Links from a DB etc

[chrisguk]

Hi guys,

I ask the following question not because I want you to write the code for me, but to get some direction because I don't even know what search term to use.

Basically I need the following:

I have a simple list in the side bar like the following:

<ul>

<li><a href="apage.html">page1</a></li>
<li><a href="apage2.html">page2</a></li>
<li><a href="apage3.html">page3</a></li>

</ul>

I would like these links not only to be stored in a DB but to dynamically generate another <li></li> tag once more links are added in the DB.

Is there a way to do this. You may ask why. Well I am trying to build my own little CMS project and this is part of one of the learning steps.

[NogDog]

Sure. Just do your DB query to get all the desired values, then use a while() loop on the result set to output each within the appropriate HTML.

while(($row = applicable_db_fetch_function()) != false) {
    echo "<li><a href='{$row['link']}'>{$row['name']}</a></li>\n";
}