There are a few more things to go over.

Could you send me an email to consulting@interactivetools.com (with FTP and CMS login) and we'll continue the conversation there?

Thanks.

Interesting.

Any idea what we're talking about in terms of cost?

Jerry

I have an idea that's a bit different than what you are starting with.

My first thought is setting up the "Image Library" as a multi-record section.  Each record would be a single image upload and text field called "Placeholder".

Let's assume some example placeholder names:

Image1
Image2
Image3

Note: the placeholders will need to be unique.

Next, we agree on the syntax for calling the images -> example: "#placeholderName"

When you are creating content in another section, you can access the images like this:

"Here's a great photo, #Image1"

Finally, we would build a plugin that runs on record_postSave that reviews the content field and swaps any of the placeholders with an image tag to the appropriate image file.

The plugin will need to include an array that maps out what tables to work and what field names to look for.

Does that make sense?  Feel free to contact me via consulting@interactivetools.com if you want us to build the plugin for you.

Let me know any questions.

(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>