Cool man, thanks for the help. I'll have a good read once I'm finish fucking my PC up...
And I'm actually not using intval anymore - that code is slightly outdated now, in that, I don't have intval there. The reason it WAS there, was to keep the code nice and safe for the time when the articles were just labelled "article_1"
It was making sure that it was just a number, and not a string/whatever.
Anyway, Yeah, you call it easy, for me, I suck, so it's not
I'll be moving it all database side eventually anyway, I have a basic review posting script that once it's finish I can modify for these needs. Right now, the first method (Giving it acceptable name tags) seems ok.