Question about PHP

#1

I'm starting to learn it, I'm working on something for my site and I want to know if this is practical to do.

Every morning one of my site staff updates the news section with the day's stories. He's not super with html, and I want to make the process more streamlined. Right now he has to format the links correctly in html then add them to the correct part of the page.

Is it possible for me to create a page with multiple inputs for the url and name of the link, and create a PHP file that can take the input, format it correctly and add it to the news section? My understanding of PHP is very limited, but from what I know of it I think this is something that would be practical.

#2

Yeah, that should be pretty simple to do..
Do you have a MySQL (or similar) database that could be used instead of modifing the file directly..?

#3

I have one yes, would I have to put my site into the database? I'm not super savvy with this stuff, you'll have to forgive me.

#4

http://www.solucija.com/home/snews/

Sounds like what you need..
Otherwise I guess I could custom-build a solution for ya.. lol