Posted by Jackson Linux on 03/08/05 19:05

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 on line 57
>
> In this line, PHP is somehow encountering a T_NUMBER (a number) where
> it
> *expects* to see something else.
>
> Like a comma.
>
> Look between your 0 and 200 very carefully.
>


Thanks for taking the time. I had suspected that earlier, but when I
put it in all sorts of OTHER stuff happened.

Then I saw your post and tried again. I saw that I had made another
mistake later on. So you've solved that part - thanks!.

Except....Except it doesn't pull the content from the db and substr it
to 200 characters. It pulls the id number and the title no problem, and
I am sure that $article['content'] points to the right place (or at
least it's named right) but it's just not getting the content:

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, 400); // 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
$table_of_contents[] = "<li><a
href='{$_SERVER['PHP_SELF']}?
a={$article_id}'}&title='{$title}'>{$article['title']}</a><br/
>$content<br /><a
href='{$_SERVER['PHP_SELF']}?a={$article['article_id']}'
title='{$article['title']}'> ... [Read article]</a></li></li>";
}
}

echo "
 </ul>";

Thanks in advance. . .

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