History/Rollback

Gavin,

I'm a developer, so if you guys need help implementing this I can help!

Off the top of my head though, here's one way it could be done (would allow at least ONE "rollback"):

Since SimpleCMS connects to the user's site via FTP, perhaps we could create a directory called "./rollback" and then, as a user goes to edit a page, we can save a copy of the page in that directory first, and then allow the user to edit as usual "Save Draft" and then "Publish Changes" -- next to the "Publish Changes" button, we can add another button that says: "Undo Latest Changes" and that would simply mv ./rollback/page-name.html ./page-name.html

Make sense??

Let me know what you think! =0)

my 2c:

Eric's idea would be in keeping with the idea that Simple CMS has very minimal coupling to the site - it can be removed/replaced as a CMS (or go back to regular flat file) pretty easily. Keeping a hard coded copy of the original files on the FTP server would fit this model... and I *think* Adobe Contribute does something like this?

Out of interest, what value is there currently in simpleCMS saving a record of changes further back that the last change (crash during update etc.)?

Hey I remember this post!!

Yeah, would love to see it if and when you guys can produce it! =0)