On 16/02/2011, at 10:03 AM, Brian Dunning wrote:
> Hey all -
>
> I've got long articles, the HTML for which comes out of MySQL. Works great. I want to split it up so that I can insert ad blocks at various points within it. The articles are all pretty long but they're of variable length. I want to chop them up into three close-to-equal (doesn't have to be) chunks of paragraphs, thus:
>
> <p>Here's the original article</p>
> <p>Here's the original article</p>
> <p>Here's the original article</p>
> <p>Here's the original article</p>
> <p>Here's the original article</p>
>
> Would become:
>
> <p>Here's the original article</p>
> <p>Here's the original article</p>
> <?php include('first_ad'); ?>
> <p>Here's the original article</p>
> <p>Here's the original article</p>
> <?php include('second_ad'); ?>
> <p>Here's the original article</p>
>
> Any suggestions? Thanks.
Assuming you're only using <p> tags, count the number of opening <p> tags, divide by three. First ad block goes after the round($amount/3)-th </p>, second ad block goes after the round($amount/3*2)-th </p>.
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