Re: [PHP-DB] Selecting number of news items on frontpage

2001-03-01 Thread JJeffman
-Mensagem Original- De: Matthew Cothier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Para: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Enviada em: quarta-feira, 28 de fevereiro de 2001 13:13 Assunto: [PHP-DB] Selecting number of news items on frontpage > I have a homepage which has a news headline system. Bascially via form

Re: [PHP-DB] Selecting number of news items on frontpage

2001-02-28 Thread Beau Lebens
>You could then issue as select statement like " select * from articles >limit 7 order by nArticleKey descending" (maybe it should be "top" >instead of "limit", check your MySLQ syntax) and feed those to the front page. select * from articles order by nArticleKey desc limit 7 although a bette

Re: [PHP-DB] Selecting number of news items on frontpage

2001-02-28 Thread Miles Thompson
goes, I will go have a look at the page. Regards - Miles At 10:28 PM 2/28/01 +, Matthew Cothier wrote: >>From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Miles Thompson) >>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED],[EMAIL PROTECTED] >>Subject: Re: [PHP-DB] Selecting number of news items on frontpage >>Date:

Re: [PHP-DB] Selecting number of news items on frontpage

2001-02-28 Thread Matthew Cothier
>From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Miles Thompson) >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED],[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: Re: [PHP-DB] Selecting number of news items on frontpage >Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2001 17:06:07 -0400 > >Matthew, > >Do you want to be told how, or want to read an interesti

Re: [PHP-DB] Selecting number of news items on frontpage

2001-02-28 Thread Miles Thompson
Matthew, Do you want to be told how, or want to read an interesting article on just this, including PHP script to build your archives. It's one of the early PHP tutorials -- try a search on "php movie database". I adapted code from that for my own archive, although I run a shell script, logg

Re: [PHP-DB] Selecting number of news items on frontpage

2001-02-28 Thread Bill Zeller
Hey, If you're using Mysql to store the items, you could use the Limit statement to limit the number of items displayed. If you're using the file system it'd probably be a little more difficult, but not impossible. For example, if the news items were stored in a text file with one entry per line,

[PHP-DB] Selecting number of news items on frontpage

2001-02-28 Thread Matthew Cothier
I have a homepage which has a news headline system. Bascially via form the admin of the site can submit news which appears on the front page, the only problem is the news just keeps coming and I have a front page with too many headlines on. How can I make it so that say 7 articles appear on th