Try out FRC team 2915's easy content entry system

[ZInventor]

Here on FRC team 2915, RiverdaleRobotics Pandamonium, we wanted to make it easy for the marketing team, and our translators, to add new content to the website.

We decided that it'd be a cool idea to let the general public try out the system, and see what they thought!

to try out the parser, visit http://www.riverdalerobotics.com/?demo

There are still a couple issues, but, as of yet, they haven't affected true site parsing.

Please, if you think this is cool or interesting, leave feedback. it would be much appreciated.

Don't worry, no one other than you will be able to see the content that you put in. We set the system up so that spammers wouldn't be able to put bogus content up.

hope you all like it!

-Z

[colt527]

Very impressive

I am sure this will save your content entry team a ton of time and spare your website of awful WYWIWYG generated code.

Keep up the great work!

[ZInventor]

if you look through the rest of the website, all the content was added using the same entry system. The site also runs in three different languages (more coming soon, hopefully).

thanks,

-Z

[Zholl]

May I ask how you set this up? This looks like a much easier way than our current method, and we could easily allow other people to add content when they aren't familiar enough with web design to do it normally without having to teach them much.

[ZInventor]

the back end is a bunch of complicated PHP and MySql. I'll talk to the other webamaster and see if he has an easy copy of the code...

it's taken us alot of work though... (it probably would've been faster just to teach the marketing team HTML....)

In the end, it provides an extremely UserFriendly interface, but, that happens at the expence of us coders...

-Z

[DavidAllen]

That's very cool, but why didn't you use something already in place, such as Textile or Markdown?

[ZInventor]

having our own system lets us control the system alot better.

it's also more fun

plus, do the other programs output such nice html? (view source)

everything about the site is customizable by web interface.

it also gave us alot of practice using PHP and MySql.

-Z