hi nic, welcome to Silverstripe

This is pretty straidforward, you just need to output whatever content you want in the ticker into the right markup on your page. Having looked briefly at the ticker code it looks like you would do something like this:

<div id="TICKER" STYLE="overflow:hidden; width:520px">
$TickerContent
</div>

where TickerContent is a field in the $db array.

You could also make it more dynamic and grab content from various pages via a DataObject::get call outputting something like this:

<div id="TICKER" STYLE="overflow:hidden; width:520px">
<% control LatestNews %>
$Title - $Content.FirstSentence
<% end_control %>
</div>

where LatestNews is your function that returns a number of news pages or such like.
Hope that helps

Please can someone give some tips for me to get started. What is the $db array ? I want to make it as simple as possible for my user to add news items that will display in the scrolling area on the home page. For this I would need to have a page or a form which can be edited to add /delete news items. Even if it is a simple page not a problem. But how do I get the content then from this page into the DIV that displays it? Please urgent help is sought.

This is basically what i want to do:
http://www.devarticles.com/c/a/JavaScript/Creating-a-Scrolling-News-Panel/1/

Only thing is : what approach to take to get the content from a page into the div ?

Thanks in advance for any suggestions/help.

I went through the docs but I could not find anywhere a specific solution to my problem. I need to get content from a page into a DIV tag on another page. How do I do that?

Nostrad,

have a look at tutorial 2 and find the section called 'Showing the latest news on the home page' : http://doc.silverstripe.com/doku.php?id=tutorial:2-extending-a-basic-site