[SOLVED] News Section Help

[flyersun]

Hi

 

I'm trying to create a news section for a website.. I've hit a problem though. On the main news page I want only the first part of the news item to be shown and then a link to the full story.

 

Does anyone know how I can achieve this?

 

(I'm not exactly a wiz with this stuff)

 

Thanks for any help!

 

 

[adam291086]

yes it is possible

 

Here is how to get a caption and push you in the right direction

 

<?php
include '../database/config.php';
$result = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM `News` ORDER BY `news_id` DESC Limit 5") or die(mysql_error());
while($row = mysql_fetch_array($result))
{
$id = $row['news_id'];
$titlenews = $row['News_title'];
$news = $row['News'];
$caption = substr($news, 0, 50).".....";
?>

[Cazrin]

Do what adam said to create the shortened version of the news post.  As for the link to the rest of the news, create another file which will take the id of the news posts from the URL ($_GET['id'] for example) and then display the news post based on that id.

 

There's another shove in the right direction