PHP News site

[vicpal25]

Hello you guys!
I am an intermediate PHP developer and I just began a site. It will be a hip-hop community site that my client wants to put up. I was hoping anyone can give some ideas or tips on how to handle multiple news articles. I was thinking of placing stories in a database and then dynamically placing them by date, level of importance, category and so forth. Does anyone have any other suggestions? comments on how to approach this project in a more constructive way? Thanks!

[Jona]

You might want to just get a free content management system (CMS) (http://www.textpattern.com/) until you have better learned PHP and a database system.

[vicpal25]

Thats a nice tool....I mean I am frequent enough to dynamically place stories and retreive them..I mean is there anyone that has built a news site?

[DJsAC]

its pretty simple
Save the data to a database
add a column with the date.

then Select from table Where date >= todays_date()-7, Order by desc date

Echo those values into a table and you've got a news script

(easier said than done ;))