Fwd: [PHP] Newbie Question re substr

Thanks, Kim! Still having difficulties though...... On 8 Mar 2005, at 03:29, Kim Madsen wrote:

From: Jackson Linux [mailto:jackson.linux@gmail.com] Sent: 8. marts 2005 04:23 First of all, echo the output to see if You get, what Tou expect in a debug situation: 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'], 0 200); // 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
    print "<li><a href='{" . $_SERVER['PHP_SELF'] . "}?a={$article_id}'}&title='{$title}'>{$article['title']}</a><br />\n$content</li>";

} } echo "  </ul>"; I´ve put the "&" in front of title since the link otherwise would be <a href="a=1234title=sometext">, which is not what You want I guess. And I substituted the $article['content'] = substr($article['content'], 0 200);</li>"; } } with $content</li>"; since I believe You want to print the content and not just assign it? Otherwise the <br /> makes no sense :-)

Can anyone help ?

I hop that did the trick for You :-)

It's really sensible and logical what you did. I really appreciate it.

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 2. This correction:

I´ve put the "&" in front of title since the link otherwise would be <a href="a=1234title=sometext">, which is not what You want I guess.

Wow. Actually I wanted it to make <a href='a=1234' title='sometext'> - does this: print "<li><a href='{" . $_SERVER['PHP_SELF'] . "}?a={$article_id}'}' title='{$title}'>{$article['title']}</a><br />\n$content</li>"; do that? (I ask because I can;t make any of it work?!) Thanks so much for your help.

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