Want to post phone list on Intranet - How

[Wanabe]

My company currently has a small Intranet site that I maintain. I want to be able to post our company phone list on this site as well as other valuable text information that could then be easily indexed by employees.

What I would like is for one of our staff to be able to periodically update the information as needed and have it automatically upload itself onto the web server. I guess if they needed to perform a very simple upload proceedure that would be OK. The key here is that it must be simple to update the information. I don't want this person to have to navigate through directories on the web server or have to convert excel files to HTML or anything like that.

Can anyone think of any software that has a very easy to use front end for data input/editing that will then upload to a web server?

As always...thanks for any help!

Wanabe

[Xayd]

The best way to go about that, IMHO, would be to use a database and create a form on the intranet for the person entering the data to add new records with.

Wouldn't be very difficult at all to do with PHP.

[Wanabe]

Thanks Xayd.

That's kind of what I was thinking. Although I was wondering if there was any off-the-shelf software out there.

You'll have to forgive me, I'm not very in tune with acronyms like IMHO and PHP. Can you please enlighten me?

Thanks!
Wanabe

[doctorgonzo]

PHP is a scripting language used by websites (including this one: if you look at the address, you will see that forms used to post and reply have .php suffixes). Using PHP you can create forms just like these so adding a new phone number is as simple as posting a message here.

IMHO means In My Humble Opinion.

[Wanabe]

Got it!

Thanks,
Wanabe

[Xayd]

You might take a look around at sample stuff on PHP.net, and there are some good guides as well at webmonkey.com for doing this sort of thing.

It's not very difficult to learn once you get your feet wet if you're familiar with HTML, like doctorgonzo said it's just a scripting language that you can use in your case to pull data from somewhere and construct viewable pages with the data.

The reason for doing it that way is you've got the data categorized and searchable in any way you see fit.