[Make Image Stay Left and Extend Width With White Background]

Hey there - I've go to do what the title says and I've come up with 2 ways of doing it.

Please give me any suggestions/comments/preferences - Thanks so much!!!

Idea I was going to use)
1)Make my original image huge and then chop off what I need

Other Idea)
1)create a new image thats is proper size with white background
2)paste the my smaller image all the way to the left

[simple insert command gone bad (please help!)]

I did it AndyB way and it worked fine....your write to columns as numbers...shame shame....

Thanks a heap - Jutboy

[simple insert command gone bad (please help!)]

I'm trying to keep track of all the movies a person votes for via their IP address.

This script inserts the users ip address and the fact they voted for movie 1 by changing the column 1 (signifying movie one) to the number 1 (default = 0 = not voted)...I really want to make the column 1 a variable and really don't want to change using an int as as my column.

$sqlr = "INSERT INTO voters (ip,1) VALUES ('$ip',1)";
mysql_query($sqlr) or die(mysql_error());

all values confirmed....db structure checked.

Please help!! Thank you so much - Justin