sponsors. I have lots of (paper) documents with details about each
of them and I'm looking for a quick way to build online admin pages that
would have these features:

1) administer forms (documents)
2) building relationships between documents
3) advanced search engine for reports

View Replies !
Management Scripts
I'm writting some scripts to management users on server
throuh www. I need to call some functions like "adduser",
"rmuser" etc. in my scripts. I'd like to know the best way
I could do this. I want secure sripts. Could anyone help me
to find solution to do this?

View Replies !
PHP Memory Management
I'm new to PHP programming (coming from C++); and all is well, except when
it comes to memory management. Particularly, with passing objects/arrays in
and out of functions. I've had so many unexpected results because of this
feature, that I'm almost pissed off, almost.

Things like, I have a class, with some callbacks (which default to functions
inside the class). But when the default functions were called, $this
couldn't see the values of the member variables. I found that my calling
array($this, "fun") (for use in a call to call_user_func) was creating a
copy of $this and thus it was a copy of the variables. Fixed with a $cb =
array(); $cb[0] = &$this; etc...

Later, with more problems, I found that $x = new y; made two copies (I've
assumed from the testing I'd done). One where it calls the constructor, and
then one when it copies it into $x. Fixed with a $x = &new y; (I consider
myself lucky to have discovered this as it could very easily have gone
unnoticed, had I not been setting up a reference to this in the constructor)
Which makes me worry that there are other places I don't know about!

....and lots more of course...

I guess with a little more care, it will be obvious where a problem exists,
but as I am a newbie, I know it will continue to destroy me.

Are there any tools or memory management functions that will allow me to see
exactly how many copies of various objects/classes/strings I have. Or a way
to dump a memory allocation when it happens or anything. I'm fearful that
there may be millions of copies of my classes and such that I won't know
about until it gets released - and two users go to the web site at the same
time and cause the server to run out of memory.

C++ is so much easier, I know exactly what memory is allocated, when and
where, and when it will be destroyed. Whoever invented garbage collection
and all that; a can of comeuppance upon them (not the good kind).

View Replies !
PHP Website Management
I have just bought a small website written with php & html. The
vendors advised me that once I uploaded it to my website I could
customise all the templates to give it whatever look I wanted.

As a novice, I had no idea how difficult this would be - due to the
fact that a php website is very disjointed.

Can anyone tell me of any software I can download that will enable me
to manage my website so that I can see the structure in it easily and
make changes simply.

(I thought I was buying 60 sets of templates but what I bought was a
site with 60 pages).

View Replies !
DNS Management Software
I'm looking for a web based software to manage my BIND 9.2 DNS server.
The software should have an interface to add/remove/edit records and
also a user login so that different users can manage different
domains. I have found some various systems related to DNS on the web,
such as phpdomain, but it seems mainly targeted to registering
domainnames and then pointing them to a dns server, not actually
setting the dns server up once that is done.

View Replies !
Using PHP For Session Management
I've just started using PHP for session management (done alot of it in
ISAPI/Delphi for many years).

My question is this:

I want to have a number of variables, for example $customer_id which
are session variables.

The PHP book I have been reading talks about
session_register('customer_id'), but I have seen people comment that
this is bad practice.

How should I approach this ?

I've tried putting $customer_id = $_SESSION['customer_id'], but have
found it difficult to rewrite the changed value back into the _SESSION
array at the end of the request.

Is there any way to get around this ?

I'm running PHP in a CGI mode under IIS ....

View Replies !
Date Management
I'm trying to create 2 pages for a website where you can input dates in 4 seperate boxes on one page which then gets written to a xml file and then those dates get retrieved from the xml file and placed in the appropriate place on the second page.
The section of the page where the dates are to be placed looks a little like this: Code:

View Replies !
Content Management With PHP
I have almost 1000 entries on a table in a MySQL DB. What I want to do is to display items from a row, depending on the URL.

For Example, I want this url:
http://localhost/players.php?lookup=23

to display certain attributes set into the table (ID,Firstname,Lastname), etc.

I'm using the following code for http://localhost/players.php?lookup=23 and it's not working: Code:

View Replies !
$_content Management
i am I'm trying to create a simple content management system for a online store I am building w/ Y! store tags.

