Getting the whole story ...

[vikette]

Hi all, I'm somewhat new to PHP/programming in general and having a problem wrapping my head around what should be a simple concept.

On one page, I'm listing news stories from a MySQL database(basic coding below). When the user clicks a headline I want to print the whole story into a new page which uses a Dreamweaver template. Or perhaps an unformatted page which is "included" in a template? I'm very unclear on what should happen when the user clicks the headline.

<?php
include_once ("classes/WebNews_vo.php");
$dao = new WebNewsDAO();
$volist = $dao->findWhere("");

foreach($volist as $vo)
{

   //echo("$vo->http - $vo->tekst<br />");
//   print (date("dMy",$vo->dato) . ": " . $vo->headline . " <br>" . $vo->shorttext . "<br><br>");
   print (date("d m y",StrtoTime($vo->dato)) . ": <b>" . $vo->headline . "</b> <br>" . $vo->shorttext . " >>><br><br>");
}
?>	
 

[Yamakazi]

Ok this is pseudo code as u don't know your classes and there methods properties.

<?
foreach($volist as $vo)
{

   print (date("d m y",StrtoTime($vo->dato)) . ": <b><a href='longText.php?ID=".$vo->uniqueid."'> . $vo->headline . "</a></b> <br>" . $vo->shorttext . " >>><br><br>");
} 
?>

the on the next page you do

$oStory = new Story($ID);
echo $oStory->fullSroty();

So what you need to do is pass the primary key of the news item to the next page and and create an object of your story there. Then just call the right method to get the full story.

Good luck with it.

[vikette]

Thanks Yamakazi,

Think I can actually work with this ...