josh22x Posted August 4, 2008 Share Posted August 4, 2008 Ok, I am working on setting up a php blogging engine. I have got the individual posts set up so that only about 150 words are shown initially. How do I configuring the posts so that the title in a link to the full post? I know I could do this by making each individual title unique and then assigning a sql statement that says something like select...where title = 'whatever';. But how do I do this with php so that each title of each submitted post has a link that will automatically display the full post? how do I do this with php so that each title of each submitted post has a link that will automatically display the full post? (like the ones on the home page of PHP Freaks) I assume this would be possible with php and mysql, but would javaScript be necessary? Thanks in advance! -- If you could give me a short example of code to demonstrate a solution that would be great! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stephen Posted August 4, 2008 Share Posted August 4, 2008 Not sure what you mean. You mean like: "Well this is my new blogging system. It will automatically cut off wo... [READ MORE]" If you mean like that you can use substr on the front page and then just make a page something like: <?php //readme.php $_readid=$_GET["id"]; $_return=mysql_query("SELECT * FROM table WHERE id = '".$_readid."' LIMIT 1"); $_rows=mysql_fetch_array($_return); echo(nl2br($_rows["content"])); ?> "Well this is my new blogging system. It will automatically cut off wo... <a href='readme.php?id=1'>[READ MORE]</a>" Keep in mind there is no security on that, so you will want to add some. EDIT: This forum turns < /a> into [ /url] =\ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
josh22x Posted August 4, 2008 Author Share Posted August 4, 2008 Yes, that is exactly what i am trying to accomplish. I understand what you are saying, except how would I assign the id? I am assuming that would just be a temporary id assigned to each post, but that would not be something pulled from the database correct? Could you elaborate on how I would assign one of these ids to each post and then have it assigned to the Read More link? Thanks! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
josh22x Posted August 4, 2008 Author Share Posted August 4, 2008 Sorry, I just say you connect to the database for that... Basically, I do not know how to tell the link (when I click on it) what post to select? - via an id or whatever. Would I use the $_GET for this purpose. If so, how? Right now I am using get and it is returning nothing? Thanks again! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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