Using placeholder variables to insert images into text boxes

Hi All,

I’m using placeholder variables to insert images from a single record “Image Library” into various text boxes on a site, and I’d really like to make the code I'm using both more elegant and dynamic.

Right now, as you’ll see from the code below, the code that assigns images to the variables is hard coded and pretty repetitive, and unless I create a whole other set of placeholders and variables, I can only use thumbUrlPath2. Adding additional images to the library is also a hard coded process.

Anyone have an idea how I can streamline the process and make the code more dynamic so that I can use other Thumbnails and my client can add more placeholders and variables as needed?

(I'm pretty sure that a multi record "Image Library" would be a place to start, but I don't know how to use that to dynamically create the placeholders and assign the variables required.)

Thanks,

Jerry Kornbluth

Here’s the current code that creates the placeholders and assigns the variables (it’s included into each viewer where I want to use images). There are actually 12 placeholders and image fields, but I’ve only shown 3 in this example:

<?php // Code to add images to text boxes

list($image_libraryRecords, $image_libraryMetaData) = getRecords(array(
    'tableName'   => 'image_library',
    'where'       => '', // load first record
    'loadUploads' => true,
    'allowSearch' => false,
    'limit'       => '1',
  ));

  $image_libraryRecord = @$image_libraryRecords[0]; // get first record
  ?>
<?php if ($image_libraryRecord['image_1']):?>
<?php foreach ($image_libraryRecord['image_1'] as $index => $upload): ?>
 <?php $image1 = $upload['thumbUrlPath2'] ?>
<?php endforeach ?>
<?php endif ?>
<?php if ($image_libraryRecord['image_2']):?>
<?php foreach ($image_libraryRecord['image_2'] as $index => $upload): ?>
 <?php $image2 = $upload['thumbUrlPath2'] ?>
<?php endforeach ?>
<?php endif ?>
<?php if ($image_libraryRecord['image_3']):?>
<?php foreach ($image_libraryRecord['image_3'] as $index => $upload): ?>
 <?php $image3 = $upload['thumbUrlPath2'] ?>
<?php endforeach ?>
<?php endif ?>

<?php $placeHolders = array("*img1*", "*img2*", "*img3*");
$replaceWith = array(@$image1, @$image2, @$image3); ?>

Here’s the code that’s inserted into the viewer(s):

<?php echo str_replace($placeHolders, $replaceWith, $my_sectionRecord['my_text_box_contents']);?>


And here’s the code that’s inserted into the text box to load the placeholder for $image_4.

<div class=”my_class”><img  src="*img4*"></div>