building interface XML and TXT

[jerryj]

Hi,

now that i have built my first site using external XML and TXT files with which the client can update his site, I am really eager to learn how to build an interface, so the client doesn't have to open the XML and TXT files anymore and upload them, but just can open an interface, preferably online (with a password). But I don't know where to start.

Are there any tutorials on this?

Thank you,

Jerryj.

[agraddy]

You are going to need to use a dynamic language to create an interface. If you are planning to create the interface in flash it will be even more work and learning. I would recommend first learning a dynamic language and create a basic interface and then once you are familiar with that you can move on to more advanced work by combining Flash with a dynamic language.

Some common dynamic languages are PHP, ASP, JSP, and Coldfusion. I would recommend learning PHP at least that is the one that I know and I have been very impressed with it. PHP is an open source language and it connects very well to the open source database MySQL (in case you ever wanted to move the information to a database). Below are a few websites that I would recommend to get started learning PHP. I am not real familiar with any websites that would provide tutorials for the other dynamic languages. If you search Google, you would be able to find something real quick.

There is a great article at PHP Builder (http://www.phpbuilder.com/columns/vaska20050505.php3?aid=897) that I wish I would have known about when I was first getting started.

I would also recommend the site that is mentioned in the article, Hudzilla (http://www.hudzilla.org/phpbook/).

If you are wanting to learn how to mix PHP and Flash, I would highly recommend the articles at Kirupa.com (http://www.kirupa.com/web/index.htm) Kirupa also has some basic PHP tutorials that may be able to help you out as well.

I hope this information helps, let me know if you need anything else.

[SpiderArts]

lmao, the post JUST before this one has the code for that exactly. Refer to my post.

[jerryj]

Hi Agraddy,

thank you for the info. Actually I have worked a little with php before, building email forms. But the articles you mention look interesting. I am not sure if there is also information about how to build this interface I meant, but now I suddenly see the resemblance with emailforms; using input textfields, sending them to a php file, that sends the data to antoher file.

Jerryj.