Limiting access on our news submission page

[integravtec]

Hey guys, I'm new here. Just had a question, so I want to thank you in advance for the help. I not too familiar with programming other languages than Html, dhtml, and javascript. So I figured there would be a way to do it in javascript.

I'm making a website and on the news page I would like it to be able to have a text box to upload text on to the news page but I only want 1 person to have access to upload the news events. How would I do this ?

Can you guys help me out.

Thank you,
Frechiani

[acoder]

Hello and welcome to The Scripts.

You will need a server-side language to restrict access. Are you not familiar with any? If you're prepared to learn one or know the basics of one, I can move the question to that forum where you can get more help.

[Atli]

Acoder is right.
You need something like PHP or ASP.
I reccomend php ;)

[iam_clint]

and i recomend asp! :P

[acoder]

and I recommend ColdFusion!! Actually PHP's not too bad either!

[senaka]

You can validate that person using AJAX so that no body sees your validation mechanism. what you do is get that 1 guy to enter some user name and password and get it posted to another html page. inaccessible to the rest of the world... this can be done using an authentication header. so in other words if the rest of the world doesn't authenticate themselves.... they can't post.


or else another method is if your one and only guy has a fixed unique IP address you can validate his presence from that IP. Both these methods are possible using javascript only. I mean there is no need to go to server-side langs if you can do this.

[integravtec]

Hello and welcome to The Scripts.

You will need a server-side language to restrict access. Are you not familiar with any? If you're prepared to learn one or know the basics of one, I can move the question to that forum where you can get more help.

Yes, please I would appreciate that. Whats the difference from php to asp? Is one easier than the other ? I would like to learn the basics of the less complicated one lol.

Thanks a lot

[junal]

hey i guess you can use CakePhp framework and then you can use ACL to restrict your users. i hope it will help you !

[acoder]

Yes, please I would appreciate that. Whats the difference from php to asp? Is one easier than the other ? I would like to learn the basics of the less complicated one lol.

Thanks a lot

Have a quick look at the following tutorials:
W3Schools PHP tutorial
Php.net Simple Tutorial
W3Schools ASP tutorial
to decide which is for you.

Both languages will do the task for you. The one to choose depends on factors such as cost, speed, complexity, background.