I am making a site where I want to let any user create a page that is going to work in part like a blog.

My original plan was to have a database and give each user their own row and then every news post they have will go in the column 'body' and just have it seperated by something like ;%(@*; and I could explode it into an array.

Few problems with that. One there is the chance that for some reason, eventually someone will find my divider string and then my script doesnt work anymore. More importantly I think this has to be incredibly inefficient.

Any ideas of how I can go about this in a more intelligent way?

Use one database table for users, and have a second database table for posts. The 'users' table would have fields like user_id, username, password, etc. The 'posts' table would have fields like post_id, user_id, and body. Each news post that a user posts should go into its own row in this 'posts' table.

wow that is much smarter than what I was going to do. Thanks.