How to do this?

squeeze

I want to be able to setup a page that has Poems on it, but it will only show 1 poem at a time. When u click >>next it will show another one. I want to be able to do this only using only 1 page...theres to many to make seperate pages for each. How would I go about doing this? I'm not asking for a script, I just wanted to be pointed in the right direction...because I have no idea what to search for it.

planetsim

This has been discussed many a times.

Search the forum for pagination or next/previous scripts.

Pests

Suppose your pulling the poems out of a database, you could always use an ID to pull out which poem. Have the ID point to id-1 for the back and id+1 for the next. You could also do this with textfiles, ie: poem_1.txt, poem2.txt, ect. Just make the php script pull out the poem and put it on the page.

DeltaRho2K

I would be cautious about using the id-1 and id+1 for navigation. This could really get screwed up if you deleted a poem. For example, if you have 3 poems ( id 1, 2, and 3) and you deleted # 2, then by clicking the previous button on number 3, your result set would be empty, since #2 was deleted.

Also, the external text files probably wouldn't work either since it sounds like there are just too many... Searching for "Pagination" is the best thing... There was recently a post that had excellent help in it. (within the past week).

Good Luck.