[nascent]

I am one step *before* clueless newbie, so I hope you'll bear with me <smile>.

In the output, I need to be able to add punctuation after the information in the Duration field if it contains an entry. I cannot figure out how to do that.

I need the output to read like this:

"blah blah blah A great addition to the repertoire. 7 minutes. Ref: 114a9"

but it appears like this:
"blah blah blah A great addition to the repertoire. 7 minutes Ref: 114a9"

This is the code I have thus far:

<?php
include("connectData.inc");
$type="{$_GET['subType']}";
$query = "SELECT * FROM blItem WHERE blSubType='$type'";
echo "<table cellspacing='0' border='0' cellpadding='0'
width='100%'>";
$result = mysql_query($query) or die ("Error: $query");
while ($row = mysql_fetch_array($result)) {
extract($row);
echo "<tr>\n";
echo "<td>{$Title} {$Composer} {$bpSolo} {$Desc} {$Duration} Ref: {$Id}</td>\n";
echo "<td>{$grade}</td>\n";
echo "<td>{$price}</td>\n";
} // end while
echo "</table>\n";
$var = NULL;
?>

Any help gratefully accepted. <smiles>

nascent

[Amadeus]

Change

 echo "<td>{$Title} {$Composer} {$bpSolo} {$Desc} {$Duration} Ref: {$Id}</td>\n";

to

 echo "<td>{$Title} {$Composer} {$bpSolo} {$Desc} {$Duration}. Ref: {$Id}</td>\n";

or, to make it conditional on the contents of the duration field

echo "<td>{$Title} {$Composer} {$bpSolo} {$Desc} {$Duration}\n";
if($Duration!="")
   echo ".";
echo "Ref: {$Id}</td>\n";

[nascent]

Amadeus,

My sincere thanks to you. It was exactly what I needed. <smiles>

nascent

[Amadeus]

No problem at all...welcome to dreamincode. Please feel free to ask any questions you wish.