Re: using image place holders in a database field?

I am going to take this sideways and push my own agenda. :-) In your position, I would consider storing the newsletter text as blobs of XML. Keep it dead simple to start with: <!ELEMENT blob (p+) > <!ELEMENT p (#PCDATA|img) > <!ELEMENT img (#PCDATA) > which would make your article text: <blob><p>the article text <img>image_name</img> some more article text</p></blob> and you could then use eregi_replace to turn into HTML: $text = "<blob><p>the article text <img>image_name</img> some more article text</p></blob>"; // Remove the "blob" tags $text = eregi_replace( "<[\/]?blob>", "" , "", $text ); // Resolve the image element $text = eregi_replace("<img>([^#]+)</img>", "<img src=\"\\1\">", $text) Disadvantages: * A little more complex up front Advantages: * You have given yourself room to move if you need to start expanding on what

    you can do with inline markers

At 15:38 11/07/2001 +1200, Matthew Delmarter wrote:

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

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