General hints and tips please.

[Jacqui1811]

I am starting a project which I am going to have to maintain off site as it will be hosted/used in another country, I will probably only go on site once every 2 months for a few days.
I am wondering if anyone has any tips/hints etc for offsite maintainability that I can bare in mind whislt developing this project or any opinions on my current plan.
I am planning on using PHP and Pat Template with a MySql database. Will using a templating engine make it harder for me to debug or send/email updates ?
Any comments would be greatly appreciated as I have spent a week or so trying to think of any issues and have not realy come up wiht anything.
Jacqui.

 

[vacunita]

I Would say as long as you can get FTP access to the server, it should be just the same as being on site. As you would then be able to upload and downbload files, and modify them.

The templating system will make it simpler to poerfor site wide changes with minimal effort. aS usdually when you change the template all pages that use it will c hange as well to reflect them.

But again, with FTP, it sahould be a breeze to maintain from anywhere.


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[Jacqui1811]

Thanks Vacunita.
I want to use templates for the simpler site wide modifications reason.
I might not necessarily have FTP access (to be discussed) so might just end up emailing a zipped set of files for the it dept to extract to the right place.
Keep the tips coming folks all appreciated.
Jacqui.

 

[jpadie]

i would not be a fan of having to maintain software that someone else was installing. i'd consider building an update mechanism in your script; either upload the replacement files over a web connection and have your script change the files in the background or have the script pull files from a remote server and do the same. goes without saying that you need to put appropriate security in place for both methods.