displaying content dynamically?

Hi,
I wish to make my page more dynamic. However, I'm stuck.

The main page is the index page whitch has 3 columns. The left column is the categories section and calls the right column which is the menu section. The menu will call the middle column.

Here's the basic structure of the left col:

 
$cat_id = $row['cat_id'];
       $cat = $row['cat'];
  echo "<a href=\"index.php?menu=$cat\">$cat</a><br/>";

PHP:

Now the index page uses this to call the content:

 
if (!isset($_REQUEST['menu']))
                include("right.php");
           else
           {
                $content2 = $_REQUEST['menu'];
                $nextpage2 = $content2 . ".inc.php";
                include($nextpage2);
            }

PHP:

As you can see, I was using individual pages. Is it possible to call database information(specifically rows) instead of individual pages?

 

http://us2.php.net/manual/en/function.mysql-fetch-assoc.php

 

oh
i figured it out
but thanks though