Hi, Please send the code that you used with the hrefs so we can see where the error occurs. Tell us what line the error occured (and what line in your copied code that is). Jos -----Original Message----- From: John Burroughs [mailto:johnaburroughs@xxxxxxxxx] Sent: 21 March 2005 03:29 To: php-db@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Query that generates href links Hi everyone, I've created a database for my poetry that I've written. I have a table called Titles. It is made up of: title_id (a different number for every poem title. It's the primary key.) title (the title of the poem) title_date (the date I wrote the poem. stored in Date format.) I want to generate an html page that lists all of the poems that I've written in descending order by date. I want each title to be in an href link so my visitors can just click on a link, which will automatically generate a page to display that poem. So for example, each finished line would look like . . . <p><a href="poem.php?titleid=1">Poem Title 1</a> - 1/25/05</p> <p><a href="poem.php?titleid=2">Poem Title 2</a> - 1/20/05</p> <p><a href="poem.php?titleid=3">Poem Title 3</a> - 1/15/05</p> This is my code fragment. This works for printing the Titles and dates in descending order, but that was as far as I could get. //Select the poetry database if (!@mysql_select_db("bdweb320883_poetry")) { echo("<p>Unable to locate the poetry " . "database at this time.</p>"); exit(); } //Result the titles of all of the poems that I've written $result = @mysql_query("Select title, title_date from titles order by title_date DESC"); if(!$result) { echo("<p>Error performing query: " . mysql_error() . "</p>"); exit(); } //Display the title of each poem while ($row = mysql_fetch_array($result)) { $poetrytitle = $row['title']; $poetrydate = $row['title_date']; echo("<p>" . $poetrytitle . " - " . $poetrydate . "</p>"); } How can I do this. Everytime I tried adding to the above code, I kept getting error messages in php saying that there was an unexpected '>'character on line such and such, but I don't know how I could even check to see which line had the error? (I'm using myphpadmin to manage my MySQL database.) Now my connection to my MySQL server for my online hosting company has been done for 12 hours and I haven't been able to work on it anymore. Does anyone know an easy way to do this? Thanks, John Burroughs -- John Burroughs http://johnaburroughs.com --- avast! Antivirus: Outbound message clean. Virus Database (VPS): 0511-1, 03/17/2005 Tested on: 3/20/2005 9:28:43 PM avast! - copyright (c) 1988-2004 ALWIL Software. http://www.avast.com -- PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php -- PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
