Re: Scrolling News

Sounds great, I'll start looking for a scroller on google. Anyone have any recommendations while I'm searching? Regards, Alex On 22/12/05 21:22, "John Meyer" <john.l.meyer@gmail.com> wrote: > On Thursday 22 December 2005 1:38 pm, Alex Major wrote: >> Hi there. >> I'm trying to make a scrolling news box for my website. Basically I would >> like this news box to get information from a column in my database called >> 'news_title' and display it in a scrolling news box. >> The reason I'd like it to do this is because there is already a news page >> on my website, which stores 'news_date' , 'news_poster' , >> 'news_title' , >> 'news_description' , 'news_content' in a table on my database. I'd >> just >> like to increase the functionality of this by having this news box on my >> front page, which scrolls the 'news_title'. >> >> Any suggestions for how to go about doing this? I'm still very new to php. >> >> Regards, >> Alex. > > > If you're thinking about a scroller (which is what I think you're hinting at), > you'll need to combine javascript and PHP. Essentially this is how I'd go > about it: > > 1. Find a scrolling news box written in Javascript. > 2. Where the static content is, rewrite it so that PHP writes out the > Javascript.