mielkman

From the other side, I want to say thanks for continuing to help out, many of us are just so new to this, we don't even know what we'd search for to find examples of our problems. Another thing to keep in mind that while the link between one solution and our problem may seem clear and obvious to someone with skill and experience, a newbie doesn't draw those lines as immediately as you all do. And finally from my days working the tech support phones, "If you are not here to answer the phones, you will leave before you reach six months. Some people come here thinking they are just getting free internet, or they are going to become an executive, but until you get a change of job, you are here to answer the phones." Some of this is basically volunteer tech support. Plain and simple, solving problems with and for idiots makes you a better problem solver than if you only solved smart people problems. If you didn't want to solve them, I assume you'd leave. Finally, Thank you for doing this, and making this community what it is, it is nice to know that for those willing and eager to learn, there will be someone willing to help steer us true.

Here's the first thing I'm hoping to do: I want to make a module that displays pictures that I place in a folder to be displayed sequentially like a slideshow. I want to do it in such a way that all I have to do is change the jpgs that are in the folder to change the pictures that show in the slide-show. The other module I make is evolving as I go. I want it to check an e-mail and take the body text and add it to a news section on my website along with the date of the website. I've found a few things out there on the web that do similar stuff to what I want, but the more information the better. I also have a big book on php to dig through so hopefully I won't be so ignorant as time goes on. thanks for your help!

I'm totally new to php, I'm actually doing web work for the first time in over 3 years. Basically the whole world has changed and I have to start over learning! My first two projects need to call up images and text files stored folder by folder. Can you point me to some good applications that deal with bringing up images and opening files that will help me learn some basic control?