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Aug 16.2006

Right now I have a News/Updates Section on the homepage of a website I’m working on. It working great but I’m wondering how I’ll be able to handle the mass amount of news/updates to come. For example, right now every post a user makes is stored on a single page (live_news.php). Now, once this website gets public, the owner anticipates a lot of news to be shown. The thing is, I’m afraid the page will end up being so incredibly long, that the users will have a hard time loading it. Is there a way I can span the older news post onto other pages (Page 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, etc) with about 5-7 posts on each page?

Now, I know it’s possible, because I’ve seen it almost everywhere. So if anyone could lend a hand it would be greatly appreciated =)!

[URL=http://oshawapss.ca/testing/AQUA/home.php]Here is the page[/URL] that will show the news. If you want the code just let me know!

Thanks!

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@bokehAug 16.2006 — Yes, it's called pagination.
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@sheepo-designsauthorAug 16.2006 — is [URL=http://api.rubyonrails.com/classes/ActionController/Pagination.html]this what you mean[/URL]?
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@bokehAug 16.2006 — That is ruby (nothing to do with php). Are the news items being stored in MySQL?
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@sheepo-designsauthorAug 17.2006 — I wasn't planning on it. But it al depends on what kind of host m client is looking for. I know most popular hosts support MySQL, but my client is looking into bying their own sever. They have their own server right now, but it was setup to ony support a single page website.

Would it be easier to use MySQL? or just to create text files for every news/update posted?
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@pcthugAug 17.2006 — MySQL would be more secure, efficient, accessible and manipulative then a flat-file system. MySQL is the preferred data storage solution when working with PHP; it is open-source (free), tightly integrated with PHP and is reasonably powerful.
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@sheepo-designsauthorAug 17.2006 — I've tried working with MySQL before, it proved to be wuite complicated. Do you know of anywhere to take tutorials? or is this a Google situation?
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@sheepo-designsauthorAug 17.2006 — Wow thanks a lot pcthug!
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