Hey all.
Pretty new to this stuff. Here's what i want to do. I want to have a Content Management System for my website, but I don't want to use the templates. I simply want to use phpinclude inside my predesigned pages.
Every CMS I look at seems to be output on a template for that particular app, which is not want I want. My needs are pretty basic for what the CMS must do. So is this possible? To have a backend CMS, and just use phpinclude to post the text only from the CMS?
Here is exactly what I need the CMS to do inside my pages:
Manage News Section
In one column will be the Latest News section. It will show a few article headlines with brief intro and read more link. Then under that a link to view all News in headlines. In another column will be feature articles headlines. Same Deal as news, but just different category of News.
Pages
I want the contact, events and other pages to be updated through the CMS. So I have the page created within my site (contact.php for example). Inside a div tag on that page I want to include the content from the CMS for the contact page. Same for Events etc..
Directory Listings
Our website has a Dining and Accomodations and Sales and Service sections for Ontario Snowmobilers. Basically just an alphabetized classified system. I want this entire section to be updateable. I am thinking a php script for classifieds might work here. So this doesnt need to be in the CMS unless someone knows of one that would work.
Anyways, hope I make sense, and hope there is something out there i Can use.
Thanks in advance
Another Question. Again, forgive me as I am new at PHP and learning so this one's probably dumb.
If I have created a database on my remote server, can I use that same database for many PHP scripts. For example, can I have the article management, polling and forum scripts all point to same database? Or do I have to create a new database for every script I use?
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