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ok, done that. now how do i feed it to my database. and where do i get the content for it? and are rss involved with this somehow? i'm sorry, im a real mysql nub.

going back to the mysql database for adding news content on my page.. exactly what must i do to do that? I'm just looking to add news from say.. msn or some third party news syndicate but I would prefer to somehow automatically update that portion. Ive seen a few RSS feeds so i was wondering what would be best for my situation. www.rankreview.com the left side would be my news content part. what do u suggest i do and exactly how would i do it???? I'm so lost when it comes to that stuff. Also, i had a question off the topic but I was wondering how [a href=\"http://www.prosportsdaily.com/\" target=\"_blank\"]http://www.prosportsdaily.com/[/a] works. obviously the owner of the site doesn't update all those .htmls daily. I mean.. 20-something teams for a good 5 different sports is impossible. I understand that he made his page look for keywords from certain pages. I could be really off too..

what if they are php files that i would like to put in? does it matter or can i just switch the .html part to .php?

doesn't that mean i have to add those lines for EVERY link i have to my site???

Hi I created a site and I heard somewhere that creating tables in php is much better than framing in HTML. So, i did exactly that. [a href=\"http://www.rav3online.com/randysocandy/rr/HTML/\" target=\"_blank\"]http://www.rav3online.com/randysocandy/rr/HTML/[/a] thats the beta stage of my site, don't laugh, it's pretty mediocre as I am just learning this. anywho.. i've realized that using the php instead of frames is very beneficial when it comes to site changes. This way, I won't have to change EVERY single .php file in order to keep the site maintained. But as I was making the files, I had a index.php attached with a main.php as the main page content. I have a link that leads to the about us page. But hte problem was, when i linked it to the aboutus page, i realized it only linked to that specific file instead of the index + aboutus.php . Is there a way so that I could somehow keep the index.php and add whatever content i need for each link???? I can't seem to figure out how the linking works without having to create two aboutus php files. It's very frustrating =( PLEASE HELP! I'm sorry if my noobiness has confused u. let me know so i can clarify the problem a little more!! p.s. - is there a way that I can somehow automatically feed my sidebar to receive updated news?? I hate the fact that I have to update it every single time. There's gotta be an easier way no? -randy