Re: FW: [PHP] What is an information_id in directory

Ernie Kemp wrote:

2 - Make a new content area in Site Manager->Content Manager. It doesn't matter what you put in your content area, you could just put "This is my new content area" or "Hello World" if you so choose. 3 - Grab the information_id of the new content area you made. When you are editing a content area that already exists, the information_id can be gotten from the update page URL. I'm having trouble understanding this request: 1. In item #2 the client wishes to put content here, I can only guess he means a file with text in it. ????? 2. Item #3 I know what an ID is but not in this context. I'm don't understand what the client wishes here.??

Assuming that this is a site that is powered by a database, then one would be creating a new record in the database to store the content in rather than a new file, although one could get away with a list of files. The problem is you need to identify the next 'file/content' number, and that needs the 'information_id'. Using a database, there would be a unique index on the 'information_id' field, and you would just look up in the database to see if a number exists and pull the data from that record. Creating a new page just grabs the next 'information_id' number. One could get away by looking for the 'biggest' file number, but I suspect that 'Site Manager->Content Manager' already has some of the infrastructure to manage this? -- Lester Caine - G8HFL ----------------------------- Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - http://enquirysolve.com/ Model Engineers Digital Workshop - http://medw.co.uk// Firebird - http://www.firebirdsql.org/index.php