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
>
>
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