lab-17.md

@@ -31,14 +31,11 @@ include_once "controllers/blog.php";
 We want the public homepage to show a list of all blog entries found in the database. We will display the title, the first
 150 characters of the entry_text, and a Read more link for each of the blog entries.
 
-* declare a new method in the Blog_Entry_Table class.
-* use PDO prepared statements for the sql
-* use the 'try/catch' stucture when executing the query
-* SUBSTRING() returns a part of a string, so to return only the first part of the entry text, your $sql will look like 
-* what does the 'AS intro' part of the statement do? satisfy yourself that you know (i.e. you remember the idea of an alias from term 1). 
-```
-"SELECT entry_id, title, SUBSTRING(entry_text, 1, 150) AS intro FROM blog_entry"
-```
+we can use the same getAllEntries method that we created for step 2.
+because of the way we wrote that, we can make use of the substring.
+SUBSTRING() returns a part of a string, so to return only the first part of the entry text.
+
+what does the 'AS intro' part of the statement do? satisfy yourself that you know (i.e. you remember the idea of an alias from term 1). 
 
 ## blog controller
 
@@ -147,4 +144,3 @@ i.e. inside the $entryClicked loop, you'll have
 ```
 
 check this works ok. 
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