Website creation kit

Hey there..

Just thought I'd let you know how I'm planning to use Snippetmaster; maybe it'll give you a few ideas, and maybe you can help me out with some problems I am going to face! (sorry this post may be quite long!)

OK, I know you said it's for editing pre-built websites, and not for creating new sites - but I thought I could adapt it to my needs. You see, I have been offering free hosting on my site for people's personal sites (friends at college, etc.) for a long time now, but they had to use Frontpage and I had to give away my website's password, so I looked into other methods and found this!

I installed snippetmaster some time ago, but had problems. Now I remembered about it, and tried the newest version of Lite - and it works fine so I think I'll get Pro soon.

Basically what I'm planning to do is as follows:

1. Create copy of snippetmaster for each user, in a directory like "/login-username"

2. In each user's directory [/username], add a template file [template.php]

The template file will contain the stylesheet, the overall look of the site and also the following include:

Code:

<?php include("$page.htm");?>

3. In each user's directory, add 10 blank pages. [1.htm, 2.htm... 10.htm]

Each of the pages will be as follows:

Code:

<body>

<snippet name="Main">

Insert your HTML here!

</snippet>

</body>

Basically a completely blank page

4. In each user's directory, an index page

The index page will be as follows:

Code:

<? header("Location:template.php?page=1"); ?>

So that it goes straight to page 1.

So all the webmaster has to do is edit "1.htm" for the index page, and each other page for extra pages he/she wants on the site.

Problems:
- Is there any way to disable the "upload" function in Pro? Or only enable it if I allow them? Cos I don't want them uploading things willy-nilly

- In order to link to each page, they'd have to link to something like:

Code:

template.php?page=5

This could be annoying!

- If they wanted more than 10 pages, I'd have to upload more.

- If they wanted to change the template, I'd have to do it for them [I could make the template a snippet, but then would risk them messing it up]

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What do you think? I think it could work pretty well.

Obviously, I'm not charging them for it - so is it ok for just a pro regular license?

Thanks for reading my ramblings!

Shaun Laughing