Two Newbie Questions

[alfman05302001]

I have started leaning PHP last week, and was able to create a page that puts the input of an HTML form onto a website (and that was quite exciting). Now that I know how powerful PHP is I want to use it more to make my website more feature filled (and easier on myself to update). So now that I've talked about how awesome PHP is I guess I should get to my questions?

1)
I have noticed there are a lot of tutorials that talk about uploading files to you sever, but none (or none that I have found) talk about how to automatically add that link to a webpage that lists the files that were uploaded. What I want to do is make it so the officers of the organization I am the webmaster for can post things such as minutes and have them easily accessible by the whole Exec Board.

2)
Being that we are an organization and new people are elected every year over the last couple years I have been webmaster I have learned how it is a pain to change all the links (and you are always bound to miss some of them). I was thinking there might be some way to store the emails as variables in an include file that would be included on every page. Then somehow the code it were the variables are the email address and name that way I only need to update the include file and every page has the links changed.

Any help someone could give me on these 2 would be great, and if anyone knows any good tutorials for people who are getting started that would be awesome too. My website is www.oalodge43.org (but most (all) of the PHP stuff is not linked to since it has yet to be approved.

Thanks
Jonathan

[bpat1434]

1)
I have noticed there are a lot of tutorials that talk about uploading files to you sever, but none (or none that I have found) talk about how to automatically add that link to a webpage that lists the files that were uploaded. What I want to do is make it so the officers of the organization I am the webmaster for can post things such as minutes and have them easily accessible by the whole Exec Board.

That would most easily be solved by a CMS.... XOOPS or Mambo would suffice....

2)
Being that we are an organization and new people are elected every year over the last couple years I have been webmaster I have learned how it is a pain to change all the links (and you are always bound to miss some of them). I was thinking there might be some way to store the emails as variables in an include file that would be included on every page. Then somehow the code it were the variables are the email address and name that way I only need to update the include file and every page has the links changed.

A simple "module" of the CMS would be easy to write-up for you. Basically the include would look something like:

<?php
$email_names = array('Joe Schmoe'=>'[e-mail]', 'Jane Doe'=>'[e-mail]');
// Modify as you see fit....

$html = '';  // Will be used later

foreach($email_names as $name=>$email)
{
  // Loop through the array, and make some links:
  $html .= '<a href="mailto:'.$email.'">'.$name.'</a><br>';
}

echo $html;
?>