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06-13-2008, 01:25 PM

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Greetings all…

I have a quick question regarding using CodeIgniter in a specific non-conventional way.

I was hoping to get some opinions or suggestions on whether this is doable.

First let me say that I am NOT a developer – especially in the OOP/MVC sense. I have a few years of light PHP scripting experience and am looking to go down the road of MVC frameworks – and CodeIgniter looks awesome!

Anyways –

I wanted to build a simple app, where a user can upload an entire pre-written html page (from <html> to </html&gt Wink

into a form, stored in MySQL, and then be able view that page via a url such as:

http://www.domain.com/username/

So basically, create an app using standard MVC CodeIgniter coding principles:

Create a user:

http://www.domain.com/register/

Which in turn, will create their homepage:

http://www.domain.com/username/

Also, create their admin page (password resets, etc…)

http://www.domain.com/username/admin/
http://www.domain.com/username/admin/reset_password
http://www.domain.com/username/admin/change_address
http://www.domain.com/username/admin/add_content

When the user added the above mentioned html content to the “add_content” form – it would be called from the database as and be seen via the URL:

http://www.domain.com/username/

Obviously, per additional instructions, we could have a form to upload pictures & css - or they could do it manually - to such and such directory (perhaps views/images) – and make sure their code reference /siteroot/views/images for graphics and .css.

The caveat would be how to store and escape/sanitize the code in the database – and render it properly (certain tags to be interpreted, and others as straight text).
For example – any php code in their uploaded page would be rendered as straight text.

So, that’s about it...

Opinions/suggestions please :-)

Thanks in advance...

- Scott