Can it be done like this......

Hey Alpha, no offense, but that was already said, and besides.........

Did you happen to look at when the last post was made before yours??.... almost a month..........yes....a month.

rather than go thru ALL that PHP,MySQL,and all that stuff....Myself I'd just make layers and hide and show the layers with OnMouseover or OnClick
like I did here
http://home.hiwaay.net/~cbutts/oddstuff/2ndtry/first_gui.html

that is a bunch of layers made in Dreamweaver that change as you roll over the buttons, taking away the need to have to reload multiple pages OR use frames.

While CGI, PHP, and all that stuff is really handy, I just dont see having to go that far to do what he's wanting done.

There is a way that lets you make the whole document lets say index.php and use that as the template. The instead of the content or there the content would be you insert a php code that makes sites be included like this: index.php?go=about if only index.php is called you will get the main page. I'm kinda in a hurry but if you need the code reply. ;)

Use PHP, just echo $id; and have page.php?id=

RTFM!

err .

1) i have read the php manual. And it doesnt teach you how to use it. It tells you the basics of programming, things that you could get in any programming class like what variables, constants and other things are. It does not explain to you how to use the language.
2) why do people always suggest someone read the manual? What if he already read the manual and understood it? Refer to point 1.

Hmm. I must admit it didn't help me very much either.

If you have used some programming language before, it shouldn't take long to catch onto.

Start by looking at little snippets, just play around.

Maybe use something like this to start off with:

$uptime = exec("uptime");
$uname = exec("uname -mrs");
echo "$uptime\n
\n$uname";
?>

Execute shell commands and prints the output.

You might find cat handy with PHP seeing as you are familiar with linux.

Iv'e done VB and ASP, Perl and Delphi and I've found that PHP was actually the language that I caught onto the fastest.

Give it a try.

Mail me if you need any help with PHP.

oops, silly HTML *G* slipped my mind.

Goes like this:

<?
$uptime = exec("uptime");
$uname = exec("uname -mrs");
echo "$uptime\n<br>\n$uname";
?>