Hi,

As the title states, I need alot of thought help (regarding this message)

Scenario:

I have a database that is setup with two tables: A category and subcategory table. The database is setup correctly, working as expected.

I also have some php code to display the categories.

What I am trying to do with the php code, (being all too patient and having no success I will add). is I want to link the categories to display the subcategories, then the subcategories will link to a custom page. Let me define the custom page:

Custom page = It will contain one line of php code that will output some advertisements and that one line of code is slightly different for each page. Plus I might use some java to do pagination on that page as well for the ads. I don't know what java pagination I will use, but I will definitely be using java, as php will run a muck on the one line of code previously mentioned.

How would I construct this code, and specifically, how would the custom page(s) be created? Could they be done dynamically? The idea is to have to create as few a pages as possible by hand (manually) as I will have several thousand subcategories so the links to the pages *should* be dyanmic, just how would I do that.

So far, I have a php page to output my categories data into adjustable columns, but links or custom page(s) are not set.

Please do help!

Thanks again!
Brian

Why load an entire Java applet to do simple pagination?

As for executing code stored in a DB field, you'd need to use eval().

If you're trying to create the links to those pages, you'd also need to have those URLs stored along inside the DB record. If you didn't, a script would need to spider your entire website looking for one file several thousand times!

I think that by "Java" you actually mean "Javascript". They are two different languages and apart from the name, they have little in common.

The "Custom page" can just be a php file that loads some DB content. The DB content should include your "one line of php code", the javscript to cycle the ads and any other actual information you have on this page.

Come to think of it, it sounds as if you'll want a simple CMS...

I meant javascript, as in something like dhtml to do that part. As far as the custom pages are concerned, none of the php code that is going into the custom pages can be 'cleanly' extracted from the db, that is why I am using the ad manager script for that purpose, it's the easiest way. Btw, the ad manager script is not customized, I purchased it and using it as is to (handle / display) the ads.so I don't plan on doing anything major to create a template. I would rather use a custom page that I would create from scratch and just paste the php code that is generated from the ad manager script and find a way to some how take only the part that is needed which is the zone and put it into the same template page so that it works for all pages. I just need help establishing / starting this process.

Thank you
Brian

so can anyone help do this category structure? Basically a left column that lists all categories, then when you click on a category subcategories will open in a div multi column layout and the subcategories will be linked to the zone pages. Ex: each zone has it's own 'page structure' but it's not a url. It's some php code that will be put into a page that will display the ads from a particular zone. So I could have 50 zones for example, and I would need to have 50 pages, but I would like those pages to be created as they are needed.

I have the multi column code at this time, I do NOT have any other code put together, however I did try, so I am asking again, for your time and support.

Note: I will not be home until after 1:00pm est. today.

Thank you
Brian

Anyone have a solution to this category structure dilemma?

From the lack of responses I think it's rather clear that people (I at least) don't really understand what you're really looking for. Your information is pretty vague and unclear. Try to explain it in a more contructive way. Also, what is this "ad manager script", what does it do and how do you use it? And how does the code that this ad manager generate look like?