Stumped working on a website

[Setral]

I'm working on a website for my father-in-law, its on an Apache server w/o ASP support. And I'm not going to turn on Frontpage support.

The above info is rather important because, I need to setup just one page that he can add pictures and information to, with little or no assistance from me. I'm about to the point where I will just give him an FTP account with access to only one directory to let him potetionally mess up this "Sales" page. All the rest of the site is basically static, so no need for him to directly update it.

Does anyone have any suggestions or pointers for a script or scripts, that he could use to upload a few photos, add in details and it would add it to this specific page. I'm personally having a hell of a time searching for something that I think would work.

If you have any other questions that might help in finding somethign for me to work with, feel free to ask.

(Yes this is a repost from OffTopic, I didn't realize from the list that this covers "programming").

Any suggestions besides using a Gallery?

 

[Cheetah8799]

Have you looked at using PHP or Perl to write an upload script?

 

[sourceninja]

you could setup the site using a pre-made cms system like mambo or phpnuke. or use php/perl/python/ruby/java/etc to do it.

 

[Setral]

I've looked at php actually, however I can't for the life of me find exactly what I'm wanting.

Basically the website is for selling vehicles (not cars/trucks), I'm wanting to setup a For Sale type page that he can update himself. The page he would upload pictures of said vehicle and post information about it.

Possibly, even having sub-pages for displaying multiple pictures and even more detailed information. And I am not a coder by any means, so anything outside of HTML I can only copy/paste/modify.

So far the only real suggestion I've been given was using Gallery, which I had thought about, but wasn't sure how well it would come out.

 

[kamper]

I think that unless someone has already tackled your specific problem, the only way you're going to get something relatively simple that can do everything is to pick a cms. It may be overkill, but hopefully you can find one that fits your needs. I've heard good stuff about mambo. Googling 'php cms' will probably bring you more info than you ever wanted. Of course, it is possible that someone has already designed just what you want, but you might have to do some real sleuthing to find it as it would probably be fairly obscure.

 

[Setral]

kamper,

Thanks, I've been kinda searching around and having a problem finding something which is why I asked, but thanks for the suggestion of starting with "php cms"

 

[Setral]

Last attempt at seeing if anyone has a suggestion of what to try before I end up searching for a few hours