Do While Looks strange - Printing w/o Data on first run & Another Anomaly

Question

OK, what is happening is that I have the following code which
prints out the
title in an h3, then prints out a link with "full story" text
in it.
My problem is that I am getting a blank link at the beginning
of this block.
<?php do { ?>
<h3><?php echo $row_rsNews['newsTitle'];
?></h3>
<a href="news.php?cid=<?php echo
$row_rsNews['newsID']; ?>">Full
Story</a><br />
<?php } while ($row_rsNews = mysql_fetch_assoc($rsNews));
?>
Outputs:
<h3></h3>
<a href="news.php?cid=">Full Story</a><br>
<h3>Youth Education Program</h3>
<a href="news.php?cid=5">Full Story</a><br>
<h3>Katy Trail Biking Trip</h3>
<a href="news.php?cid=15">Full
Story</a><br>
<h3>Choir Chili Supper Plans</h3>
<a href="news.php?cid=9">Full Story</a><br>
1. Notice that my first run of things are not showing
correctly
2. And this is the weird one - look at how my <br />
tags have changed to
<br>.
Any ideas? I'm about lost on this one.
TIA,
Jon Parkhurst
PriivaWeb
http://priiva.net.

Answer 1

OK, here is my complete code block for my news section. This
page is goign
to be redone, but I would still like to understand why it's
not working -
why I'm not correctly resetting a recordset.
Recordset rsArticle is only populated if gID is sent in the
url
Here we see that the rsArticle to be displayed is only shown
if there is a
gID:
<?php if ($totalRows_rsArticle > 0) { // Show if
recordset not empty
?>
<h2><?php echo $row_rsArticle['newsTitle'];
?></h2>
<p><?php echo $row_rsArticle['newsAuthor'];
?><br />
<?php echo $row_rsArticle['newsDateEdited'];
?></p>
<?php $mc_pic = $row_rsArticle['newsPicture'];
if ($mc_pic != "") { ?>
<img class="newsimg"
src="app/app_get_img.php?image_path=<?php
echo $mc_pic?>&sz=article" />
<?php }
echo $row_rsArticle['newsContent']; ?></p>
<?php } // Show if recordset not empty ?>
And here is the code to show if there is no gID:
<?php if ($totalRows_rsArticle == 0) { // Show if
recordset empty ?>
Here is the first DoWhile statement, to repeat all *other*
records. the
rsNews Recordset is built using get all articles <>
gID. If no gID, it
fetches them all for a full listing, if gID, then it fetches
only the
articles NOT displayed by rsArticle. Cool so far, right?
<?php do { ?>
<a class="pbutton" href="news.php?cid=<?php echo
$row_rsNews['newsID']; ?>">Full Story ...</a>
<h3><?php echo $row_rsNews['newsTitle'];
?></h3>
<?php echo $row_rsNews['newsShortDesc']; ?>
<?php
} while ($row_rsNews = mysql_fetch_assoc($rsNews));
Now here, I'm *attempting* to reset rsNews to the first
record in the
recordset, so that I can reuse the recordset for another part
of the page.
Again, on this page it's not really necessary, but I have
other areas of the
site that this is crucial for me to be able to implement.
mysql_data_seek($rsNews, 0);
?>
Then it closes out the final If recordset is empty
<?php } // Show if recordset empty ?>
The reason I'd rather do this than just create another
recordset is mostly
simplicity. If I'm going to create another recordset, then I
see little
value in the recordsets - I can just set string variables and
re-send a SQL
statement. However, that method leaves the SQL as non DW
accessible.
Unless I'm missing something?
Thanks for taking a look, if you get the chance. If you
don't, I'm goign to
keep trying to figure out a way I can do this.
TIA,
Jon