On 8 Mar 2005, at 11:40, Richard Lynch wrote:
1. $content = substr($article['content'], 0 200); // get first 200
chars is choking, and I've looked in docs and can't understand why.
I get
Parse error: parse error, unexpected T_LNUMBER in /usr/www/users/domain/dynamic/templates/substr.htm on line 57
In this line, PHP is somehow encountering a T_NUMBER (a number) where it
*expects* to see something else.
Like a comma.
Look between your 0 and 200 very carefully.
Thanks for taking the time. I had suspected that earlier, but when I put it in all sorts of OTHER stuff happened.
Then I saw your post and tried again. I saw that I had made another mistake later on. So you've solved that part - thanks!.
Except....Except it doesn't pull the content from the db and substr it to 200 characters. It pulls the id number and the title no problem, and I am sure that $article['content'] points to the right place (or at least it's named right) but it's just not getting the content:
if (!empty($where)) {echo "
<ul>";
$article = mysql_fetch_assoc($result);
} else {
while ($article = mysql_fetch_assoc($result)) {
// humanize data
$article_id = $article['article_id'];
$title = $article['title'];
$content = substr($article['content'], 0, 400); // get first 200 chars
// print and see if we get, what we expect
// print "id=$article_id<br>title=$title<br>content=$content<p>";
// now make the real stuff
$table_of_contents[] = "<li><a href='{$_SERVER['PHP_SELF']}? a={$article_id}'}&title='{$title}'>{$article['title']}</a><br/ >$content<br /><a href='{$_SERVER['PHP_SELF']}?a={$article['article_id']}' title='{$article['title']}'> ... [Read article]</a></li></li>";
}
}
echo " </ul>";
Thanks in advance. . .
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