User Personalization with PHP: The Home Page

"The Main Script
So what is on the page? The script has the following sections:

"News headlines
Listing of the users stored bookmarks
Navigation panel
User image and name
Bookmark Recommendations

"These functional requirements have already been mentioned in the introductory article to the series. In this article, we will actually implement them. Take a look at the home page screenshot below to see it in action:

"As with the previous scripts, we have sectionalized the page in PHP and HTML code. But as you will see later on, the presentation layer (HTML) is mixed in with some PHP code--especially where the users' color scheme is implemented. Below is the PHP section of the page that retrieves the necessary database information:"

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