[geeklog-devel] Idea for next 1.3.x

[Simon Lord]

I most definitely would like this feature!

On Sunday, March 9, 2003, at 07:27 PM, LIMBURG, Mark wrote:

> Howdy,
>
> Autolinks as per postnuke.
>
> In essence, the concept is fairly simple.  The admin creates a bunch of
> 'text' which is automatically altered to become a link.  Let's go with 
> an
> example.
>
> Text: Google
> Link: http://www.google.com/
> Title: The Google Search Engine
>
> Whenever the word 'google' appears, it's replaced with:
>
>   <a href="http://www.google.com/" title="The Google Search Engine"
> class="autolink">Google</a>
>
> Now the annoying bit.  We'll need to ensure that the autolink does NOT 
> occur
> when it shouldn't.  The best example I can think of is if the word is
> already inside a link.  This would be annoying:
>
>   <a href="http://www.<a href="http://www.google.com/" title="The 
> Google
> Search Engine" class="autolink">Google</a>.com/">Go</a>
>
> Now, you *could* use a space pattern match, so only " google " would be
> valid, but that doesn't fix a bunch of problems also.  The follow 
> shows this
> ..
>
>  <a href="http://sitename.com">My <a href="http://www.google.com/"
> title="The Google Search Engine" class="autolink">Google</a> 
> Statistics</a>
>
> .. not to mention " google." and the like.
>
> So, I think we'd need to do some pattern parsing.  If the term is 
> inside a
> <a> then it doesn't apply.  If my brain was actually online (I'm 
> writing
> this from notes I made on the weekend) I'm sure I could think of a few 
> more.
>
> As an additional extra, these links would appear in the 'whats 
> releated'
> section of a story.
>
> Thoughts?  Is this something people want?
>
> Regards,
>
> Mark Limburg
> Team Leader, Unix Operations, Information Systems
>
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Sincerely,
Simon