Back-End Use for Customer

[LAL63069]

Hello All. I am working on my first professional website and seem to be getting broken in the hard way.

My customer is wanting back-end access to his website so he can change certain elements himself. I would imagine this is somehow done with php but I don't even know where to begin.

Does anyone have any advice or know of any documentations that would guide me through this? Your help is greatly appreciated!

 

[DesignerBill]

Use a CMS

Could you use a CMS like WordPress, Drupal, or Joomla? Allowing a non-designer to change content is what they are made for.

If you can't do that for whatever reason, you could "roll your own" CMS with a database and PHP, which is not a trivial task, but the extent of the changes they want to make would determine the amount of effort needed. It is too much to teach on this forum.

 

[yano]

My customer is wanting back-end access to his website so he can change certain elements himself. I would imagine this is somehow done with php but I don't even know where to begin.

Back-end access? Do you mean access to a database? And, Which elements does he want to change? If you are referring to elements on the web pages themselves, you may not require back-end access unless the page elements are data-driven.

 

[Absolution]

I know Drupal can do it. You will need to design your website in that. However people tell me there aren't many good tutorials on Drupal.