RE: [PHP] preview string with strlen PHP (help)

2007-03-27 Thread Ford, Mike
On 24 March 2007 16:28, tedd wrote: 2007. 03. 23, péntek keltezéssel 17.30-kor Dwayne Heronimo ezt írta: YES this works thank nemeth: your welcome but please call me Zoltán ;) (my first name is Zoltán. in Hungary we write names the opposite order than anywhere else ;) so that's why

RE: [PHP] preview string with strlen PHP (help)

2007-03-27 Thread tedd
At 12:54 PM +0100 3/27/07, Ford, Mike wrote: On 24 March 2007 16:28, tedd wrote: 2007. 03. 23, péntek keltezéssel 17.30-kor Dwayne Heronimo ezt írta: YES this works thank nemeth: your welcome but please call me Zoltán ;) (my first name is Zoltán. in Hungary we write names the

Re: [PHP] preview string with strlen PHP (help)

2007-03-27 Thread tedd
At 6:57 PM +0200 3/27/07, Tijnema ! wrote: snip As us USA types are told, we all have to adapt to global conventions. :-) ... which presumably explains why the (US-owned) company my wife works for has email addresses in the form [EMAIL PROTECTED] Would you be equally confused by these?

Re: [PHP] preview string with strlen PHP (help)

2007-03-27 Thread Zoltán Németh
2007. 03. 27, kedd keltezéssel 18.57-kor Tijnema ! ezt írta: snip As us USA types are told, we all have to adapt to global conventions. :-) ... which presumably explains why the (US-owned) company my wife works for has email addresses in the form [EMAIL PROTECTED] Would you

Re: [PHP] preview string with strlen PHP (help)

2007-03-27 Thread Tijnema !
snip If a US company wants to use [EMAIL PROTECTED], then as we all know, management is always right -- so let's all change to that. Except for the companies that do it the other way -- ah, there I go being confused again. There's just no getting around it. Why can't we all just

[PHP] Re: OT: firstname-lastname fun - SOLVED :) (was: Re: [PHP] preview string with strlen PHP (help))

2007-03-26 Thread tedd
At 12:29 AM +0200 3/26/07, Zoltán Németh wrote: 2007. 03. 23, péntek keltezéssel 20.36-kor Tijnema ! ezt írta: On 3/23/07, Németh Zoltán [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 2007. 03. 23, péntek keltezéssel 17.30-kor Dwayne Heronimo ezt írta: YES this works thank nemeth: your welcome but please

[PHP] OT: firstname-lastname fun - SOLVED :) (was: Re: [PHP] preview string with strlen PHP (help))

2007-03-25 Thread Zoltán Németh
2007. 03. 23, péntek keltezéssel 20.36-kor Tijnema ! ezt írta: On 3/23/07, Németh Zoltán [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 2007. 03. 23, péntek keltezéssel 17.30-kor Dwayne Heronimo ezt írta: YES this works thank nemeth: your welcome but please call me Zoltán ;) (my first name is Zoltán. in

Re: [PHP] preview string with strlen PHP (help)

2007-03-24 Thread tedd
2007. 03. 23, péntek keltezéssel 17.30-kor Dwayne Heronimo ezt írta: YES this works thank nemeth: your welcome but please call me Zoltán ;) (my first name is Zoltán. in Hungary we write names the opposite order than anywhere else ;) so that's why my mailbox is set to display 'Németh Zoltán'

Re: [PHP] preview string with strlen PHP (help)

2007-03-23 Thread Tijnema !
On 3/23/07, Dwayne Heronimo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear All, I am very new to programming. I want to make a preview text that would display only a part of the text that is a text field in a database. //Begin Make preview string $minitxt = $row_show_cat['text']; $len = strlen($minitxt);

RE: [PHP] preview string with strlen PHP (help)

