[RESOLVED] Separating Paragraph From Text Field

Tim_Silva

Hi,

I have a page that is currently echoing some news from a mySql database. It is fine as it is but I would like to go a step further and make it a little fancier.

As it stands, the code prints the title of the news piece in large bold letters (h1) and then prints the article itself in a regular font.

I would like to do now what most news websites do, that is, they usually print the title in large fonts, the first paragraph in bold, and the rest of the news in plain size font.

So the question is, how do I code the page so that it separates the first paragraph from the article and prints it in bold.

As always, thank you folks so much for your constant help.

Tim

This is my current code:

$hostname="someserver.net";
$username="someusername";
$password="somepassword";
$dbname="someusername";
$usertable="sometable";
$id=$_GET['id'];

mysql_connect($hostname,$username,$password) or die(mysql_error());
mysql_select_db("$dbname") or die(mysql_error());

$data = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM $usertable WHERE id=$id") 
or die(mysql_error()); 
$info = mysql_fetch_array( $data );

echo "<h1><p>" .$info['title']. "</h1></p>";
echo nl2br($info['content']);

banzaimonkey

You may be able to use this solution (I haven't tested it):

Before you echo the article content, echo ''; (or whatever other CSS tag you want to use to format the first paragraph).
Next (also before you echo the article content), use a preg_replace() to search for the first linebreak (example) and replace it with '\n'.

You can use divs or whatever instead, if you want, or even just use in the first part and in the second.

NogDog

First of all, this is invalid HTML:

echo "<h1><p>" .$info['title']. "</h1></p>";

I assume you want it to be:

echo "<h1>" .$info['title']. "</h1>";

As far as bolding the first paragraph, since you are inserting tags via the nl2br() function, perhaps you could do something like:

echo "<p>" .
preg_replace('/^.*(?=<br \/>)/iU', '<strong>\\0</strong>', nl2br($info['content'])) .
"</p>";

Tim_Silva

NogDog,

It worked like a charm. Thank you guys, you're the best.

Tim