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Jinn · 10-04-2006, 11:52 AM

Has anyone ever written a script to automatically give a brief description of the document? One of the sites I'm working on is a newspaper, and I have to manually grab the headline and first 5 or 6 lines and use that as the "teaser." Would there be any way to automate this? I don't think I could guarantee that every article would have the same number of lines between headline and body text.

Similarly, I use a PHP script to insert an article into the center div in my page. Unfortunately, if the page is really long, when it inserts the article it doesn't jump back to the top of the page. I can't really use #id tags, because the base document never changes - just one div is re-filled.

Any suggestions?

10-04-2006, 11:52 AM	#1 (permalink)
Jinn Lover - Protector - Teacher Join Date: May 2005	PHP/Perl/Web Has anyone ever written a script to automatically give a brief description of the document? One of the sites I'm working on is a newspaper, and I have to manually grab the headline and first 5 or 6 lines and use that as the "teaser." Would there be any way to automate this? I don't think I could guarantee that every article would have the same number of lines between headline and body text. Similarly, I use a PHP script to insert an article into the center div in my page. Unfortunately, if the page is really long, when it inserts the article it doesn't jump back to the top of the page. I can't really use #id tags, because the base document never changes - just one div is re-filled. Any suggestions? __________________ If you struggle with something your entire life, try harder. Awareness without action is worthless, and failure is not an accident.