open a file and specify an editor

[Don Logan]

Hi
I am looking for a way to browse my website, find a page that needs editing and then click on an 'edit this page' link which will then load the selected page in Frontpage. This is for an admin person and not for general public use, i know how to make the link visible only to the admin person and i know that frontpage is one of the html editors available on their pc. What i don't know is how to specify that the selected page be opened in frontpage instead of the default browser. Can anyone help?

Don

[Fixago]

Well the only way to do that is to set the headers using PHP to force a download, but that means you're going to have to put the header information on each page that you want the admin to be able to edit. That might mean putting an IF/ELSE statement on the page that checks the referring URL to see if it's coming from the admin page or not so it doesn't display the headers normally.

http://us3.php.net/header

That might help you out right there, however, why don't you just use fopen() to parse the HTML in a textarea? Oh, wait, nevermind you wanted the admin to edit it in Frontpage.