cleverlyslick

Hello folks! I had a dream about a videosite and now I can't get it out of my head. I would like to create it but don't know how to get started can anyone give me advice on where to start? I'm still learning php and I am newb but I wouldn't publish the videosite for like 6 month to a year from now as I want to play around with coding first and see what results I get. I just want to get pointed in the right direction on where to start for a video site. here's a definite layout of how I want the site to look like. 1) I want 3 categorized sections in the homepage 2) I want thumbnail previews of the featured videos for each category on the homepage (I don't know how to make thumbnail layout either). 3) The thumbnails are going to be 5 5 thumbnails horizontally and 2 vertically example: category1: thumb1 thum2 thumb3 thumb4 thumb5 thumb6 thumb7 thumb8 thumb9 thumb10 category2: Thumb1 thumb2 thumb3 etc. etc. etc. hopefully you get the idea of what I would like in the homepage then when they drill down a certain category it will be thumbnails in 5 thumbs horizontally and 8 rows vertically. I hope it makes sense as i'm really looking for help with this and unfortunately have no money to hire a coder. This is driving me so crazy that i'm going to take php courses in January in the school of visual arts in new york lol. Someone please help. I read php and mysql books, I read the php.net website daily, i'm really trying to learn this language but time is also a factor and as humans we always want results right away. please post or pm me with any help you can give me. Thanks Again everybody.

tried it out and worked also! thanks guys.very helpful.you'll be hearing from a lot in this forum lol so brace yourselves.

THIS! Thanks a lot for your help Mike.Problem is solved! I use dreamweaver to make the form for me and completely forgot to enter where the action is going.very much appreciated. Hope to become an expert like you guys soon!

removed the curly braces,but still having same issues any other suggestions?

Hello folks! as I stated in my previous post I am a php newb and trying to learn slowly but surely. I'm creating a simple forms page and having trouble getting the output. here is the code.... <form id="form1" name="form1" method="post" action=""> <label for="textfield">credit score:</label> <input type="text" name="creditscore" id="creditscore" /> <p> <label for="submit"></label> <input type="submit" name="submit" id="submit" value="go" /> </p> </form> That's for the first page... <?php $creditscore = $_POST['creditscore']; echo "{creditscore}:"; ?> what i'm trying to do is have user enter their number in the box,click go and retrieve the result in the next page. when I test it to see if it works,it just shows the forms page again. can someone tell me what i'm doing wrong and how can I fix the problem? Again I only been playing with php for 2 weeks now so i'm still trying to learn. Thanks

Thanks dad00, that's exactly what I was looking for Thanks for the reference PF I will be sure to read through this site. appreciate the quick responses.

what's up php freaks. This is my first post in this forum and I am a newb at PHP(just started reading and toying with php about 2 weeks ago). I've been developing static,boring websites for a year now and want to make them a little more dynamic and a friend of mine recommended me learning php.it's been a nightmare ever since lol but I am hooked on learning this program and would like to conquer it if possible. Currently, I am working on building my first dynamic website and my question is this.... I want to use numbers from 200 to 1000 and want to put it in an array. Now I know how to do arrays,but I wanted to know if it's possible to shorten up the numbers in the arrays say for example like $array = array(200-300, 301 - 600, 601-800, 801-1000)and still have each individual number function properly instead of manually having to enter each number in the array without affecting the numbers when a user types it in? say for example a user wants to type 223 and gets the result with no problems. It just seems sloppy coding for me to have to manually enter each number in the array. I hope this post makes sense and hopefully get some responses. Thanks, cleverly "not so" slick