[geeklog-devel] Idea for next 1.3.x

[Tony Bibbs]

I'm sure a little time with the Komodo regex tool and you could have it 
working. Be sure to let this be configurable.  Some may want to turnt his 
off.

--Tony

 On Mon, 10 Mar 2003, 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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