I want to use the $_GET array and setup a script such as http://store.com/script.php?item=A , where A = item number. The script would get the value and then display the simple HTML layout but change all instances of "itemnumber" in the store tag HTML to the value of ITEM in the script (A).

store tags are inserted into the html layout such as <|-- ytag_picture=itemnumer --|> ..This would allow me to not have to make one seperate HTML page for each item.

View Replies !
Page Management
i want to use the same page for login and messege that user is loged in for my site. how can i access the sumbitted data on on the same page.

View Replies !
Picture Management
What I need to do is when I upload a new record to mysql database i need it to upload 7 pictures to a folder in /images/"ref no"/ .and then rename from a to g. I also need thumbnails to be created called as to gs (a small to g small). It would be great if i could get a program to upload them, resise them, rename them and create the thumbnails automatically, but the essential parts are uploading them to the folder and creating the thumbnails. What is the best way of doing this?

View Replies !
Best Document Management
I'm looking for a document management system that is open source created with PHP & MySQL. The system minimally will support unlimited user accounts and user groups with the ability to securely associate groups of files together. The system should allow for easy sorting, organizing and categorizing of files. HIPPA compliancy is required.

A simple list of known packages would help. If you have first-hand experience with one of them, even better. I know of OWL, but haven't actually used it.

View Replies !
User Management
I am trying to create a website with phpauction and several other php scripts like a calendar and a business directory. Is there a script out there that I could use to auto register and login users in all these services with only one step? What i mean by that is that a user would sign up once and have accounts created automatically in all the
services.

View Replies !
Management Of Session
I am working on an application which is developed in ASP. This application internally uses some modules of php. This php is alltogether different application but running in same IIS server on advanced windows 2003 OS,with MSSql2k as a backaned support.

I need to create a session bridge between both of this applications. I mean when i switch to ASP application from php there should be some funcitonality which can pass the asp session id to ASP application. By this i want to achieve one session between two applications.

How to create this session bridge through which i can pass the session of php to asp application and as session id to php application?


View Replies !
Member Management
I would like to have login and registration for new members on my site. Where do I start? What program should I use?

View Replies !
File Management
I run a small website which is for a small group of poeple aorund 100, and they take minutes of meetings, results from competitions things like that, mostly PDF documents and word files. I need to be able to display these for download easily, Ive brocken all the documents into a round 10 different sections, is there any way (script) out there that will automatically update a webpage based on the contents of a directory?

View Replies !
User Management Help
I've been hosting a forum game that has been extremely successful, so I'm converting it into an online PHP based game. To give some background, the game is an industry type game with elements from Monopoly from it, where people build buildings, get products, sell and buy from a market that fluxes with the amount of product bought and sold, and just keep expanding.

Unforunately, I'm a little new to PHP and MySQL, but am learning quickly. But I'm not sure how to do my users. I just installed some registration/login scripts that allow my users to make a username and password, and store their email and whatnot, but I'm not sure if I should make a new table for their buildings they have or anything. And for whether I should make a table for hte prices of the buildings, etc..,etc.

View Replies !
Serious Memory Management
I have a PHP page that reads emails from an email account, parses them, processes the resulting information, and then sends out a response. I am in the process of testing it right now, and I am using a small sample (11 emails). I expect, when the site is fully functional, that I could be processing hundreds of emails at a time. I am running the site on a managed server that is dedicated, so I have a fair amount of memory. Unfortunately, I get a fatal error:

Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 41943040 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 6 bytes) in funcs_parse_emails.php on line 48

after only six emails. Clearly, if I am using up 42 megabytes, I have a serious problem. Is there someone out there who can point me to a book or website that discusses PHP memory management issues or provides tools I can use?

View Replies !
Asset Management
I'm planning on building an asset management tool for our local network. I have a question I would like to ask: Is it possible to use PHP/MYSQL/JS etc. as a "metadata" structure and when trying to retreive a file (mostly files over a 100MB) not sending
it over http, but use some other (faster) way for that, like calling a batch script or something (I understand there are security issues to be dealt with), but using the local network infrastructure. Or would FTP be an option... trying to explore all possibilities, but haven't got very far at this stage.

View Replies !
Banner Ad Management
I was set to Openads (phpAdsNew), but I seen in the bugs tracking system that a couple people complained of having code inclusion. I'm not sure as to how but I'd imagine it was done via SQL-injection. I'm going to d/l the script and go over it and try and hunt down those types of holes. in the meantime, what do you suggest thats out there.

