Seting CMS Up to Edit existing content

12 posts by 3 authors in: Forums > CMS Builder
Last Post: April 14, 2010   (RSS)

By skoenig - April 8, 2010

Hello,

I have installed CMS and I was wondering if there was documentation or a URL you could point me to to set CMS up to edit existing content in my WWW directory. /cmsAdmin root folder also resides in WWW.

Creating menus and such seems to be for a brand new website.

Sean

Re: [skoenig] Seting CMS Up to Edit existing content

By Jason - April 9, 2010

Hi Sean,

CMS Builder can only edit and maintain content that has been entered into it. To use it on an existing site, you need to create all of the sections that are currently in your site in CMS Builder.

Once you've done that you can put all of your existing content into the CMS Builder sections that you've created.

Finally, you use the Code Generator to generate the code that will display your content. This can then be used in replace of your current pages. You would then be able to maintain these pages using CMS Builder.

I hope this helps. Let me know if you need any more help.
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Re: [Jason] Seting CMS Up to Edit existing content

By hhusted - April 10, 2010

Jason,

So what you are saying is that in order for the content to show on a web page, I would have to click the Generator Code button and paste the code into the place on my web page. Right?

Right now AM does this by use of templates and does it automatically. CMS Builder won't do this automatically?

Harry

Re: [Jason] Seting CMS Up to Edit existing content

By skoenig - April 11, 2010

Hey Jason,

Thanks for the reply.

Do you have a URL to a document with instructions?

Sean

Re: [hhusted] Seting CMS Up to Edit existing content

By Jason - April 12, 2010

Hi Harry,

That's right. CMS Builder store your information in a MySQL database. The code generator will give you code that will pull this information back out of the database and display it.

What's great about CMS Builder is that it's flexible. It doesn't use templates, but that means you can put your content into any design you want. You can also alter the code, or use your own php code to get the information in CMS Builder.

If you have any questions, please let me know.
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Re: [skoenig] Seting CMS Up to Edit existing content

By Jason - April 12, 2010

Hi Sean,

http://www.interactivetools.com/docs/cmsbuilder/

There are a bunch of documents here to help you get started. This forum is also full of a lot of good information. If you run into any problems, just let me know.

Hope this helps.
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Re: [Jason] Seting CMS Up to Edit existing content

By skoenig - April 12, 2010

Jason,

Sorry, I was looking for a little more help.

I looked at http://www.interactivetools.com/docs/cmsbuilder/ before I posted to the forum.

My thought is that it should be blatantly obvious of how to use CMS with an existing website.

Like a link saying “Setup CMS with an Existing Website.”

Sean

Re: [skoenig] Seting CMS Up to Edit existing content

By Jason - April 12, 2010

Hi Sean,

Here are the basic steps you'll have to go through:

-First for each section of your current website, you'll have to set up a section in CMS Builder (for example: About, Contact, News, etc).

-After you have all of your sections set up, you need to copy over your content from your current site into those sections.

-Once you have that done. You can use the code generator to create a "viewer" for each section that will display the content. This code can be used within your existing design. The code will display the content that has been loaded into CMS Builder. This way, whenever you update the CMS Builder content, the content will be updated on the page.

I hope this helps. If you need more help, maybe you can give me some more details about your site and I'll help you through.
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Re: [Jason] Seting CMS Up to Edit existing content

By hhusted - April 14, 2010

So once that code is in place, the new content automatically appears on the web page when new content is added to the database.

I have a question then. What if I were to create a one page article and place the code on the page for that content. When I place the code in the one page to show that article, the next time I enter new content in the database, whatever was on the web page is no longer there, instead new content is now there. If this is so, in order to preserve the old article or content, I would have to simply copy the web page to a new page and rename it. This way i keep the old content. Am I right.

Re: [hhusted] Seting CMS Up to Edit existing content

By Jason - April 14, 2010

Yes, you could move and rename your old content, or you can put your viewer code on a different page.
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