I'm not sure how to go about doing this.

I want it so that when someone enters the following text :b: into the description of their link, it should change it to an image that I have stored on my server

In a modern day forum, I would simply use :b: as a censored word and translate the censored word to the <img src= bla bla bla.gif> html code.

Is there maybe a simple way of doing that, maybe as a template golbal or something like that?

So that when somone types :b: it gets translated onto the detailed.html page as the img src html code tag of my choice.

Thanks,

P.S. I thought it might be as simple as adding a template global named :b: and the contents of the global be the actual html img src tag, but that didn't do anything for me.

Hi,

Well, should be as simple as:

replace_html_with_image

,...then call with:

<%replace_html_with_image($Description)%>

This would replace :b: with the value in $replace_with.

Hope that helps.

Cheers

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Thanks Andy, I'll try that.

What is it that I need to change in this coding since I've got a total of 5 different images that will be needed to be called using simple tags :b: :u: :f: :w: :r:

I understand replacing the :b: in the example you gave and of course the img src, but what about the name of the global and any other coding in the global? Or would I call them all the same name and only change the img src and the :b: tags?

Okay, Im getting a similar error as before: Error: Variable 'replace_html_with_image' is not a code reference

Global Name: replace_html_with_image

Code:

sub {
my $replace_with = q|<img src="http://www.mydomain.com/images/black_mana.gif" />|;
my $tmp = $_[0];
$tmp =~ s/\Q:b:/$replace_with/sig;
return $tmp;
}

On Detailed.html template:

Code:

<%replace_html_with_image($Description)%>

Mmm, looks ok to me (no extra spaces anywhere)

Not sure without having a look.

Cheers

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