I need some script for my news page...

[stualk]

Hi folks,

Can anyone help? I have a news section on my website which is all PHP/database driven. I currently have 3 news items in the database, with the following fields: headline, summary, story_body, large_image_url

What happens is when you go to the news page it displays the first item from the database and the pic that goes with it. There are then arrows at the top, one pointing to the right, one to the left in the form of 'Next Item' and 'Previous Item' with the words '1 of 3' in between them.

I need to make the buttons work and I have no idea how to do this. The button pointing to the right needs to go to item 2, then to item 3 (i.e. right button = view next story). I could also do with disabling the left button when you view item 1 as there won't be anything to go back to.

Can anyone help me with this or point me in the direction of some script that will do exactly that for me? I need this pretty urgently.

Many thanks.

[LordShryku]

Take a look around the site for "pagination". What you're doing is basicly the same thing, but with only one article per page, this should be real easy to do.

[stualk]

Thanks for that. I can't seem to find anything on pagination on the site though. I've been on a few others too and the same happens. Is there any other name for it? Once I have an idea with the code I can get my site live pretty quickly.

[LordShryku]

Did you use the search function? Or check the bookmarked threads? I know this is all over the site.

[Z3RatuL]

You can see a tutorial about pagination here:

http://www.phpfreaks.com/tutorials/73/1.php