Or just break the "page" up into sections and grab subsequent
sections from the DB. (?) That way you could easily code in a 'jump
to page 3 from page 6' type function, and your still just grabbing
data and spitting it out with out worrying about sessions getting
mangled or parsing for html comments that could get blasted by an
errant edit.
Ed
On May 3, 2006, at 5:25 PM, Jochem Maas wrote:
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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