I need help

[Kalen Nighteyes]

I know that http://www.ctrlaltdel-online.com/ was done with PHP. What I want to know is how they made the news box look unattatched to everything else. Can anyone help me with how this is done so I can make mine appear unattatched to everything?

[Kalen Nighteyes]

I'm not going to copy what they did, I just need to know how to do it. Please help... that is why I joined here...

[ukgeoff]

Are you asking about the grey boxes down the middle of the page?

[Kalen Nighteyes]

If it has the green bar and a picture of a comic guy in it then yes.

[sypher]

They are just standard tables. Dynamically generated with data from mysql via php.

[Kalen Nighteyes]

But I don't understand how its done... I'm new to this stuff... how do you do it?

[sypher]

First you need to learn the basics of php/mysql.

www.tutorialized.com read as many php tutorials as possible.

[flann]

view the source of the website. You will see how they put the table together. And as stated above, php prints that html depending on the logic in the code. Play around with it, and should become apparent how things are done.

[masonbarge]

I'll be happy to help but this is really just too basic to answer. Find a tutorial on cms and walk through it.

The basic way is to have the html at the top and bottom of the page as separate static files and use include to put them at the top and bottom. Then you use php to add dynamic content, either by starting and stopping php or else by using "echo" to add the html markup, like:

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<div class="lower">
<?php
$query = "SELECT name, biography FROM pornstars blah blah";
$result = mysql_query ($query);
blah blah;
?>
</div>

or else

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<div class="lower">
<?php
echo ('<div class="lower">');
$query = "SELECT name, biography FROM pornstars blah blah";
$result = mysql_query ($query);
blah blah;
echo ('</div>');
?>