View Replies !
Session Management
I've written a session-based back-end requiring user login. It works as expected when I use Firefox (windows) or Safari (mac) but not in IE 6. There should be no need to explain my code because php is browser independent. What's happening is that when I enter the user/pw on the login page, (assuming correct usr/pw pair) I get re-directed to the main admin page (index.php). that part works. However, clicking on a nav link sends me back to the login (as if the $_SESSION['user'] variable was never set).

View Replies !
Image Management
I use the following form to upload and change the filename of 1 picture on my website: Code:

<form enctype="multipart/form-data" action="upload.php" method="POST">
<p>Pic 1</p>
<input name="file1" type="file" id="file" size="50" />
<input type="hidden" name="MAX_FILE_SIZE" value="100000" />
<input type="submit" value="Upload" />
</form>

and upload.php: Code:

<?
$file_name = $HTTP_POST_FILES['file1']['name'];

$random=rand();
...

View Replies !
Content Management System.
I’m looking for a content management systems, PHP based and MySQL driven. I already checked for Mambo and Typo3. But which systems are good and which are bad? I heard a lot of bad things of Mambo concerning security problems. On the other hand Typo3 is not that easy to learn and is very complex. All suggestions are welcome.

View Replies !
News Management Log In Script
It seems that even sessions are somehow insecure. Anyway, I just want to know how to make a secure log in system using MySQL. I know how to check passwords, but how do I tell the browser that I am still logged in when I go to another page?

Added: Maybe I'm wrong. Are sessions secure? I'm so confused. What's the best way of making a secure login script with just PHP and/or MySQL. I don't want a script that only works if people allow cookies and doesn't work if they deny cookies.

View Replies !
PHP Session Management Using MySQL?
I recently wrote a set of PHP session management functions that writes session data to a MySQL table instead of the default text files. The main reasons for doing this was scalability and to make easier access to session data. However the second reason hasn’t been achieved as yet because PHP needs session data to be stored in a formatted string like the following: PHP Code:

View Replies !
File Management System.
I am creating an intranet-type file management system where two or three users can upload and download Word files. I know how to allow for file upload using HTML forms, but is there a way to allow download??

View Replies !
Content Management System For PHP
I would like you advise on the best freeware Content Management
System for PHP scripting. Something that is suited to a larger site and can look after navigation well including breadcrumbs navigation ...

View Replies !
Help Me With Email Bounce Management
I am using C Panel
I have PHP 4.3.9
I use php List 2.8.12

All my bounced emails are going directly to my server.

I need all my bounced emails to be routed to a specific email address
of my choosing.

View Replies !
Which Content Management System
I am already using PHP Nuke as CMS.
I think to change it.I heard about good things about Xoops ,
What do you suggest ?

View Replies !
Process Management In Windows
All I need to do is run a windows batch file from a small php program, and
return the windows process id of the batch file. I have played around with
proc_open() but that returns a resource id. Does anyone have a suggestion
on what call I could use to get the windows process id returned within my
program. I am using windows xp pro, and php 5/apache

View Replies !
Date And Time Management
how I could post the correct time for where the user was located. Like pacific time if they were in california and so on. My server is located in california, and it is posting pacific time for me.. Is there anyway to detect where the user is coming from and adjusting the time accordingly?

View Replies !
Who's On Line And Session Management
I saw somewhere a very good article on using mysql and php session to keep track of the user. I have a forum and want to display the users currently on the site, and also when you go to a particualr forum, it displays who is in that forum too. Anyone got a good starting point? I know a far bit about sessions and mysql just need to join the two.

View Replies !
Subscription Management Software?
Does anyone have any recommendations for good subscription management
software you've used on your PHP/MySQL site? I already have my users
set up witih their username/passwords, but I need something to
auto-bill them and keep track of subscription lengths. I would prefer
to get something tried and true than write my own.

View Replies !
What Is A Content Management System?
I know what it is, and yet the knowledge of what a CMS is, is so vague
that I find myself asking this question every now and then. I've
googled and read the resources too. However, the knowledge is still not
clear. It is so vague.

Me: Just what is a content management system?

Myself: A place where content can be stored.

Me: OK. So, then what's a file system?

Myself: That's not web-based. File-Systems are desktop-based.

Me: You can have a file-system on a common network server. I can even
have a network server and give remote access to people over a VPN. I
can host content on a terminal server, I can give them VNC clients, or
an RDP client, and let them browse what they want to.

