RE: [PHP] Half way

> -----Original Message----- > From: Jochem Maas [mailto:jochem@iamjochem.com] > Sent: Wednesday, October 22, 2008 10:27 AM > To: php_list@FishNet.co.uk > Cc: PHP General > Subject: Re: [PHP] Half way > > Ian schreef: > > On 22 Oct 2008 at 6:34, Ron Piggott wrote: > > > >> I am tweaking a blog application I have programmed. I am trying to > >> display a Google ad half through the blog entry, at the first > available > >> <br />. > >> > >> The code I use so far is: > >> > >> $half_way = strlen( nl2br(stripslashes($entry))) /2 ; > >> $ad_position = strpos ( nl2br(stripslashes($entry)) , "<br />" , > >> $half_way ); > >> echo substr( nl2br(stripslashes($entry)) , 0, $ad_position); > >> > >> Is there a way to modify my strpos syntax to check and see if the > >> nearest <br /> is before the half way mark? > >> > >> What is tending to happen is the ad is being placed 5/7ths of the > way > >> through the blog entry because of the length of the paragraph the > half > >> way character falls in. Visually it doesn't look balanced. I would > >> prefer the ad display 4/7th of the way through the blog entry in > those > >> situations. > >> > >> Thanks for helping me. > > > > Hi, > > > > Disclaimer: Without seeing the actual blog entry this is all guess > work! > > > > Your code above seems to find the half way point in the raw text. > This is all very well if > > you do not have paragraphs or other formatting code that can move > text around once > > displayed. > > > > To overcome this you will have to try and detect the number of > paragraphs (or formatting > > code) before the half way point and after it and try and move the > Google Ad entry to > > accommodate this. > > > > This will involve trial and error to determine an algorithm that best > matches your blog > > entries. > > > > Or you could go down the easy route and add some sort of marker > (database entry or a > > tag of some sort) to each blog which indicates were the Google ads > should go. > > yeah, hack the WYSWYG editor to add an extra button that inserts a > marker (e.g. specific > HTML comment) which you can replace ... WordPress has a tinyMCE hack > that does something > like this although in that case it's used to insert markers that allow > the content to > be split into multiple pages. > > > Personally I prefer the later options as its probably easier ;) > > personally I prefer the solution where there is no ad shown at all. If it's blogging software he wrote, that doesn't necessarily mean that it's blogging software he uses exclusively. :) Perhaps he is distributing this to a user base, or hosting the solution for users on a web server of his own. If this is the case, then allowing the user (who will receive no compensation for these ads, I might add--no pun intended) to decide where the advertisement will go--or if it will go in at all!--might be counterproductive. Maybe I misunderstood. Todd Boyd Web Programmer