Hello all! I have a question. I am creating a subpage called "My Library," In which, as you would guess, I will be listing the books that I have on my bookshelf here at home. It also will include my review of the book, the copyright date, and a rating. (1-5 flowers!) I want visitors to be able to view information by title, copyright date, and rating. Is there an easier way to do this, other than manually adding a book to the each list every time I want to add a new one? It seems like there would be a code to make this project easier.

Thank you for all your help!

Yeah I know there is some way to do it, I've heard of it before, but unfortunately I am not the best person to ask:)

Do you know one would use HTML, php, or something else? It seems to me that one would use php...however, I don't have much php knowledge and would appreciate a much easier way! :)

PHP would be a good start.
PHP combined with a MySQL database would be best.
or if you want to get a bit technical and go with XML coding, that could work too.

either which way, it may take a bit of time to learn.

Ok...I have begun a mySQL database...you can see it at http://www.bradburn-family.com/hi.php (lousy file name...I was in a hurry!)

That's a start. What I want is for a user to click on "Title," which is the first, and have it automatically alphabetize it for me. Is there any way to do that? Afterwards, I will also try to do the same with the copyright dates, and make the ascending numbers.

Thank you!

if you have the data in a database, you can sort the information like so...

SELECT * FROM tablename ORDER BY fieldname;

during a link click, pass a variable information to represent which field name to be used during the SELECT process.

Thank you so much for all your help! You can see the almost finished product here....I still have to add a few books though :)

http://www.bradburn-family.com/library/hi.php

good work.