Santa Monica Area Health, Beauty and Fitness | Adding a Category Select Menu to Munius Article Moderation

The Munius Article Directory Software PHP scripts from James D. Brausch help you get content from others for your e-commerce or other website.  The scripts generally work pretty well, but there are few rough edges making necessary a few modifications to the PHP code.

One of them was derived as follows:  When contributors submit articles, they are supposed to select an appropriate category from the drop-down "Article Category" select menu on the submission form.  But they usually just leave it at whatever the default is -- which is usually just "General".

Now, when you go to moderate an article, and you want to accept it, but you want to put it into a more appropriate category, you have to type in a category.  Because they are not shown to you, you have to remember them and their exact spellings.  Now if you enter in a category not in the data file, the article won't show to users; only you will see it when you are in moderator mode.  This means that you have to go to another page to see what the valid categories are so that you can type one in.  Because of that minor inconvenience, a drop-down select menu in the moderating (article reviewing) page was added.

You will find in the Munius script "submitarticle.php" the Category menu that contributors see and use.  (Lines 21-37 of the original Brausch script.)

Copying that code into "reviewarticle.php" and making a few modifications to that gets and displays what the contributor originally selected, then allows the moderator to select either that or a new category.  (The code linked to below replaces lines 42-45 of the original Brausch script in "reviewarticle.php".)

See the PHP script code.  More related at Munius PHP

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