Display news on website

[Anon]

Hello there
Im new to all this and like display news to my website.
Let´s asmume that I write somthing to display on my page and when somone come to my site he can read part of the text and then the user have to press more to read it all. In this way I can put more news to my news to my site.

If someone can help me then 🙂)

[techek]

Sounds like a pretty nifty idea you got. But you've got to decide for a couple of things before making MSN 2 or the like ...

• Would you use a DB to store your articles or in a textfile?

• Add more questions here!

To give you some hints, have a look at how PHP handles variables (in URL's too!) and then take a look at how DB's work. Then you might get an idea of where to head.

Good luck!

[amcgrath]

You could cut the text up based on a delimiter (like a newline, for example, or a period, or only display X characters of the "news" item (ie using substr(), or split(), or explode(), etc...) regardless of where the data is stored... though in a db you could have a summary column for this type of display...