You asked what the 'next thing on the plate' is. This is it -- but it's really the next thing, once the schedule is up and ready to rock-n-roll. Alternatively, if you're still doing schedule display stuff, we could hand this off to The New Guy.
I'd like to install a news editor on the site, so I've got a page where I can easily post updates and announcements. I like the look of http://cutephp.com/ and t has the advantage that it doesn't use MySQL. It may also be more powerful than I want.
The functionality I want is...
1) There's a "News" page on site which is visible to anyone, logged in or not. It displays articles in chronological order, newest to oldest. Articles have a headline and body text, and may include some basic HTML formatting (bold, ital, images, links, etc.).
2) If you're logged into the site and have the correct privileges, you have access to the news editor which allows you to create and publish or schedule articles. It could be a WYSIWYG editor or not. My HTML is pretty good.
3) Articles have both publish dates and expiration dates. i.e., I can create an article and schedule it to go up at some time in the future, or I can create an article and schedule it to vanish from view at some point in the future, or both.
4) There probably ought to be a way to edit a published article or at the very least, delete it.
There are a billion existing tools for this out there already. I definitely do NOT want to take the time for us to write our own, but taking a little time reviewing our options is all right. Ideally, I'd love this done by Saturday, 12/28.
Jon --
You asked what the 'next thing on the plate' is. This is it -- but it's really the next thing, once the schedule is up and ready to rock-n-roll. Alternatively, if you're still doing schedule display stuff, we could hand this off to The New Guy.
I'd like to install a news editor on the site, so I've got a page where I can easily post updates and announcements. I like the look of http://cutephp.com/ and t has the advantage that it doesn't use MySQL. It may also be more powerful than I want.
The functionality I want is...
1) There's a "News" page on site which is visible to anyone, logged in or not. It displays articles in chronological order, newest to oldest. Articles have a headline and body text, and may include some basic HTML formatting (bold, ital, images, links, etc.).
2) If you're logged into the site and have the correct privileges, you have access to the news editor which allows you to create and publish or schedule articles. It could be a WYSIWYG editor or not. My HTML is pretty good.
3) Articles have both publish dates and expiration dates. i.e., I can create an article and schedule it to go up at some time in the future, or I can create an article and schedule it to vanish from view at some point in the future, or both.
4) There probably ought to be a way to edit a published article or at the very least, delete it.
There are a billion existing tools for this out there already. I definitely do NOT want to take the time for us to write our own, but taking a little time reviewing our options is all right. Ideally, I'd love this done by Saturday, 12/28.