Thankyou, put me on the right track :) "Jasper Bryant-Greene" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Hi Eric > > What you need to do is make another PHP page, maybe info.php, which will > fetch the info field from the DB and display it. > > So for example, assuming the eventname field is unique, you could make > the info like something like: > > <a href="info.php?eventname=<?=urlencode($eventname)?>">information</a> > > And then make info.php fetch the info field from the DB, for example if > you were using MySQL: > > // page header HTML here > <? > $row = mysql_fetch_assoc(mysql_query("SELECT info FROM table WHERE > eventname='{$_GET['eventname']}'")); > $info = $row['info']; > print(nl2br($info)); > ?> > // page footer HTML here > > Obviously you will need to change that to suit your site, and you may > want to add some security to the $_GET variable being passed to the > MySQL server to prevent attacks. Other than that, hope this helps. > > Regards > > Jasper Bryant-Greene > Cabbage Promotions > http://fatalnetwork.com/ > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > Eric Holmstrom wrote: > > > Hi there, > > > > I have this. > > Table Name = events > > Fields = eventname, date, info. Example > > > > ------------------------------- > > EVENTS > > ------------------------------- > > eventname | date | info > > ------------------------------ > > event1 | 0202 | info here > > ------------------------------ > > event2 | 0303 | info here 2 > > > > The problem is that the field "info" has alot of text in it. When I print > > this out in an array it makes a huge page due to each event having alot of > > information. So im trying to make it so it will display the results like > > this. > > > > event1 0202 infomation > > event2 0303 infomation > > > > I want the word "infomation" to be hyperlinked, so if you click on it, it > > will display the information in the "info" field. The problem is I don't > > know how to make a hyperlink that grabs the correct infomation for each > > event. > > > > Any help at all will be very grateful for. > > > > Thankyou > > > > Eric Holmstrom
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