Re: [PHP] Half way
At 5:27 PM +0200 10/22/08, Jochem Maas wrote: personally I prefer the solution where there is no ad shown at all. I hear that -- I hate it when you develop a beautiful site for a client and then they want to hang ads off it -- and then complain about the site being too wide. Can't win Cheers, tedd -- --- http://sperling.com http://ancientstones.com http://earthstones.com -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
[PHP] Half way
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. Ron -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Half way
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. Personally I prefer the later options as its probably easier ;) Regards Ian -- -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
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. Regards Ian -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
RE: [PHP] Half way
-Original Message- From: Jochem Maas [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, October 22, 2008 10:27 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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 -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
RE: [PHP] Half way
On Wed, 2008-10-22 at 10:43 -0500, Boyd, Todd M. wrote: -Original Message- From: Jochem Maas [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, October 22, 2008 10:27 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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 I think your best bet is to find the mid-point of the content (use Ians suggestion of counting paragraphs) which can be done with a regular expression to match p tags or br/br/ (sometimes you'll find double line breaks instead of paragraph tags if content was copied from Microshaft Word) This should give you the character position which you can then use as an offset in a replace function. Ash www.ashleysheridan.co.uk -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
