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Cliff
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Oct 17, 2003, 1:34 PM
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Re: [jcocking] AM: Requesting a new Image Placeholder
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Hi Jeff,
Thanks for posting.
If you did have placeholder like that, how would you use it on your site? I'm just trying to figure out where or when you would use a tag like that. There may already be a workaround for what you are trying to accomplish.
Any more details would be great. Thanks Jeff 
Regards,
Cliff Stefanuk - Customer Service Manager
support@interactivetools.com
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jcocking
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Oct 17, 2003, 2:16 PM
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I use a php program to dynamically build thumbnail images for my website. I am looking at upgrading to a new program that dynamically builds the image once and stores them in a cache library. This program requires that I pass it a file name only.
jeff
Jeff Cocking
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VoIP Phone Comparisons (AM 2.02)
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Theo
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Oct 17, 2003, 5:28 PM
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Is it possible to use a bit of PHP or even javascript to parse out the image name from the regular placeholder - and could this be done before handing the filename off to the program?
In the Article edit interface there is a suffix for the image placeholder that spits out the image URL only (i.e. ***image1:url***) that should be much easier to parse than an entire image templatecell.
Theo Wiersma
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disciple
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Dec 29, 2003, 8:25 AM
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Re: [Theo] AM: Requesting a new Image Placeholder
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If you like to code everything in PHP like me, AM does a fine job in setting up the variables for PHP to parse what info it needs. To get the page name that you want, try the following code sample in your template: (note that the image placeholder will get replaced by the actual URL when you publish the page.)
<?PHP
$url = '***image1:url***';
$url_array = parse_url($url);
echo $url_array['path'];
?>
This will return 'showpage.php' from 'www.yoursite.com/showpage.php'
Hope you find this useful! -disciple
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Donna
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Dec 29, 2003, 10:15 AM
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Thanks for that suggestion, disciple! :)
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jcocking
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Dec 31, 2003, 7:33 AM
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Thank you for the code snippet. It was the final piece to the puzzle.
Now I have an automated thumbnail system. The php code grabs an image request and creates the thumbnail image. It then stores the image in a cache directory. The next time the image is needed, the code pulls it out of the cache directory. One modification to the article template and placing the code in the uploads directory. The rest occurs automatically as new pages are added. I love systems that require no additional work from the editors.
One more item marked off the to do list.
jeff
Jeff Cocking
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VoIP Phone Comparisons (AM 2.02)
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