[consulting] preview of a home page

[Greg Knaddison - GVS]

On 1/5/07, Sami Khan <sami at etopian.net> wrote:
> This method wouldn't work for any type of online site with multiple
> editors or multiple users who login to the server. If you have any sort
> of commits to the database, i.e. logs, user logins, etc. you're going to
> seriously bork things as you're going to be losing the data when you
> "promote" your content to the live server. It would work for a single
> user site with no one who logs in and you don't use Drupal for your
> primary logs.

Your critique is based on the assumption that the promotion method
over-writes all of the live data with the test data.  That's the wrong
assumption.

There are lots of promotion methods that would merge the front page
into an existing site (whether it's via  tpl file, or a front page
based on a single node where you copy/paste the content, or
exporting/importing the front page views).  The particulars of the
situation (that are unknown to all of us save Mariano) would dictate
the best promotion method.

I too made a possible wrong assumption - that Mariano is looking for a
solution for a technical user and/or a user with a sufficient budget
to cover some custom work.  It could also be that this solution needs
to work on a single site with a non-technical admin user running the
process.  If that's the case then he'll need some solution other than
the "svn commit, svn up" solution I had in mind.

Greg