: Editable block: CMS or PHP script? I'm designing a Website for a restaurant. The site will be fairly static except for a 'specials' block which the client will need to update on a daily basis.

@Murphy175

The PHP required is fairly simple and you can find examples of login scripts around many places. This would be the easiest way to implement it since it would avoid the overhead of a CMS, certainly overkill for your needs. I did something like this using ASP.NET and it was quite simple to implement.

I've done something like this with WordPress but that was for a site where there would more than one page updated from time to time. There were about 100 pages for the whole site so it made more sense there than it would for a 5 pager.

Another option would be for them to edit a text file locally and upload it to the site via FTP. You could then use a script to include it into your pre-existing page.

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@Fox8124981

Well, the problem here is that every CMS, in this case, is an overkill.

If you were an experienced PHP programmer, to write the code you need, would require about 1 hour (more or less). Anyway, as you asserts, you aren't. Thus, you should use a CMS also because this choise will pay in the long run. What if the customer starts to call you every week to update the content? Using a CMS from the beginning, will allow you have great flexibility and avoid the possible problem to manage the change of the whole website. The latter often create problems in terms of SEO because you'll have to do several tasks to keep the good SEO efforts you, or your client, spent on the website (at least if this efforts are been spent).

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