Linking to specific blog posts

Hi Damon,

I have created a blog in section editor and within that blog have created a list field with all the Authors names. So when they add a new entry they just click on the drop down list and pick their name.


<?php header('Content-type: text/html; charset=utf-8'); ?>
<?php

require_once "/home/nzph/public_html/cmsAdmin/lib/viewer_functions.php";

list($ridersblogRecords, $ridersblogMetaData) = getRecords(array(
'tableName' => 'ridersblog',
'perPage' => '7',
));

?>
<?php
function maxWords($textOrHtml, $maxWords) {
$text = strip_tags($textOrHtml);
$words = preg_split("/\s+/", $text, $maxWords+1);
if (count($words) > $maxWords) { unset($words[$maxWords]); }
$output = join(' ', $words);

return $output;
}
?>

<!-- blog left column -->
<div id="LC_blog">

<!-- STEP2: Display Records (Paste this where you want your records to be listed) -->
<h1>Rider's Blog</h1>
<?php foreach ($ridersblogRecords as $record): ?>
<p span class="headline_blog"><a href="<?php echo $record['_link'] ?>"><?php echo $record['title'] ?></a></span>
<p><?php echo date("D, M jS, Y g:i:s a", strtotime($record['date'])) ?></p>
<p><?php echo $record['author'] ?></p>

<!-- For date formatting codes see: http://www.php.net/date -->
<p><?php echo maxWords($record['content'], 100); ?> . . . <a href="<?php echo $record['_link'] ?>">Read More</a></p>

<br/>


<hr size="1" noshade="noshade"/>
<?php endforeach; ?>

<?php if ($ridersblogMetaData['invalidPageNum']): ?>
Results page '<?php echo $ridersblogMetaData['page']?>' not found, <a href="<?php echo $ridersblogMetaData['firstPageLink'] ?>">start over &gt;&gt;</a>.<br/><br/>
<?php elseif (!$ridersblogRecords): ?>
No records were found!<br/><br/>
<?php endif ?>
<!-- /STEP2: Display Records -->


<!-- STEP3: Display Page Links (Paste anywhere below "Load Record List") -->
<?php if ($ridersblogMetaData['prevPage']): ?>
<a href="<?php echo $ridersblogMetaData['prevPageLink'] ?>">&lt;&lt; prev</a>
<?php else: ?>
&lt;&lt; prev
<?php endif ?>

- page <?php echo $ridersblogMetaData['page'] ?> of <?php echo $ridersblogMetaData['totalPages'] ?> -

<?php if ($ridersblogMetaData['nextPage']): ?>
<a href="<?php echo $ridersblogMetaData['nextPageLink'] ?>">next &gt;&gt;</a>
<?php else: ?>
next &gt;&gt;
<?php endif ?>
<!-- /STEP3: Display Page Links -->
</div>
<!-- end blog left column -->

<!-- blog right column -->
<div id="RC_blog">
<p span class="rightcol_title">AUTHORS</span>
<p>View blogs by Author
<a href="#">Author 1</a><br />
<a href="#">Author 2</a><br />
<a href="#">Author 3</a><br />
<a href="#">Author 4</a><br />
</p>

</div>
<!-- end blog right column -->

You could change this code:
<a href="#">Author 1</a><br />
<a href="#">Author 2</a><br />
<a href="#">Author 3</a><br />
<a href="#">Author 4</a><br />
To this:
<a href="./blog.php?author=Author 1">Author 1</a><br />
<a href="./blog.php?author=Author 2">Author 2</a><br />
<a href="./blog.php?author=Author 3">Author 3</a><br />
<a href="./blog.php?author=Author 4">Author 4</a><br />
This would display only the blog post by the author you linked from.

You could also use this on the page to show the name of the author that was in the query string:
<?php echo @$_GET["author"]; ?>

Give that a try and let me know how you make out.

Thanks Damon, will have a go and get back to you if I get stuck.