question: when making a news section, do I need a newsid?

[cindango]

and if so, can anyone tell me why?

Thanks.

[LordShryku]

No, you don't need one.

[cindango]

Oh, well what is it for? Because I searched the forums and several people included a newsId.

[LordShryku]

Just like any sort of Id. It's a unique identifier for each story you want to access. You'd query the database according to this Id. It's easier and faster to set it up like that in the database, with this id setup as the primary key, then it is to query
where subject = "Something Happened Here on Some Day"

[cindango]

I see, thank you. 🙂