Multiple image pages

Help with new site

[cyclic]

I have built a site which has a list of products which are linked to individual javascript pop-up windows. This list is now quite long and manually inserting a new page for each product when it changes is quite laborious.

Is there a way of databasing the images and text, or a simpler method?

[rewboss]

How do you actually have this organized? I'm trying to see how the task of putting in new pages might get more laborious with time; it sounds like you have to update every page each time.

[Nick_W]

Yes, but nothing that can be explained from the ground up easily.

If your host runs php/mysql you should check out the manuals at www.php.net and www.mysql.com to give yourself an introduction.

Nick

[cyclic]

Thanks, I have 25 pages i.e. pop-up windows linked from a text only descriptive menu. As the stock changes I update one page at a time as required. These pages contain one image and some descriptive text.

[Nick_W]

Doesn't sound too bad?

If you had them in a db with a templating system as well then it might be a little slicker but you'd still have to edit the db info wouldn't you?

Unless you a: want to learn about db's etc, or b: the stock increases a bit, you're probably going to best off as you are....

Nick

[cyclic]

Thanks Nick

Would mySQL be suitable for such a purpose? I have a little experience with dbs.

[Knowles]

cyclic yes it would work for it. How large do you plan on the site getting? 25 products are alot but unless its really going to double your going to spend as much time adding one every now and then as you would trying to learn PHP and MySQL and coding an application to make the updating a little easier.