Old MSN Messenger Chats

Cindy Glunt - 2003-10-01

Cindy says:
hi david

David Cole says:
hey! how's it going?

Cindy says:
great

David Cole says:
right on. getting moved in?

Cindy says:
things are settling down a little bit here, i mean we're getting more settled so i have a little more time now, if you want to get started on the ldswebmasters site

Cindy says:
sort of, slowly

David Cole says:
yeah. we've been in our house for 7 months now and it'll still be awhile before we get our stuff where we want it.

David Cole says:
i'm about ready to get back to lds webmasters. that contract job for the forestry consultant is finally coming to a close.

David Cole says:
www.hendersonandmajor.com

Cindy says:
we have an unfinished basement, that will probably not be done until christmmas so i have no place to finish unpacking for a while

Cindy says:
okay sounds good, just let me know

David Cole says:
i'll take a look at it again this weekend a bit to get a feel for where we left off. i keep thinking about ideas for the site. i'm excited to get back to it.

Cindy says:
i have that email with all the changes that need to be made, so i'll get that done for now

Cindy says:
that'll probably keep me busy for a hwile

David Cole says:
ok. great.

Cindy says:
do you have a minute?

Cindy says:
i hate to ask cause i know your at work

David Cole says:
yeah, i do.

Cindy says:
okay, i've been trying to add a link to my blog on to my main family page...

Cindy says:
what i want to do is have the most recent entry fit within the table, and then link to the rest of the entry

Cindy says:
http://cindy.gluntfamily.org/cindy.php

Cindy says:
there's the blog

Cindy says:
http://www.gluntfamily.org

Cindy says:
the table portion that says what's new is where i want to include it

David Cole says:
do you want the whole first entry or just enough to fit into that table?

Cindy says:
enough to fit maybe a little bit taller but within that cell, and then the rest viewable by clicking read more

David Cole says:
so you need a way to get a substring of the whole entry? in php?

Cindy says:
yes

Cindy says:
is that undoable? or too time consuming?

David Cole says:
do you want it rounded to the nearest word? or sentence?

David Cole says:
no, it won't take but a few minutes. no big deal.

David Cole says:
are you able to get the whole entry as a string?

Cindy says:
um i don't understand the last question

David Cole says:
ok. how is the blog stored? in a database, text file, or just the html file?

Cindy says:
nearest sentence

Cindy says:
let me look

David Cole says:
i meant php file, not html.

Cindy says:
php i'm pretty sure, cause i had to change permissions on a bunch of files so it could write to it

Cindy says:
and i don't think i set up a database...

David Cole says:
how do you post to the blog?

Cindy says:
by going to a page logging in, and typing in my entry on the page then clicking blog this

David Cole says:
is it blogger?

Cindy says:
b2

David Cole says:
ok. for the current one, where do you want the text to start and end, as an example?

Cindy says:
the whole blog is all within my site

David Cole says:
With 'Boy, you've got your hands full!' or 'Some days it seems like there is...'

David Cole says:
probably ending with 'beforehand.'?

Cindy says:
um not the title but probably the first entire sentence... would that work?

David Cole says:
sure. just the first entire sentence or the first two? having it round to the nearest sentence will probably vary the length between entries quite a bit.

Cindy says:
hmmm

Cindy says:
first two i think

David Cole says:
i'll write something that'll give you the first two and we can see how that works.

Cindy says:
ok, i can change it if it doesn't work

David Cole says:
right. ok, give me a few minutes.

Cindy says:
thank you so much! geez i need to learn this stuff

David Cole says:
'); $firstsentenceend = strpos($wholefile, '. ', $start); $end = strpos($wholefile, '. ', $firstsentenceend + 1); $snippet = substr($wholefile, $start, $end -

David Cole says:
$start + 1); echo $snippet; ?>

David Cole says:
whoops. messenger truncated it.

Cindy says:
np

Cindy says:
you are awesome!

Cindy says:
the text is freaking out, but i can fix that... oh it's wonderful! thank you thank you!

David Cole says:
nah. if you put the filesystem path to your blog file it may speed it up a bit, but then it may not be able to find the substring.

David Cole says:
you're quite welcome. glad to help out. this stuff is easy for me. and fun.

Cindy says:
well, i'm your graphics girl, that stuff is easy for me and fun too

David Cole says:
oh, i left the div in there. hold on, i'll fix that.

David Cole says:
right on.

Cindy says:
thanks

David Cole says:
change the line that says:


David Cole says:
$start = strpos($wholefile, '