text links in comments into actual links

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wompedy Reply #1, 18 years, 5 months ago

i’m wondering if anyone knows how to make full urls left in my comments turn into actual links, like bbcode does.

thanks for any tips!

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MARKSVIRTUALDESK Reply #2, 18 years, 5 months ago

It shouldn’t be too hard. Anyone know the line of code bbcode uses to accomplish this?

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MARKSVIRTUALDESK Reply #3, 18 years, 5 months ago

Ahah! Found one:

 $output[1] = preg_replace("/\b((http(s?):\/\/)|(www\.))([\w\.]+)([-~\/\w+\.-?]+)\b/i", "<a href=\"http$3://$4$5$6\" target=\"_blank\">$2$4$5$6</a>", $output[1]);

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opengeek Reply #4, 18 years, 5 months ago

You can also check out some regular expressions from other formatters. Here is an example from my EtoWiki snippet I developed when using Etomite months ago (based on roWiki) for doing even more than just converting text links, if you’re interested:

	$wikiOutput = preg_replace("/&#036;/Umsi", "$", $wikiOutput);
	$wikiOutput = preg_replace('#\[(.+)\|h(ttps?://[0-9a-zA-Z\.\#/~\-_%=\?\&,\+]*)\]#U', '<a href="xx$2">$1</a>', $wikiOutput);
	$wikiOutput = preg_replace('#h(ttps?://[0-9a-zA-Z\.\&\#\:/~\-_%=?]*\.(jpg|gif|png))#i', '<img src="xx$1" />', $wikiOutput);
	$wikiOutput = preg_replace('#(https?://[0-9a-zA-Z\.\&\#\:/~\-_%=?]*)#i', '<a href="$0">$1</a>', $wikiOutput);
	$wikiOutput = preg_replace('#xxttp#', 'http', $wikiOutput);
	$wikiOutput = preg_replace("/\[([0-9a-zA-Z\- :\.,\(\)\']+)\]/U", "<a href=\"$wikiDocLink?page=$1\">$1</a>", $wikiOutput);
	$wikiOutput = preg_replace('#([0-9a-zA-Z\./~\-_]+@[0-9a-z\./~\-_]+)#i', '<a href="mailto:$0">$0</a>', $wikiOutput);
	$wikiOutput = preg_replace('/^\*(.*)\n/Um', "<ul><li>$1</li></ul>", $wikiOutput);
	$wikiOutput = preg_replace('/^\#(.*)\n/Um', "<ol><li>$1</li></ol>", $wikiOutput);
	$wikiOutput = preg_replace('/(<\/ol><ol>|<\/ul><ul>)/', "", $wikiOutput);
	$wikiOutput = preg_replace('/^!!!(.*)(\n)/Um', '<h4>$1</h4>', $wikiOutput);
	$wikiOutput = preg_replace('/^!!(.*)(\n)/Um', '<h5>$1</h5>', $wikiOutput);
	$wikiOutput = preg_replace('/^!(.*)(\n)/Um', '<h6>$1</h6>', $wikiOutput);
	$wikiOutput = preg_replace('/----(\r\n|\r|\n)/m', '<hr />', $wikiOutput);
	$wikiOutput = preg_replace('/\n/', '<br />', $wikiOutput);
	$wikiOutput = preg_replace('#(</h[123]>)<br />#', "$1", $wikiOutput);
	$wikiOutput = preg_replace("/{(.+)}/Ue", "'<code><pre>' . preg_replace('#<br />#', '', '\\1') . '</pre></code>'", $wikiOutput);
	$wikiOutput = preg_replace("/'''(.*)'''/Um", '<strong>$1</strong>', $wikiOutput);
	$wikiOutput = preg_replace("/''(.*)''/Um", '<em>$1</em>', $wikiOutput);

I’d really like to see a Textile or 37 Signals style formatter integrated fully with MODx as a plugin!

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Ryan Thrash Reply #5, 18 years, 5 months ago

I think 37 Signals is Markdown or Textile actually.

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davidm Reply #6, 18 years, 5 months ago

There is a Textile Beta plugin. I still have to take the time to test it, being Textile savvy

But textile does not auto-convert urls into links. Those EtoWiki regular expressions are a good idea

I also like the idea of auto-acronyms, very useful.

Markdown should be easy to port with phpMarkdown

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