Hi
I am currently building a movie timeline and need some help with a repeat region issue.
The idea is that when someone submits a movie event - it gets positioned in the timeline accordingly. Obviously for events with the same year, I dont want repeat year headings.
I have added some if statements to remove duplicate year headings but its still not quite the result I am looking.
Currently, I have
2001------------------------------------------------2002--------------------------
movie event--movie event--movie event | movie event--movie event
What I need is
2001-------------2002
movie event movie event
movie event movie event
movie event movie event
hope that makes sense
I am a newbie so appreciate any advice
my code looks like this:
<?php require_once('Connections/timeline.php'); ?>
<?php
if (!function_exists("GetSQLValueString")) {
function GetSQLValueString($theValue, $theType, $theDefinedValue = "", $theNotDefinedValue = "")
{
$theValue = get_magic_quotes_gpc() ? stripslashes($theValue) : $theValue;
$theValue = function_exists("mysql_real_escape_string") ? mysql_real_escape_string($theValue) : mysql_escape_string($theValue);
switch ($theType) {
case "text":
$theValue = ($theValue != "") ? "'" . $theValue . "'" : "NULL";
break;
case "long":
case "int":
$theValue = ($theValue != "") ? intval($theValue) : "NULL";
break;
case "double":
$theValue = ($theValue != "") ? "'" . doubleval($theValue) . "'" : "NULL";
break;
case "date":
$theValue = ($theValue != "") ? "'" . $theValue . "'" : "NULL";
break;
case "defined":
$theValue = ($theValue != "") ? $theDefinedValue : $theNotDefinedValue;
break;
}
return $theValue;
}
}
mysql_select_db($database_timeline, $timeline);
$query_Recordset1 = "SELECT * FROM film2 ORDER BY `year` ASC";
$Recordset1 = mysql_query($query_Recordset1, $timeline) or die(mysql_error());
$row_Recordset1 = mysql_fetch_assoc($Recordset1);
$totalRows_Recordset1 = mysql_num_rows($Recordset1);
?>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
<title>My Movie Timeline</title>
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" media="screen, projection" href="includes/screen.css" />
<script src="includes/jquery-1.2.6.min.js" type="text/javascript" charset="utf-8"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" charset="utf-8">
$(function(){
$("#page-wrap").wrapInner("<table><tr>");
$(".event").wrap("<td>");
$(".intro").wrap("<td>");
});
function MM_openBrWindow(theURL,winName,features) { //v2.0
window.open(theURL,winName,features);
}
</script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="includes/smoothscroll.js"></script>
<script language="javascript"><!--//window.close();//--></script>
</head>
<body>
<a name="home"></a>
<div id="page-wrap">
<div class="intro"> <img src="images/logo.png" alt="My Movie Timeline" width="311" height="151" />
<p>Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Nam lobortis dignissim turpis. Pellentesque ultricies rhoncus laoreet. Cras tellus risus, sollicitudin sit amet pulvinar molestie, vulputate ac neque.</p>
<ul class="times">
<li><a href="#a-long-time-ago">A long time ago...</a></li>
<li><a href="#">0 - 100</a></li>
<li><a href="#">101 - 200</a></li>
<li><a href="#">201 - 300</a></li>
<li><a href="#">301 - 400</a></li>
<li><a href="#">401 - 500</a></li>
</ul>
<br />
<a href="index.php" onclick="MM_openBrWindow('submit.php','submit','width=500,height=500')">Submit</a> a film event entry | <a href="admin.php">Admin</a> </div>
<?php
// initialize variable to hold previous value
$previous = '';
?>
<?php do { ?>
<div class="event"> <a name="a-long-time-ago"></a>
<h1>
<?php
// display field if it doesn't match previous value
if ($row_Recordset1['year'] != $previous) {
echo $row_Recordset1['year'];
} else {
// otherwise, insert a non-breaking space
echo ' ';
}
// set $previous to current value for next time
$previous = $row_Recordset1['year'];
?>
</h1>
<div class="triangle-isosceles top">
<h2><?php echo $row_Recordset1['movie']; ?></h2>
<h3><a href="*"><?php echo $row_Recordset1['name']; ?></a></h3>
</div>
</div>
<?php } while ($row_Recordset1 = mysql_fetch_assoc($Recordset1)); ?>
</div>
<?php
mysql_free_result($Recordset1);
?>
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Regards
Jeff
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