teamworking on a website

[Macnoviz]

Hi,

I have a website I made for a local organisation (which I am part of) and it includes a news section. It's all done in XHTML+CSS originally and now I switched to PHP to be able to quickly update sitewide ( include("header.php") and such and such)
but what I would like to do now is letting other members update the news. Now everything is just in plain HTML for that, but I was hoping to use PHP, otherwise I would have to explain them FTP, basic HTML, etc. which I really don't see happening. I have a mySQL database, but no idea how to use it. (I generally only learn things when I need them)
Do you have any thoughts on how to do this as simply as possible?

 

[ChicoWeb]

If you want simple, straight to the point current news, we've used CuteNews before.

http://cutephp.com/

Works great. Has a short story, long story, people can upload pictures and what not. I guess it depends how in-depth you want to get with how much control over content.

 

[Macnoviz]

that looks nice, but I'm afraid it will get a bit feature bloated. All I really need is for them to be able to enter plain text and have it appear on the website

 

[Macnoviz]

could you use simpleXML for this?

 

[Macnoviz]

no, sorry, I'm not spamming here, but I just realised that RSS may the easiest method. I just need some code to include the feed (title and description are enough) into my site. Making te feed itself should be possible for the other users, it's a matter of downloading the xml file, copying and pasting an item, adjusting the text and reuploading. I could probably make a form to let them upload the xml file.

 

[tominated]

try the inblogit.com service.
you just put a few code snippets into your page and you have a nice news/blog page that you can update via their website.