can someone kindly help?? thanx a lot

[pampam]

hello... i am new in php..
i am setting up a forum using php and mysql..
jus faced this problem over here:

my main page is "forum.htm"
From there, there are 5 sections: "announce.php", "bug.php", "questions.php", "feedback.php" and "test.php"

on the 5 php pages above, theres a link to post new thread (which will refer to "newthread.php" for posting)

I have used "INSERT TO ..." statement and the details can appear in my database.

But how do I fetch the datas out and display it on to the pages?

Another questions is: Do I need 5 different php pages for "newthreads" for the 5 php sections or 1 will do, if it is 1, what is the statement to include in my code so that the database knows what data to fetch out to the correct sections??

And lastly: To ASP programmers out there, in ASP, theres respose.redirect(.........), is there any similar codes in php to redirect users to other pages??

Please kindly answer my questions... thanx a lot ....!!!

[drawmack]

to redirect in php: header("Location: xxx.xxxxxx.xxx");

why don't you use a prebuilt free forum like phpbb?

[Weedpacket]

You can have one newthreads.php page; you can pass it the name or a number representing which section you want to fetch records for in the querystring part of the URL. For example (to use the URL for this forum)
http://www.phpbuilder.com/board/forumdisplay.php?s=&forumid=2

where '2' is the number that represents the General Help forum in PHPBuilder's database.