2007-03-23 Thread Flavien CHANTELOT
-Message d'origine- De : Tijnema ! [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Envoyé : vendredi 23 mars 2007 16:26 À : Dwayne Heronimo Cc : php-general@lists.php.net Objet : Re: [PHP] preview string with strlen PHP (help) On 3/23/07, Dwayne Heronimo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear All, I am very new

RE: [PHP] preview string with strlen PHP (help)

2007-03-23 Thread Edward Kay
-Original Message- From: Dwayne Heronimo [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Dear All, I am very new to programming. I want to make a preview text that would display only a part of the text that is a text field in a database. //Begin Make preview string $minitxt = $row_show_cat['text'];

Re: [PHP] preview string with strlen PHP (help)

2007-03-23 Thread Jochem Maas
Dwayne Heronimo wrote: Dear All, I am very new to programming. I want to make a preview text that would display only a part of the text that is a text field in a database. //Begin Make preview string $minitxt = $row_show_cat['text']; $len = strlen($minitxt); if ($len 235) {

Re: [PHP] preview string with strlen PHP (help)

2007-03-23 Thread Dwayne Heronimo
Dear all, hmm.. sorry the $previewstext thing was a typo in my mail. But yes it is working but it will only display the first record of the recordset. I have like a list for items with short text in a page and of course made a query to make the database variables available. Which where the

Re: [PHP] preview string with strlen PHP (help)

2007-03-23 Thread Németh Zoltán
2007. 03. 23, péntek keltezéssel 16.55-kor Dwayne Heronimo ezt írta: Dear all, hmm.. sorry the $previewstext thing was a typo in my mail. But yes it is working but it will only display the first record of the recordset. I have like a list for items with short text in a page and of

RE: [PHP] preview string with strlen PHP (help)

2007-03-23 Thread Flavien CHANTELOT
2007 16:55 À : php-general@lists.php.net Objet : Re: [PHP] preview string with strlen PHP (help) Dear all, hmm.. sorry the $previewstext thing was a typo in my mail. But yes it is working but it will only display the first record of the recordset. I have like a list for items with short text

Re: [PHP] preview string with strlen PHP (help)

2007-03-23 Thread Dwayne Heronimo
YES this works thank nemeth: ?php function previewString($showcatvar) { $minitxt = $showcatvar; $len = strlen($minitxt); if ($len 235) { $len = 235; } else { $len = $len; } $newstring = substr($minitxt,0,$len); $previewtext = $newstring; return $previewtext; } ? and to

Re: [PHP] preview string with strlen PHP (help)

2007-03-23 Thread Németh Zoltán
2007. 03. 23, péntek keltezéssel 17.30-kor Dwayne Heronimo ezt írta: YES this works thank nemeth: your welcome but please call me Zoltán ;) (my first name is Zoltán. in Hungary we write names the opposite order than anywhere else ;) so that's why my mailbox is set to display 'Németh Zoltán' but

Re: [PHP] preview string with strlen PHP (help)

2007-03-23 Thread Tijnema !
On 3/23/07, Németh Zoltán [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 2007. 03. 23, péntek keltezéssel 17.30-kor Dwayne Heronimo ezt írta: YES this works thank nemeth: your welcome but please call me Zoltán ;) (my first name is Zoltán. in Hungary we write names the opposite order than anywhere else ;) so that's

Re: [PHP] preview string with strlen PHP (help)

2007-03-23 Thread Richard Lynch
On Fri, March 23, 2007 10:18 am, Dwayne Heronimo wrote: function previewString($showcatvar) { $minitxt = $showcatvar; $len = strlen($minitxt); if ($len 235) { $len = 235; } else { $len = $len; } Take out this whole else block -- Assigning a variable to itself is just

Re: [PHP] preview string with strlen PHP (help)

2007-03-23 Thread Richard Lynch
You don't need a function to do something repeatedly. You need some kind of loop, such as 'while', 'for' or 'foreach' Try working through a PHP / MySQL tutorial, as it will cover this. On Fri, March 23, 2007 10:55 am, Dwayne Heronimo wrote: Dear all, hmm.. sorry the $previewstext thing was a