Phillip S. Baker wrote:
Greetings Gents,
I have an interesting problem I would like some ideas on for a solution.
I was going to make a comment about the use of 'interesting' but thought
better of it. ;-)
I cannot seem to find any code examples on the net, though I might not
be looking in the right place really.
I have some articles stored in a MySQL DB.
What I want is if the article is above a certain length in characters,
to page article through a few pages for site readability.
So I would want to print X number of words/characters.
Save the where the pointer is, move on to the next page, and display the
same amount and so on for as many pages as needed.
I know about pulling paged results using the limit function but that
would not seem to apply as really I would want to page the results
within one record (one field really).
Does anyone have any ideas??
I'm with Jay on the ideas front, here is mine:
ON THE EDITING SIDE:
1. use a customizable wysiwyg web based editor to edit your articles.
2. add a button called 'page break' that inserts something like '<!-- PAGEBREAK
(notice I made it an HTML comment - that's handy, you can hopefully see why)
ON THE DISPLAY SIDE:
1. grab the [formatted] text for the item/article in question.
2. split the text on the string you button injects into the content
determine the selected page (via GET param or something like that) into an array
3. find the the array item corresponding the requested 'article page'
4. display the array item from point 3.
the philosphy is that any half-baked article author will know much better
where to place a 'page break' than any code you could write - because it comes
down to trying to automate DTP/design - which AFAIC only a human can do
properly.
Thanks
Phillip
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