Comments System?

[PHP_penguin]

Is there any known way of making some such system work on a sitee (eg customers wrtie your content for you?) or is it something which will be hard to implement?

Has Actinic thought of making this?

[NormanRouxel]

A big job, I'm afraid. Actinic maintains your products on a backoffice PC and uploads the site (as static HTML pages) to the server when you choose.

There is no real server side database that can be automatically updated.

Each product has a unique reference number which could be used to look up a separate server-side database (perhaps by sending the Actinic pages through a PHP script) but you'd have to write the code yourself.

[Pneumatus]

I've been developing a custom PHP/mySQL based comments system stand-alone for a few of the Actinic sites I develop.

http://www.winexdirect.co.uk has my latest incantation of it. If you are interested/want more info email me off the board.

[PHP_penguin]

im quite fine writing PHP code for it, but would the site navigation work with it?

or would it be possible to send out php headers at load time and run the PHP before switching to HTML headers?

[NormanRouxel]

I would just embed PHP into the product template.

e.g.

NETQUOTEVAR:PRODUCTDESCRIPTION
<?php
$thisref = 'NETQUOTEVAR:PRODUCTREFERENCE';
..... code that looks up the product reference
..... and outputs HTML if extra text found
?>

You can change the name of your product pages to end in .php if that's more efficient than processing all .html.

[Pneumatus]

I agree with Norman, you can either embed code into your ProductLines and change the page extentions to .php or you can use a popup window or something with the comments in like the system I have developed.

[NormanRouxel]

Or do both by embedding something like

<a href="javascript:ShowPopUp('extrainfo.php?id=NETQUOTEVAR:PRODUCTREFERENCE',600,500)">More info here</a>

Now you don't need the product page to be PHP enabled as it's the popup page that gets PHP processed.

I've just been working on such a system where a standard Actinic HTML page has its product image generated in real-time using an <IMG SRC="mycode.php?NETQUOTEVAR:PRODUCTREFERENCE&etcetc">
See http://www.drillpine.biz/v7fastframe..._Products.html for an example.