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This is like a geek convention xd I'm glad I have all you guys to help me, since I'm pretty new to MySQL/PHP.

Hasn't anyone got any ideas about the name???????

GhoSt: I thought it might be better to have something to convert it, since some people's html skills aren't too great, and so we could have more control over the formatting. Still, its not really a priority, so we can get people to just input html if we're that short on time.

Hizzahn: Um... I don't really know anything about XML sweatdrop What I intended for the articles was for the author to put it in a form, which parses if time and stores it in the database. When the article needs to be viewed, the content and other info is pulled outta the database. No emails and messiness necessary, if we can get it to work. What I meant about size was that I didn't know there was a 'text' type that didn't have a limit on size, and 'varchar' only accepts 255(?) characters.

Tekno-Crystal: yusssssssss you sound very knowledgeable xd If you could send me your cookies/sessions login script to gdguild@gmail.com, that would be great! Will probably need help with it from you later as well. Thanks!

I didn't realise there was a 'text' type >.< That makes things much easier. If you happen to have any old scripts you've written for parsing plain text into html (like adding in line breaks and p tags n stuff?), or any resources that you've looked at for doing those, that would be reeeeeally handy. Eventually I think it would be cool to have a more sophisticated editor to allow someone to do bold and italics and add in pictures like in a Website Baker thingo, but that will come later I think.

Skinning doesn't sound too bad 3nodding I don't think we'll have time to complete it this month though, maybe give ourselves a bit more time and put that bit in later.

I'll try to find the time to browse web layouts on deviant art. There are so many it makes my eyes glaze over after a while xp

How about thinking of cool names? We need a cool name!!! xd

Didn't know about 'text', you should brush up on the table types razz . Other useful ones are 'int' (for integers obviously) and 'enum' for specific selections (like true or false). And about the login script, consider it done, I'll send you the code right away, and feel free to ask for help, because once you master sessions/cookies a whole new PHP world opens up for you wink .

As for old scripts, I've got bunches and bunches laying around, but I usually like to update them to make them more efficient, so if you'd like me to make a scirpt I'd be happy to, just tell me what you want it to do and I'll do it. But, as for things like line breaks, a simple str_replace can do that, you might want to give that a quick look up, the str_replace can do things like smilies, bold/italics and all that stuff (the BBcode is done with str_replace after all, it just replaces [ b ] with < b > ).

Everything I know about tables I learned at the place I did work experience at last month - and that was all 'learn by doing', so I know how to do some things, but there are large gaps in my knowledge, especially in fundamentals xp Thanks for the info, I was looking for a 'boolean' type, now I know its 'enum' 3nodding I got your cookies code, I'll read through it all and try to make sense of it, shouldn't be too hard since you've added nice easy explanations in it xd

For the article thingo script, so far all I want it to be able to do is take some text and add in the

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tags in the right places. Things like subheadings, links, bold and italics would be a bit harder, but if you know some way of doing it similar to the way its done in forums like this (as in just pressing a button and the code appears), that would make things much easier for the person submitting the article. Images I'm not sure how we'll work with... any ideas on that front?

Basically I just want it to be as easy as possible for the author of an article to submit it, without me having to go in and fix up coding errors.

Silver: No, sorry, I didnt see your post! That is a good idea. I believe it was StreetArtistNYC who came up with it? Her post on it and her poster should be around here somewhere. I like the sound of it 3nodding

fimion: Yay, another geek! Thanks for the offers of help; beware, I may take you up on it later.

I currently don't have a thumbnail making script, but I'll look it up and send you what I find.

As for the click to add code, thats done with javascript, and I can send you a nice code for that too if needed.

I've heard about actions (or whatever they're called) but I've never used them myself. And I think GhoSt-X is looking for a PHP script which generates its own thumbnails (like the Google image search).

Actions can be very useful! Saves you a lot of keystrokes and clicks.

Oh, I see, a script like that.... yeah, I got nothin'. Sorry. smile