I am a real newbie at making webpages, but after having a domain name for x years now, I figure I should start using it for something more than a pop server. Anyway, I was hoping to make a webpage with that had some short stories. Sounds easy enough, use PHP, mySQL database, etc. But since I know nothing my question is this. What I hope to do is be able to create either word of txt documents and just drop them on to some web server folder, or drop them into some sort of database with the date and title. But I am not sure if you can drop something like a document into a database. It seems to me like you only create fields with small amounts of data in a certain field. But I am going to assume that a database has to have a way to associate on "row" in the database with some sort of link to a document.
I say that because sites like MSNBC or ESPN, where the content changes all the time, I am assuming they have some sort of automated system, where somebody writes the article in word, drops it in some directory and some script will automatically see that and put it up on the page. So I was wondering if somebody can push me in the right direction to do something like this. Thanks a bundle guys.
I say that because sites like MSNBC or ESPN, where the content changes all the time, I am assuming they have some sort of automated system, where somebody writes the article in word, drops it in some directory and some script will automatically see that and put it up on the page. So I was wondering if somebody can push me in the right direction to do something like this. Thanks a bundle guys.
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