[Resolved] Links to hints like "sponsored links" at computing.net or devshed

[helil]

I'd like to know if it's possible, via php/MySQL to achieve something like the sponsored links, seen for instance in computing.net and devshed, but what I'd like to do is populate a table with definitions for words, and, when that word appears into some text in the site, it gets highlighted and it pops-up a definition.

Thanks in advance,

helil

[rrijnders]

I am not sure what you mean by "sponsored links" or how that relates to your issue of popping up definitions for defined words but...

I think something like OverLib is your best bet for pop-up definitions for highlighted words or phrases. You would simply load the dictionary words from you db into an array. Then, before outputting page text, do a str_replace() for each of the words replacing the word with the appropriate html and javascript required for the OverLib pop-up.

[helil]

That seems to be exactly what I was looking for. I'll play around with that. Thanks a lot.

[helil]

I'm stuck in here. I couldn't output the proper linked word. Here's my non-functioning code so far:

$arre["the.html"] = "the";
$arre["keep.html"] = "keep";

$phrase = "We are the champions my friend. and we'll keep on fighting to the end";

$temp = array_values($arre);
$temp2 = array_keys($arre);
$phrase = str_replace($temp, "<a href=\"".$temp2."\">".$temp."</a>", $phrase);

echo ("$phrase");

Wich returns: "We are Array champions my friend. and we'll Array on fighting to Array end".

😕

[rrijnders]

You are getting the word "Array" in the string because you are doing concatenation or "string building" inside the function, which is not allowed with arrays as parameters. Instead, build your substitution array like this

$arre = Array(
	'the' => '<A HREF=\"the.html\">the</A>',
	'keep' => '<A HREF=\"keep.html\">keep</A>'
	);

and then your substitution like this:

$phrase = str_replace($temp2, $temp1, $phrase);