Dynamic content ?

[Anon]

Hi all!
I know this might seem like a strange question without a real base to start from, but please bare with me.

I've started to re-model my own site recently and I realized that I had to make it dynamic with PHP and MySQL as base.

Now I’ve done a lot of functions in separate files that I want to call within the index.php file and then create the dynamic content.

But the problem is I don’t know how to call all my separate files from my index.php and then get the index to refresh with the result from the files in the right part of the index.

I have a menu at the left part of the screen exactly as PHPBuilder and I also want the dynamic part to be placed to the right as it is here, where the right part is dynamic…
The scripts I have in my separate files works fine for them self but I can’t manage to get them at the right part in the index… I simply don’t have a clue :-/

Is there an “easy” way to do this, create a dynamic site like the excellent PHPBuilder ?

Hmmm… I know this seems like a mess, but I hope you catch my point and problem

Regards Mikael :-)

[Anon]

I'm not quite sure what you mean about refreshing the index, but if you had a file, say leftbar.php which had the function drawleftbar() in it, you could put:

require("leftbar.php");

at the top of your index.php, and then just put

drawleftbar();

wherever you wanted it to run.

If leftbar.php didn't have functions, but just outputted stuff whenever it was called, just put the require() part where you want it, and it will run through the file.

Hope taht helps,

Danny

[Anon]

I have a menu at the right that says for example: Movie reviews
And then I have a separate file that get's all the reviews from database.
What I want is to replace the content to the right of the menu with the new data from the "movie" file and so on...

I hope this explains it a bit more :-)

/Mikael

[Anon]

How about, where you have the movie reviews section, you have say:

<B>Movies:</B><BR>
<?php require("movies.php"); ?>
<HR>
<B>OtherThing:</B><BR>
etc...

And movies.php runs database queries, and just prints out the movies list, links etc.

This wouls just put the output from movies.php into where the require() statement is.