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PHP is probably the easiest. My advice is to stick with it and see what you can accomplish. Hard work pays off in programming. My more specific advice is to not store images in a database, store the path to the image in the database instead and write the images to your harddrive using the filesystem.

Thanks guys, you are brilliant! I will give it a shot.

I am trying to create a loop that redefines a variable name and assigns values to be used later. In other programming languages I could use the counter itself as part of the variable name, by converting the loop INT to a STRING and concatenating that onto my generic variable name, BUT, I have not been able to figure out how to do this in PHP. So, I am reduced to this kludge ... writing a separate code block for each iteration of the loop. This keeps me awake at night, as I know there has to be a better way. For example, in the real world example below I would have thought I could get away with something like this: $str=(string)$i; //make the loop counter a string $headline . $str = $articleinfo['headline']; //create a new variable name for each loop! I appreciate any assistance. -- george for($i=1; $i<=6; $i++) { //fetch array $articleinfo=mysql_fetch_array($resultarticles); if($i==1) { //headline $headline1 = $articleinfo['headline']; //author $author1 = $articleinfo['author']; //article text $article1 = $articleinfo['article']; } //repeat until blue in face if($i==2) //etc { } //repeat until blue in face if($i==2) //etc { } //repeat until blue in face if($i==2) //etc { } //etc }