Author Topic: requesting help with the news module. (Read 1917 times)

catolh · « **on:** January 16, 2009, 05:08:00 pm »

Hello there.

i am trying to get the contents in my news module printed on a web-page with the same formatting it has ingame.

I've tried forever but it just fails. I got the news printed on the page with this:

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<?PHP

$user_name = "<user>";
$password = "<pass>";
$database = "<db>";
$server = "<server>";
$db_handle = mysql_connect($server, $user_name, $password);
$db_found = mysql_select_db($database, $db_handle);

if ($db_found) {

$SQL = "SELECT * FROM news";
$result = mysql_query($SQL);

while ($db_field = mysql_fetch_assoc($result)) {
print $db_field['news'] . "<BR>";

}

mysql_close($db_handle);

}
else {
print "Database NOT Found ";
mysql_close($db_handle);
}

?>

But it was just unformatted.

Temar · « **Reply #1 on:** January 16, 2009, 07:13:20 pm »

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<?PHP

$user_name = "<user>";
$password = "<pass>";
$database = "<db>";
$server = "<server>";
$db_handle = mysql_connect($server, $user_name, $password);
$db_found = mysql_select_db($database, $db_handle);

if ($db_found) {

$SQL = "SELECT * FROM news";
$result = mysql_query($SQL);

$inside .= "<center><font color=#DDDD44>:::: News ::::</font></center><br>";
while ($db_field = mysql_fetch_assoc($result))
{
 $inside .= "<font color=#00DD44>On " . gmdate("F jS, Y H:i", $db_field['time']) . " GMT <font color=#D9D9D2>" . $db_field['name'] . "</font> Reported:<br>";
 $inside .= "<font color=#66AA66>" . stripslashes($db_field['news']);
 $inside .= "<br><br>";
}
echo $inside;
mysql_close($db_handle);

}
else {
print "Database NOT Found ";
mysql_close($db_handle);
}

?>

catolh · « **Reply #2 on:** January 16, 2009, 08:16:17 pm »

Omg, awesome! It worked like a charm

Thanks alot for the help!

One more thing though (i dont want to sound ungrateful or anything), is it possible to get it inverted? It shows first posted first, and newest news on the bottom. Is it possible to sort this in any way? or invert it somehow?

*edit*

Got it to work, just copied the code from news.php. But thanks again! awesome work!