Blog Read More Link

Hello, How can I add a "read more" button after abt 200 characters in my blog articles ? So the articles are displayed from database in a repeated table and then the read more should go to full article. (Standard blog thing). Thanks in advance.

this is a standard master detail page set.

the master page is a listing of the blog articles, the listing contains a link to the details page that passes the ID as a querystring. the details page shows the full blog by querying the database using the ID in the URL.

there are many tutorial on the web for creating a master detail page set, here is one i found through google:

watch?v=fMeYvddyUGs


you could also use the Data Bride Data Assist pages wizard to crate the results and details pages for you.

very helpful video, but I still have no idea how to add the read more link after a certain amt of characters. Can you help further?

the view more link passes the record ID as a URL variable to the detail page.

on the detail page, you create a recordset and filter the ID column using the URL variable to return the record that coresponds to the link.


You can use the data assist wizard to create a results and details page set rather than create them manually.

I want the read more link in the master page where all the articles are listed. I get the records from the db but the full article shows. I only want the first few lined to show and then the read more link. Thanks.

on the results page, use substr() to shorten the length to the desired number of characters, for example, this would return the first 150 characters:

<?php echo substr(($row_YourRecordset['your_db_column']),0,150); ?>

you can also use this code after it to show ellipses if the string is longer:

<?php if(strlen($row_YourRecordset['your_db_column']) > 150) echo "... "; ?>

Thanks very much Jason.