Re: Newbie Question re substr

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On Mon, 7 Mar 2005 22:23:19 -0500, Jackson Linux
<jackson.linux@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi,
> I'm really new and getting lots of help but need some assistance.
> 
> I'm running a script which gets specific articles from a database if
> they're entered in the URL after the ? . For instance if someone asks
> for
> 
> www.foo.com/index.htm?a=1234
> 
> then the script would look for an database entry with the id of 1234
> and display it in the page.
> 
> If there's no number specified (www.foo.com/index.htm) or if the number
> given is to an article which doesn't exist, it gets the titles of all
> the articles available and prints them as links to the proper article
> number.
> 
> I'd also like it to grab the first 200 characters of text from the
> $content field of the entry.
> 
> With help I have the title link part and I suspect I'm close but I keep
> messing up the syntax
> 
> The code is:
> 
> <snip>
> 
> if (!empty($where)) {
> 
> echo "
>  <ul>";
>   $article = mysql_fetch_assoc($result);
> } else {
> while ($article = mysql_fetch_assoc($result)) {
>   $table_of_contents[] = "
> <li><a href='{$_SERVER['PHP_SELF']}?a={$article['article_id']}'

> title='{$article['title']}'>{$article['title']}</a><br />
> $article['content'] = substr($article['content'], 0 200);</li>";

change these two lines to 

title='{$article['title']}'>{$article['title']}</a><br />".
substr($article['content'], 0, 200)."</li>";

zareef ahmed 


> }
> }
> 
> echo "
>  </ul>";
> 
> </snip>
> 
> Can anyone help ?
> 
> Thanks in advance!
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