RE: [PHP] Newbie Question re substr

2005-03-08 Thread Kim Madsen
From: Jackson Linux [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 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)) {

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2005-03-08 Thread Jackson Linux
Thanks, Kim! Still having difficulties though.. On 8 Mar 2005, at 03:29, Kim Madsen wrote: From: Jackson Linux [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 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;

Re: [PHP] Newbie Question re substr

2005-03-08 Thread Jackson Linux
On 8 Mar 2005, at 11:40, Richard Lynch wrote: 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

[PHP] Re [PHP] Newbie Question re substr: Solved

2005-03-08 Thread Jackson Linux
Sorry if this posts twice. Thanks everyone for the help. The missing comma was the problem with the display; the missing specification of the column at the start of the sql query was the problem with getting the data from the column. Again, thanks all who replied for the fast and excellent

Re: [PHP] Newbie Question re substr

2005-03-08 Thread Richard Lynch
Jackson Linux wrote: On 8 Mar 2005, at 11:40, Richard Lynch wrote: 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

[PHP] Newbie Question re substr

2005-03-07 Thread Jackson Linux
Hi, I'm really new and getting lots of help but need some assistance. I'm running a script which gets specific articles from a database if they're entered in the URL after the ? . For instance if someone asks for www.foo.com/index.htm?a=1234 then the script would look for an database entry with

Re: [PHP] Newbie Question re substr

2005-03-07 Thread Zareef Ahmed
On Mon, 7 Mar 2005 22:23:19 -0500, Jackson Linux [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I'm really new and getting lots of help but need some assistance. I'm running a script which gets specific articles from a database if they're entered in the URL after the ? . For instance if someone asks for

Re: [PHP] Newbie Question re substr

2005-03-07 Thread Jackson Linux
Zareef, Almost On 7 Mar 2005, at 23:52, Zareef Ahmed wrote: From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:Re: [PHP] Newbie Question re substr Date: 7 March 2005 23:52:15 GMT-05:00 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: php-general@lists.php.net