simple cms

[jameschambers]

Hi

As I'm sure you will be able to tell, I'm very new to this whole php thing. I'm basically trying to set up a really simple CMS, one in which a list of topic titles is displayed in an a menu on the left, then when you click on the title it brings up the whole 'article'. The code here is code taken from an existing cms and modified, but as i say i'm pretty new to this and have come to a bit of a dead end.

the header.php is included on every page, and is the 'menu' part of it.
the page.php is the script i want to display the individual articles.

I know i need to pass the ID for the specific article to the page.php but am at a bit of a loss as to how to do it.

Very grateful for any help


[b]header.php[/b]
<?php
if (!isset($_REQUEST['page'])&&!isset($_REQUEST['story']))

$page = 'news';
$story = intval($_REQUEST['story']);

include_once('db_fns.php');

$handle = db_connect();
if($story)
{
$query = "select * from stories
where id = '$story' and
published is not null";
}
else
{
$query = "select * from stories
where page = '$page' and
published is not null
order by published desc";
}
$result = $handle->query($query);

while ($story = $result->fetch_assoc())
{
// headline
echo "<ul id='homemenu'>";
echo "<li><a href='page.php?id=$story'>{$story['headline']}</a></li>";
echo "</ul>";
}
?>

[b]page.php[/b]
<?php
if (!isset($_REQUEST['page'])&&!isset($_REQUEST['story']))
{
header('Location: index.php');
exit;
}

$page = ($_REQUEST['page']);
$story = intval($_REQUEST['story']);

include_once('db_fns.php');
include_once('header.php');

$handle = db_connect();
if($story)
{
$query = "select * from stories
where id = '$story' and
published is not null";
}
else
{
$query = "select * from stories
where page = '$page' and
published is not null
order by published desc";
}
$result = $handle->query($query);

while ($story = $result->fetch_assoc())
{
// headline
echo "<div id='contentouter'>";
echo "<h2>{$story['headline']}</h2>";
//picture
if ($story['picture'])
{
echo '<div style="float:right; margin:0px 0px 6px 6px;">';
echo '<img src="resize_image.php?image=';
echo urlencode($story[picture]);
echo '&max_width=900&max_height=900" align = right/></div>';
}
// byline
$w = get_writer_record($story['writer']);
echo '<br /><p class="byline">';
echo $w[full_name].', ';
echo date('M d, H:i', $story['modified']);
echo '</p>';
// main text
echo $story['story_text'];
}
echo "</div>";
?>