| Re: Dynamic Links (MySQL/PHP) [message #179224 is a reply to message #179222] |
Tue, 25 September 2012 18:17   |
tom.rankin51
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Both sections of code contain 'mysql_select_db() - should it be included a third time?
On Tuesday, September 25, 2012 7:10:02 PM UTC+1, Luuk wrote:
> On 25-09-2012 19:27, tom(dot)rankin51(at)googlemail(dot)com wrote:
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>> Hello
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>> I have a very basic knowledge of PHP and MySQL and sought help from a friend who initially was someone I can turn to but now can't provide me with any help (!) ...and so to Google Groups!
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>> I am trying to display preview text on a webpage and then after clicking a link it will take you to the full item. It must be quite a simple thing to do, however, I am getting a completely blank page. I get no errors, and I have no syntax errors that I can see so I'm struggling to see what I have done wrongly.
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>> My code on the main page is :
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>> <?
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>> include("php/dbinfo.inc.php");
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>> mysql_connect($hostname,$username,$password);
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>> @mysql_select_db($database) or die( "Unable to select database");
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>> $mydate=date("Y-m-d",strtotime("-2 weeks"));
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>> $news_query=mysql_query("SELECT id, postdate, title, SUBSTRING_INDEX(body,' ',20) as preview_text, body FROM NewsContent WHERE postdate > '$mydate' ORDER BY postdate DESC");
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>> mysql_close();
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>> ?>
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>> <div>
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>> <ol>
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>> <!-- START OF PHP SCRIPT (NEWS) -->
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>> <?
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>> while($r=mysql_fetch_assoc($news_query)) {
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>> echo '<li id="'.$r["id"].'">';
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>> echo '<h2 class="body-headline">';
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>> echo $r["title"];
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>> echo '</h2>';
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>> echo '<h3 class="date-heading">';
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>> echo date("d-M-Y",strtotime($r["postdate"]));
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>> echo '</h3>';
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>> echo nl2br ($r["preview_text"]);
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>> echo '...<a class="fancybox fancybox.ajax" href="news.php?id='.$r["id"].'">show more</a>';
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>> echo '</li><hr />';
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>> } ?>
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>> <!-- END OF PHP SCRIPT (NEWS) -->
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>> </ol>
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>> </div>
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>> Note that I'm using a fancybox script, but this happens without using that script also.
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>> In my news item page I have done the following:
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>> <?
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>> include("php/dbinfo.inc.php");
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>> mysql_connect($hostname,$username,$password);
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>> @mysql_select_db($database) or die( "Unable to select database");
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>> $id = $_GET['id'];
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>> $sql = "SELECT id, postdate, title, body FROM NewsContent WHERE id = '$id'";
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>> $news_query=mysql_query($sql);
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>> IF ($news_query){
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>> $r = mysql_fetch_row($news_query);
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>> $title = $r["title"];
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>> $body = $r["body"];
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>> }
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>> mysql_close();
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>> ?>
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>> <div>
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>> <h2>
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>> <?
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>> echo $r["title"];
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>> ?>
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>> </h2>
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>> <div class="modal-nav-links">
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>> <p><?php echo $r["body"] ?></p>
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>> <!-- <div style="clear: both;"></div> -->
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>> </div>
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>> </div>
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>> I was under the impression that this would work, but no dice. Can someone with a bit of experience give me an idea of what I'm doing incorrectly?
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>> Thanks in advance
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>> Tom
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> There is a missing 'mysql_select_db()'
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> http://php.net/manual/en/function.mysql-select-db.php
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