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by Drexlin
08 Jun 2010, 21:00
Forum: BBCode Support
Topic: Making a call to a database
Replies: 10
Views: 5778

Re: Making a call to a database

and you put in the correct html the post will show.... This is exactly what I need help accomplishing! Ok, let me start over... I have a card database consisting of over 300 cards. Each card has a unique image. For example, "Infiltrate" is ST4.jpg, "Forge" is ST20.jpg, etc. But the user does not ...
by Drexlin
08 Jun 2010, 20:19
Forum: BBCode Support
Topic: Making a call to a database
Replies: 10
Views: 5778

Re: Making a call to a database

Yes, but the user will not know "ST4", he will only know that the name of the card is "Infiltrate". I need some way of looking it up without the user knowing the set and number.

Am I making sense?
by Drexlin
07 Jun 2010, 20:40
Forum: BBCode Support
Topic: Making a call to a database
Replies: 10
Views: 5778

Re: Making a call to a database

Maybe I'm just not explaining correctly... The problem is my card images are not stored including the name. They are stored something like "./images/cards/ST4.jpg", where "ST" is the abbreviation for the set name, and 4 is the card number. So here's what I'd like to have happen. The poster types ...
by Drexlin
07 Jun 2010, 19:38
Forum: BBCode Support
Topic: Making a call to a database
Replies: 10
Views: 5778

Re: Making a call to a database

Hey Stoker, Thanks for the response, but that's not exactly what I'm looking for. That would work great assuming the poster knows the url of the image. But since they more than likely won't know the url, I would like to look it up in the database. So I guess my real question is: Is there a way to do ...
by Drexlin
06 Jun 2010, 15:29
Forum: BBCode Support
Topic: Making a call to a database
Replies: 10
Views: 5778

Making a call to a database

I'm hoping someone here will be able to help me. I have a fan site for a trading card game. I created a database with all the cards and images in it. Now I want to write a custom BBCode that searches my database for the card image given the name. Something like this: [card="Card Name"]Card Name ...