Myself: How will they know "where" to find what?

Me: Come again?

Myself: With all those avenues you mentioned, you won't publish
content. There will not be a taxonomy. You will just be dumping files
on another remote server. How will the users "find" what they want?

So, is a CMS all about:

1. Taxonomy
2. Publishing content in a Web based format

Me: What about binary objects that cannot be published in HTML?

Myself: Yeah! What about them, dude? Use your head. What about them?
Heard of a hyperlink? Heard of HTTP? FTP? No?

Me: OK. I get it. But...I *still* don't get it, man. Why did we need
this? More importantly, where are the boundaries? I believe CMS also
lets users edit and publish content on-the-fly.


So, again, where are the boundaries? What about non-public content?
What about access rights? Do you have seperate users on CMS's having
their seperate folders as well, where they could put their own private
content? Or, is the idea behind CMS about "sharing" and so they put
only that which they need to share and not the private stuff.

Do CMS's also allow access rights or authorization levels *per*
resource/file/unit of content that is uploaded on to them? Or, are they
role-based - e.g all users of this group will be able to access all
files, and users of that group will have read-only access to this
website.

View Replies !
User Management Models
does anyone know where to find information about different user management models.
What sort of model to use for what kind of complexity. how to realise the different models and so on...

View Replies !
Banner Management Scripts
Could anyone recommend a script/program that rotates banners on each page impression?
If it has extra stuff like special clients/client of the week etc. so much the better!

View Replies !
Looking For A Php Content Management System
I'm sorry for the long post, but I think it's better if I'm as detailed as I
can be so that I don't make a mistake in my choice and so that there's a
clear understanding of to what I'm looking for.

I'm looking for a content management system to use on a site
(http://www.nigeriavillagesquare.com) that I help to moderate. Unfortunately
(as I have discovered), there are literally hundreds of CMS's to choose
from, so I am understandably confused. However, I would appreciate it if
anyone will be able to recommend a good one based on the criteria I'm going
to give.

In order of priority, the criteria are:

1. Ease of use involving minimal manual intervention. What I would like is a
system where once someone has posted an article and editors have approved
it, it gets published not only to a main 'articles' page but parts of it
(e.g. a link to it with the subject in the title) *automatically* get
published wherever we would like these parts to be published.

For example, currently, we get people to publish articles using Blogger.
Unfortunately, it means that once the article is approved, we still have to
manually insert the link to our front-page and sidebars to our messageboard
using PHP include statements.

See the sidebar on the following page for examples:
http://www.nigeriavillagesquare.com/board.

What we would like is an article management system that would publish
articles to an articles page and also populate the front page and sidebars
automatically.

2. Integration with existing message board and site. I would like a
situation where the content management system would sit side by side with an
existing vBulletin messageboard we already have so that we can show
part of the content on the same page as the messageboard (as I have
described above). It would be nice if we could also cause parts of the
article to appear on other parts of the site as well.

3. Ease of import of previously published articles: I have already mentioned
above that we already have some articles published using Blogger. We would
not want to lose these, so it would be great if there was a
mechanism for importing these articles into the content management system
with minimal manual intervention.

4. Ease of composition: We would like people writing articles not to need to
be masters of html to compose articles for submission to our site. Ideally,
we would like them to be able to paste their articles directly into the
composition window provided by the content manager from a rich text format
application like Microsoft Word without losing their formatting. Failing
that, it would be nice if the content manager provided a simple markup
language that allowed for basic formatting, with the option of html
formatting if the article writer wanted to do something really complex.

5. Article rating. We would like people reading the articles to be able to
rate them. It would be nice if we could configure the rating system so that
we could choose the range of points to be awarded.

6. Good portal system: We would like to have a front 'portal' page with an
index to the latest articles (with a "more articles" link that will direct
readers to more articles the main articles page). We would also like to have
links to other sections of the website where we would post news,
entertainment and other stories.

7. Comments and Login Integration with Vbulletin. Again, we want to have the
ability to integrate with our vbulletin board in such a way that members who
are already registered do not need to register again before posting comments
to articles.

I am assuming that because our existing site is based on PHP, the CMS should
be PHP-based as well.

I would be extremely grateful if you could point me in the direction of a
CMS that would meet most if not all of these requirements.

View Replies !

Copyright © 2005-08 www.BigResource.com, All rights reserved