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Would i use a CMS for this?


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First of all i would like to say i'm no coder. I know my way around HTML and CSS, made some asp pages in the far past.

I'm doing an overhaul on a company website. Generally that wouldn't be too much of a problem. The only thing is they have a list of products they sell and they want to place these products on the website together with a PDF containing the technical info about the product. They want this part to be managable by the sales people.

The webserver supports mainly HTML, PHP and CGI with a mysql DB.

Is there some freely available PHP code that would allow me to make a list of this products like this

Product type A

- prod A

- prod B

Product Type B

- prod C

- prod D

- prod E

If you would click any of these sub links it would direct you to info about the product and a downloadable PDF. This list has to be managed by the sales personel.

I would appreciate the help!

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Sounds to me like a CMS would be overkill for what you want to do. If you've dabbled in ASP before, why not take a shot at some PHP and custom code it :) ? Should be a pretty simple feature (if I am understanding you right anyways).

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depends on how many products you have....! I use Joomla for that sort of thing.... joomla.org ... :)

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I can try zen cart, although i don't know if it's possible to remove the prices etc. They sell big concrete products. It's not something you just drop in a shopping cart. Thats why they need to make manual quotes for each case.

CMS would indeed be overkill because the rest of the website will be plain and simple static data. On the other hand the product sheet is 90% of the reason to have the site so i might try joomla.

Would i need plugins to make these listings?

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ZenCart is highly customisable, including removing the "shopping" aspect of it and keeping just as an easy-to-update catalogue website.

It also has the feature of being able to create static pages that you can edit using the same ZenCart backend.

It only comes with four pages I think, but you can get a program that will generate the required php files for you if you need more pages.

The templates are very easy to edit, if you're familiar with Wordpress templating at all it should be a walk in the park.

If you do go with ZenCart, make sure you get the TinyMCE mod, because the WYSIWYG editor that comes with it is terrible.

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