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! > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > > -- Zareef Ahmed :: A PHP Developer in India ( Delhi ) Homepage :: http://www.zareef.net -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php