adsense inside news content

[frank1]

well
i have news as a text field of mysql ..and is retrived from database using php..
what i want to do is get that adsene inside the news content or news to wrap adsense

how can i do that

if i use substr..the news content is broken in many cases...
like..
....he said

adsense

that ....

so i can i warp or put adsense inside..
i dont think its illegal to do that ..

[mudshark]

You could use a custom tag that you put where you want the adsense to appear, write that to the database along with your news text and then, for display, split the content with that custom tag as the parameter. That would give you an array with two elements; inbetween you'd put the adsense.

Something like...

<?php
$s = "this is a string. <!-- more --> here's another string.";
$bits = split("<!-- more -->", $s);
echo $bits[0];
include "my_adsense_js_include.inc.php";
echo $bits[1];
?>

[frank1]

thanks for reply
seems like too difficult question as no many replies

any way that means i have to insert that custom made adsense code along with news content every time...

and while breaking like this from where that <!-- more --> come in my news
if i use function i think it will break things ...like words of sentences and even words itself
like The president di
adsense
d the things....

so ,by the way whats about breaking the news into two parts and while breaking search for .(foolstop) which indiate end of word...

i have once such example but when i use it it does the work but 8/10 times it could not break and give 30 second exceeds....message...

so any way
by the way any designer way of doing it ...from designing as well i wasnot able to design to get that...

any way thanks for reply

[mudshark]

The point is that you decide where to put the custom tag when you're typing your news in the textarea. I.e.:

This is the first part of my news item which I want to appear before the adsense block.
<--my_custom_tag-->
Now I proceed to type the portion of news that comes after the adsense block.

Insert that into your database, and when retrieving it for display refer to the code in my previous post.

[frank1]

anyway thanks for yor answer but inserting adsense code every time doesnt sound pro to be frank ...
and what about the news not published by us...

ok i have an idea
ok after i get the news

$news=$row['news'];
$total=strlen($news);
then i may use substr to get may be 300 words then 
news1=substr($news,0,300);
then 
news2=substr($news,301,$total)
then 
echo $news1
adsense
echo $news2 

may be in diffrent <tr>

but i see some problem here
first thing it will chop off the words...
if i use some custom made function not to break the word then ,what it normally does is it searchs for fool stop after 300 words (first . after 300 words,then only break it....)
but that way the in news2( substr($str,301...) some part of first para will be repeated in that second para as well

and second problem i dont think using function like strlen for whole string (news may be 10000 or even more words) is good option...or may give query exceeds 30 second limit.. message..
or make query excecution slow

i think it can be done being in this principle if some expert use their head..i hope it will be help ful for many
can any expert ammend it a little considering those problems...

[spikeZ]

Hi,
Here is a function I came up with for inserting 2 images into a body of text. You can use the same principle for inserting your adsense.

    function array_insert($text, $pos, $image, $image2=null, $pos2=null) {
        $text = split("[.]", $text);
        
        
            $array2 = array_splice($text,$pos);
           if($image !='<img src="images/" align="right" class="imagepad" />') {    
            $text[] = $image;
           }    
           $array = array_merge($text,$array2);
          
          if($image2 !='<img src="images/" align="left" class="imagepad" />') {
            $array3 = array_splice($array,$pos2);
               $array[] = $image2;
               $array_double = array_merge($array,$array3);
               
                              
           $return = implode(" ", $array_double);
        } else {
      
          $return = implode(" ", $array);
        }
        
           return $return;
    } 

Explanation:
The function takes 3 required parameters:
$text, $pos, $image
(the other 2 are optional)

$text = the body of text
$pos = the position in paragraphs where you want the image or whatever
$image = the image name

usage:

// eg $row['textbody'] from the database
echo array_insert($row['textbody'], 5, 'myimage.jpg'); 

would insert an image at the 5th paragraph break, obviously you could substitute the image for your adsense code

Try it and see if it works for you!