-ernie-

Hello,

My name is Ernie, I'm new to this forum. Not new to the adult industry, used to run a small site a few years back that I sold for the quick buck. Looking to get back into things for various reasons. I wanna start a new (lesbian) site and I wanna get it right from the start, and I remembered this forum being a pretty popular webmaster's hangout, so I figured I'd ask here.

Anyway, my questions concern scripting. I assume that most (if not all) of you update your site and manage your content through some elaborate script? Something that will allow you to add new galleries in a database and sort them into categories etc.
1. Does anybody have any suggestions as to what script would work the best for a small site? Don't need lots of features, so as simple as simple can be please.
2. If I don't find anything decent I'll probably write my own little php script, but I'm a bit concerned towards security. I'm planning on uploading a .zip file that I will unpack with shell_exec. Is there a risk involved in having that function activated on your server? Also, through php I cannot chmod the folder I want to put the files in to 777, which is needed for the script to work. I assume this is because the user php is running under does not have enough permissions. Anybody got an idea how to solve this? Create a new user with more privileges and run php under that one? Another piece of coding instead of the ftp_chmod and chmod functions? Any other tips for making a secure script are welcome as well of course.

Any help is greatly appreciated.