Look at (for example) the mySQL database suport for PHP. That will give you the basics for reading (and writing) database records.
As for parsing this text, that's going to be up to you - I suppose ideally store the text in a 'structured' format: part1~part2~part3 etc then you can just use: $result = explode("~", $data); Ken <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... > Is it possible to have PHP parse text queried from > a database (security issues notwithstanding)? > If so, how? > _Ken > > -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To contact the list administrators, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]