rough outline of what you would need to do.....
this is pseudocode.. I'm too tired to write correct php :)
$is_first=true;
whlie(get next result entry) {
if($is_first) {
$last-date=date of this entry;
$this-date=date of this entry;
$is_first=false;
}
if($this-date==$last-date) {
just put the article after the current one
} else {
start a new section, displaying date etc
}
$last-date=$this-date;
}
----- Original Message -----
From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, September 12, 2001 5:24 PM
Subject: [PHP] displaing news
Hey all!
I have a slight problem I was hoping you could help me with. I wrote earlier
but no response (so one last try). I'm writing a little news script for my
site, and well here is the scenario:
The SHORT:
I have news,headline,author,date,time,etc. all in a table in a mysql db,
that I use mysql_fetch_array to pull out of the db and display on a page. It
shows everything fine, but I was wondering, if there is more than one news
entry per day, how can I display 1 date above the news entries for that day.
(Instead of a seperate date for each news entry).
The LONG:
I have 2 tables in a mysql database, one holds author information (name,
email, password, etc.)
The other table holds the news that they submit (news, date, time, headline,
etc.)
Now I am trying to display the news on a page, ordered of course by date (or
id in this case) and well i'm using the code below.
<?php
$db = mysql_pconnect("localhost");
mysql_select_db("news",$db);
$result1 = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM news,authors ORDER BY `id` DESC",$db);
while($myrow=mysql_fetch_array($result1))
{
echo "<table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0><tr><td><img
src=images/r13.gif></td><td background=images/r14.gif
width=100%><p><font size=2 face=verdana color=white><strong>" .
$myrow["headline"] . "</strong></FONT>
<font size=1 face=verdana color=white><br>Posted by <A HREF=mailto:"; .
$myrow["email"] . ">" .
$myrow["author"] . "</A> at " . $myrow["time"] . $myrow["$tod"] .
"</FONT></td><td><img
src=images/r15.gif></td></tr></table><br><FONT COLOR=white SIZE=2
FACE=verdana>" . $myrow["news"] .
"<br><br>";
}
?>
So the results would look something like:
$Headline
Posted by $author at $time
$news
and it would of course just repeat, for however many entries there is.
Now the problem:
If I enter 4 news posts a day, I want to show 1 date above all the news
posts. (Instead of 1 date next to each news post) Any idea how I can do this
(In easy to understand lingo/code please)?
Thanks!
Nate
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