Re: using image place holders in a database field?

Oops. That should've been $string = ereg_replace("##([^#]+)##", "<img src=\"\\1\">", $string); ----- Original Message ----- From: "Philip Murray" <me@philth.net.nz> To: "Matthew Delmarter" <matt@adplusonline.com> Cc: <php-general@lists.php.net> Sent: Wednesday, July 11, 2001 3:57 PM Subject: Re: [PHP] using image place holders in a database field? > This should do it for you > > <? > > $string = "Here is a picture ##flowers.jpg## of some flowers"; > $string = ereg_replace("##(.+)##", "<img src=\"\\1\">", > $string); > > print($string); > // prints 'Here is a picture <img src="flowers.jpg"> of some flowers' > > ?> > > The "##(.+)##" parts matches any string with two # at the start and the end, > the <img src=\"\\1\"> part replaces the ##string## with <img src="string">. > The \\1 is a reference to the string matched with (.+) in the first > parameter. '.+' matches any character 1 or more times. > > -------------------------------- - -- - - - > Philip Murray > me@philth.net.nz > ------------- - -- - - > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Matthew Delmarter" <matt@adplusonline.com> > To: "PHP Mailing List" <php-general@lists.php.net> > Sent: Wednesday, July 11, 2001 3:47 PM > Subject: [PHP] using image place holders in a database field? > > > > Hi all, > > > > I want to use image place holders in a mysql field. The field will store a > > newsletter article and I want to include and display an image in the > > article. > > > > For example I will have: > > "the article text ##image_name## some more article text". > > > > I will use str_replace to replace ##image_name## with the html tag to > > display such as <img src='/images/image_name'>. > > > > But - I don't know how to write the str_replace! Can anyone help? > > > > Also, is there are better way to do this?? Can I have images displayed in > > the middle of text from a field some other way? > > > > I also cannot seem to find much on using place holders in a field - but I > > can see it's advantages. > > > > I hope this all makes sense... > > > > Regards, > > > > Matthew Delmarter > > > > > > -- > > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-general-unsubscribe@lists.php.net > > For additional commands, e-mail: php-general-help@lists.php.net > > To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php-list-admin@lists.php.net > > > > > > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-general-unsubscribe@lists.php.net > For additional commands, e-mail: php-general-help@lists.php.net > To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php-list-admin@lists.php.net > >