How to add images in latest news joomla

Question

I need to get separated the image and text of the article, the problem is that they are in one field of the database, so how can i make that in the view i can put the image separated from the text? because i can't put the image and the text togheter, is a mess

<? foreach ($list as $item) :  ?>

                    <?

                        $year = date('Y', strtotime($item->created));
                        $month = date('m', strtotime($item->created));
                        $day = date('d', strtotime($item->created));


                        $shortDescription = cutString($item->introtext, 100);

                    ?>
                    <div class="footerItem">
                    <?= $day; ?>-<?= $month; ?>-<?= $year; ?>
                    <p><a href="<?= $item->link; ?>"><?= $item->title; ?></a></p>
                    <p>
                    <?= $shortDescription; ?>
                    </p>
                    </div>
<?php endforeach; ?>

so i need to put the image like this $item->image - this is what i want, but in joomla latestnews_mod, there is no field with image, and i don't know if i need to write my own, or edit this module, or i need to use other module for this ? And also i cannot get the field $item->category that i need, there is only the CAT_ID, and how can i get the category field??

Answer 1

I've lost touch with Joomla a bit, so it's entirely possible this is not the easiest way, but could you use regex to pull out the image from the intro-text if it's not specifically given?

You'd need a pattern something like: <img\b[^>]+?src\s*=\s*['"]?([^\s'"?#>]+)

That's taken from this question: Regex to find the first image in an image tag in an HTML document

EDIT: Example using preg_match:

<?php
  // This is the Regex pattern from above.
  $pattern = '/<img\b[^>]+?src\s*=\s*[\'"]?([^\s\'"?#>]+)/'; 

  // Perform the search, matches will be stored in $matches
  preg_match($pattern, $item->introtext, $matches ); 

  echo "Image src is: " . $matches[1] . "\n";
?>

Do note that this is relatively untested, may not work and if it does, may miss cases with bad markup!