Re: <? view_content(78) ?>

Hi,

Abe wrote:
I hope someone can help....

I'm new at all this, so please bear with me. I created a website and did this all in php using dreamweaver. I later hired a programmer to connect some forms and reports to an sql database. I later had him upload all the files to the server.

Now, I need to be able to go in and edit some of the content - not touching the database. When i download the files from the server and open them again in Dreamweaver, all the content within the body tags seem to be replaced with something like:

<? view_content(78) ?> -each php page will have a different number - this one happens to be 78.

Does this mean that the programmer took all my content out and put that into the database as well?

If so...why would they do that? Any reaon from a programming view point? Or just making the pages load faster? Or making it impossible for me to edit content so I need to re-hire him each time I need changes?

Thanks everyone,

Abe



First of all, you hired a crappy programmer. Using <? in stead of <?php is not something a decent PHP programmer would do these days. But that doesn't solve your problem.

'view_content()' is most likely a function, so it might be best to check in which file this function is located and what the function does. It could be this function gets the content out of a database, which is not bad at all, only his implementation is bad. Almost every PHP website gets the actual page content out of a database. I suspect that, he has a 'content' table where each page corresponds to a specific ID and he fetches the content depending on that ID. To edit the page you thus need to edit the content directly inside the database, or, if provided, via the administration section of your website. But, that merely depends on the exact implementation of the 'view_content()' function.

- Jensen

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