Dreamweaver - Can you schedule site changes?

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Can you schedule site changes?

Falani

2005-08-27, 11:16 pm

Hello - I look after a site for a company that regularly changes their store
hours depending on what time of year it is. The client asked me recently
what happens, for instance, if I'm away on holidays and they need to update
their information. Beside them using Contribute, is there a way I can make
the alterations before I leave and have some kind of scheduling app upload
the new pages on the required date/time?

Thanks,

Falani.

Joe Makowiec

2005-08-27, 11:19 pm

On 27 Aug 2005 in macromedia.dreamweaver, Falani wrote:

> Hello - I look after a site for a company that regularly changes
> their store hours depending on what time of year it is. The client
> asked me recently what happens, for instance, if I'm away on
> holidays and they need to update their information. Beside them
> using Contribute, is there a way I can make the alterations before I
> leave and have some kind of scheduling app upload the new pages on
> the required date/time?

Check what kind of serverside scripting you have. Then on the page
which lists hours, have something like this (pseudocode):

if (date < &date to change over&) {
// output regular hours here
} else {
// output summer hours here
}

Adjust to suit. This is a one-shot, and requires updating each year;
with a bit more programming, it could work continually.

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Joe Makowiec
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Email: http://makowiec.net/email.php

Alan

2005-08-27, 11:19 pm

another alternative would be to put a simple page editing script on the
server. This one is in php, and allows editing only within editable areas
of dw templated pages:
http://www.phpeditme.hosting.vt.edu/index.php
try the demo.
if you use it- should put the script in a password protected directory.
Then send the client the url to the script, username/password, and name of
file(s) with the store times in them.

Falani

2005-08-28, 7:15 am

Thanks Alan,

I'll be sure to check it out. Thanks for your assistance.

Regards,

Falani

Falani

2005-08-28, 7:15 am

Thanks for your reply Joe. I'll see what I can do.

Regards,

Falani.