PHP/MySQL for News Site

Anon

My question is: do you know of a way that I could enter into a form the URL and title of a news story which would submit into a database and then show up on the main page?

I realize it's all just plain html now, but I am going to convert it into php.

I could probably do just flat file, which I don't know exactly how to do. But I'd like to keep all the submissions, which would stay in the database.

Either way is fine.

Thanks in advance.

Kyle

Anon

thanks for thinking out loud...

what is your problem?

if you are asking CAN php do that? yes of course, that is basically exactlly what it was made for.

i think you might be confused about how it works... PHP is server side, so the users will still just see plain old HTML...

for a flat file, you would query the latest x articles, read their contents, and write them to a file, and then just include that file (using php or SSI) into your main page.

Anon

you're welcome...

I'm wondering HOW it can.

My reference to plain old HTML is about the file format.

I don't want the contents of a news story on there. I want to link to it.

I want the url and title entered into a database just to keep a record of all news stories ever linked.

thanks for any help