henriksteen

Hello. Pardon my english, it's bad (i'm a norwegian) and my PHP-skills are even worse, and I admit that i have not read every 7614 topics to see if this already is covered somewhere, but I got this idea/thought/question (when I started reading PHP this holiday!) of a solution I think very many would love. So, maybe this is a challenge for you clever PHP-freaks or maybe it's elementary for all I would know; is there a simple code/script/solution for this scenario: In the web there is a "sidebar"-folder that holds a collection of small "includes", sidebar1.inc sidebar2.inc sidebar3.inc etc. etc., each one are simple text/markup of two, five or ten lines, maybe a small picture. If the web-page called for is very short, the page/code will include one or two elements (sidebar1.inc, sidebar2.inc..). If the web-page is a longer article, the code would somehow "see" the length and add more sidebar-elements (...sidebar3 .. " 4 " 5 - .. sidebar7.inc etc.) as long as it's space in the sidebar...!? Of course, not 100% precise. But you grasp the idea? Well, I go back to page 44 in the PHP-bible and read on (I'm slow, but I try!), and then I return here with great excitement in a couple of days... Sincerely, Henrik, Oslo, Norway