2 PHP Ideas I have

[mikka23]

Okay I don't know any php but would like to know if the following is possible and if so how to go about it:

1. I have a news script and would like the title of the news article to be given a header tag which increases as you go down the page. EG I have my top article with title <h1> my second title <h2> all the way down the page until it reaches say <h5>. After <h5> it calls all the articles below that <h5>


2. Download management system. It would be good If I could get a simple download management system to make adding downloads easier:
- categories
- title
- url to download
- description
- thumbnail

added bonus click counter and easy applied search feature.

Im not sure how easy it is to do these but I assume for the download management the information can be submitted through a form into a mysl database then the record set echoed to the download page. Not sure how to get in categories or do any of that though

[masonbarge]

Originally Posted by mikka23

Okay I don't know any php but would like to know if the following is possible and if so how to go about it:

I don't mean this sarcastically at all, but the way to go about it is to learn php and mysql. My first book was "PHP and MySQL for Dynamic Web Sites" by Larry Ullman, and I would recommend it highly.

1. I have a news script and would like the title of the news article to be given a header tag which increases as you go down the page. EG I have my top article with title <h1> my second title <h2> all the way down the page until it reaches say <h5>. After <h5> it calls all the articles below that <h5>

This would be fairly easy if it's coming from a database. My first php project was a code module that would read news articles from a database, putting the newest article in the top slot, second in the second etc. Incrementing <h1> would be trivial.

2. Download management system. It would be good If I could get a simple download management system to make adding downloads easier:
- categories
- title
- url to download
- description
- thumbnail

This is unclear -- who is downloading what? -- but it doesn't sound like anything I've done anyway.