Very Simple CMS

[bolty2uk]

Hi all. (sorry if in wrong forum)

Hope you all had a good festive season..

Im posting here seeking a bit of advice.
Ive got a site i created for a friend. its pretty basic, only 5 pages and does all he needs.

The problem i have is on 3 of the pages he has small areas he would like to edit from time to time.

Now as i know i could easily show him how to edit files and ftp i think a much safer way would be to create a very basic cms..
what i am planning on doing is put the small parts he wants to edit in via php include as text files.
This way he can make changes and wont be actually upsetting code.

Now the problem i have here is that even though i have looked through many cms solutions i just cant find one as simple as my needs requires.
I have php and mysql but really dont want to end up uploading a big, complicated script to basically edit what will in all honsty be a couple of sentences.

I am actually thinking about trying to create something myself. but am interested if there is anything out there already.
Perhaps im using wrong searchs or something but all i seem to find is scripts that in reality are far too good for my needs.

Any advice, recommendations or ideas would be great, The more i think about this the more i think i will give it a go myself..

Thanks

[Tech Manager]

There are many good commercial and open source CMS scripts available. But, for what you are doing I think the creation of a simple MySQL database along with some self-made PHP scripts would make more sense.

Figure out his data needs, walk through some database normalization techniques, design your database and then put together some simple administrative scripts to allow for the addition, deletion or edit of data in the tables and then add the data retrieval scripts to the specific PHP pages he will be using to serve dynamic data.

Without additional information I can't offer much more assistance other than to say simple CMS scripts are easy to create and manage. Adding, deleting, editing and retrieving data from a MySQL database using PHP is straightforward and simple to accomplish. Your biggest concerns will be making sure you properly secure your CMS and Dynamic content scripts against hacks.

[Toni Anicic]

all you need is cutephp (http://cutephp.com/) :)

no mysql, easy to implement in static pages, all you need to do is put it up on server and change .html extesions of your website to .php, insert a small part of code in to them generated by the script in to them and you are ready to go :)