need some help with making a certain link

Redox

i just started with my own news-script, and got kinda stuck on a little problem. as u can see here http://www.wavemasterz.nl/todaly/headline.php it works a little allready. But as u can see, the script makes a seperate link to view the whole article. Here is my problem, i dont want a seperate link, i want the headline itself to be the link.

U got any tips hints or whatever to help me out?

(its pretty basic, i know, just started with php)
the script i wrote:

<?php
include "db.php" ;
while($news = mysql_fetch_array($news_result)) {
// time transformation
$ts = $news['news_datetime'];
$unixtime = mktime(substr($ts, 11, 12), substr($ts, 14, 15), substr($ts, 17, 18), substr($ts, 5, 6), substr($ts, 8, 9), substr($ts, 0, 4));
?>
<table width="400" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" allign="center">
<tr>
<td>
<span class="kleiner"><?php echo date("j-n H:i", $unixtime) ?><?php echo " ";

// below is the line where the script now makes a seperate link
// i want this to be fixed 🙂

$news['news_header'] = substr($news['news_header'], 0, 180) . " ...<a href=news2.php?news_ID=" . $news['news_ID'] . ">read more</a>"; echo $news['news_header'] ?>

// this part above 😉

</span>
</td></tr></table>
<?php
}
mysql_close();
?>

Duey

why would u want to work on your own news script when theres a 181 @ hotscripts.com and theres such a great one called NewsHOWLER 🙂
http://newshowler.sourceforge.net copy my code i dont care

Redox

well thats the easy boring way 😉 i wont learn anything if i'll just keep on copying it all...

problem is that it is going to be used on a profit-based website, so most of the developers of these scripts wants to share in the profits....

AND I JUST WANNA LEARN IT 😃

and i almost forgot, it needs to show a list of headlines and i still havent found a script that does that.... (so i still need to be able to make such a link as described in the first post in this topic)

Duey

you are going to sell a news script 😐 bad idea! lots of free ones 🙂

Redox

lol no u missed that one 😉

i'm not gonna sell scripts (i'm way to n00b for that) with the site were making, were gonna make some money..... like advertising and shit.

most scripts @ hotscripts.com are for non-profit use only.... thats why i started making my own 😃

Duey

uhh no NewsHOWLER distributes for free so does fusion. (fusion is the file based version of newshowler)

Redox

ok 🙂

but now i still need to know how to fix that * ** * link 😃

ah well... its time to sleep anyway (03:00) ....

Duey

<?php
include "db.php" ;
while($news = mysql_fetch_array($news_result)) {
// time transformation
$ts = $news['news_datetime'];
$unixtime = mktime(substr($ts, 11, 12), substr($ts, 14, 15), substr($ts, 17, 18), substr($ts, 5, 6), substr($ts, 8, 9), substr($ts, 0, 4));
?>
<table width="400" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" allign="center">
<tr>
<td>
<span class="kleiner"><?php echo date("j-n H:i", $unixtime) ?><?php echo " ";

// below is the line where the script now makes a seperate link
// i want this to be fixed
$news_link = substr($news['news_header'], 0, 180)
$news['news_header'] = "<a href=news2.php?news_ID=" . $news['news_ID'] . ">".$news_link."</a>"; 

echo $news['news_header'] ;
?>

// this part above

</span>
</td></tr></table>
<?php
}
mysql_close();
?>