Newbie to PHP, simple banner code

[Anon]

First, I am NOT a programmer, my background is in sales. I understand a bit of Perl but I have little experience with databases.
I DO know HTML though.

I have looked through every online article or resource I could find, but they all seem to jump from simple to complex very quickly. I DO know HTML though.

Here's what we would like to have.

We don't have a lot of banners (8), just a lot of pages, and I will manually change the banners.

But is there a way to embed PHP to print this?

<a href="some URL from a text file"><img src="some image from banner pool"><br>sales text</a>

Where I can call different banners by changing where PHP looks for the txt and img files.
Do I need to do a fopen? or something similar?

Any help will be greatly appreciated.

[Anon]

huh

[Anon]

( @ )

I am a Linux user brazilian

I Want have access to parallel and serials ports.
Can you help me like to do it ?

Excuse-me my english.

Wanderlei Silva do Carmo

[e-mail]
My Home Page: www.geocities.com/w3ae

Thank you

[Anon]

You should be able to do this with hte "include" or "require" function. Go to <a href=http://www.php.net>www.php.net</a> and use the quick reference to look up those and thier syntax. But basically, you would just put in something like this:
<?php
require ($DOCUMENT_ROOT .'/includes/currentbanner.htm');
?>
And then the file for the banner would just be simple HTML with only the link text and image you wanted.

Of course, you have to have php capabilities on your site, and for every page you wanted to do this on, you would either have to change the extension to php, or configure your server to process all htm files through the php engine too.

[Anon]

check out phpADs...

It will do everything you need, but requires PHP and MySQL...

Here is the URL:

http://phpwizard.net/projects/phpAds/

Kai