PHP help really wanted!

[Pringles]

I need as much help as I can on this

I basicly want to create a website using PHP and would like to have this :-

http://www.mydomain.com/news/news.php?article=1

So each article has a number, however I don't know how to do this.

Please explain as simple as you can.
Thank you very much!

[Sxooter]

Here's the 10 cent tour of templates. First, make a template page that sorta kinda looks how you want your site. Then, break it up into logical pieces, so you have something like this:

index.html:

include "header.inc";
include "body.inc";
include "footer.inc";

body.inc:

include "some db connection class";
$res = query ($conn,"select body from filedata where id = '$id'");
$data = fetch_array($res,0);
print $data['body'];

This is the simplest type of thing. note that in body.inc I have non working commands on purpose, as you might use a different db or db class than I do. but it translates pretty well.