Re: [WebDNA] Display Live URL from a Block of Copy

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2009

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texte = The more I think about this, the more I think javascript would be the way= to go. There are those=20ad services that take keywords on pages and turn them into hot-links for =advertising.-DanOn Sun, 08 Feb 2009 12:51:08 -0800 "Dan Strong" wrote:> Hmmm, my very first thought is to [listwords] with the space char. as a= delimiter, but it might=20>end up being process-intensive if you have a lot of it going on. If you =got this route, it might=20>be best to detect and change to live URLs then write them to the .db rat=her than detect and=20>change on-the-fly upon every display.>=20> [!]-- Do this after all cleansing routines, of course (XSS, etc.) --[/!=]>=20> [listwords words=3D[grep search=3D%20&replace=3D=20>][url][your_block_of_text][/url][/grep]&delimiters=3D=20> ]> [showif [word]~http://]> [grep search=3D[word]&replace=3D[url] href=3D"[/url][word][url]">[/url][word][url][/url]][word][/grep]> [/showif]> [/listwords]>=20> I grepped [url]'ed spaces in the [listwords] since multiple chars can't= be delimiters that I=20>know of and you'd need to force user to enter "http://" or detect and ad=d yourself if not there.=20>Also, you'd need to obviously [unurl] everything either when writing to =.db or displaying.>=20> This really seems overly-complicated to me, but it was my first thought=, and an incomplete on at=20>that. I am sure there's a much more elegant way to tackle this, but hope=fully it will give you an=20>idea.> -Dan>=20>=20> On Sun, 08 Feb 2009 14:01:31 -0600> Eddie Z wrote:>> I thought I'd ask everyone before I dive in and try some stuff... I ha=ve a>> site where I allow an administrator to post content/text to a db via a>> textarea. I want them to be able to post website URLs in the textarea =and>> have the URL be a live link when it is displayed on the site. So in ot=her>> words, I want to pull out URLs from a block of copy and make them live=,>> clickable links when they are displayed on my web page. I would assume>> there's a way to do this, but I've never had to try it until now.>>=20>> A push in the right direction would be appreciated.>> Eddie> ---------------------------------------------------------> This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to> the mailing list .> To unsubscribe, E-mail to: > archives: http://mail.webdna.us/list/talk@webdna.us> old archives: http://dev.webdna.us/TalkListArchive/ Associated Messages, from the most recent to the oldest:

Re: [WebDNA] Display Live URL from a Block of Copy (Tom Duke 2009)
Re: [WebDNA] Display Live URL from a Block of Copy ("Dan Strong" 2009)
Re: [WebDNA] Display Live URL from a Block of Copy ("Dan Strong" 2009)
[WebDNA] Display Live URL from a Block of Copy (Eddie Z 2009)

The more I think about this, the more I think javascript would be the way= to go. There are those=20ad services that take keywords on pages and turn them into hot-links for =advertising.-DanOn Sun, 08 Feb 2009 12:51:08 -0800 "Dan Strong" wrote:> Hmmm, my very first thought is to [listwords] with the space char. as a= delimiter, but it might=20>end up being process-intensive if you have a lot of it going on. If you =got this route, it might=20>be best to detect and change to live URLs then write them to the .db rat=her than detect and=20>change on-the-fly upon every display.>=20> [!]-- Do this after all cleansing routines, of course (XSS, etc.) --[/!=]>=20> [listwords words=3D[grep search=3D%20&replace=3D=20>][url][your_block_of_text][/url][/grep]&delimiters=3D=20> ]> [showif [word]~http://]> [grep search=3D[word]&replace=3D[url] href=3D"[/url][word][url]">[/url][word][url][/url]][word][/grep]> [/showif]> [/listwords]>=20> I grepped [url]'ed spaces in the [listwords] since multiple chars can't= be delimiters that I=20>know of and you'd need to force user to enter "http://" or detect and ad=d yourself if not there.=20>Also, you'd need to obviously [unurl] everything either when writing to =.db or displaying.>=20> This really seems overly-complicated to me, but it was my first thought=, and an incomplete on at=20>that. I am sure there's a much more elegant way to tackle this, but hope=fully it will give you an=20>idea.> -Dan>=20>=20> On Sun, 08 Feb 2009 14:01:31 -0600> Eddie Z wrote:>> I thought I'd ask everyone before I dive in and try some stuff... I ha=ve a>> site where I allow an administrator to post content/text to a db via a>> textarea. I want them to be able to post website URLs in the textarea =and>> have the URL be a live link when it is displayed on the site. So in ot=her>> words, I want to pull out URLs from a block of copy and make them live=,>> clickable links when they are displayed on my web page. I would assume>> there's a way to do this, but I've never had to try it until now.>>=20>> A push in the right direction would be appreciated.>> Eddie> ---------------------------------------------------------> This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to> the mailing list .> To unsubscribe, E-mail to: > archives: http://mail.webdna.us/list/talk@webdna.us> old archives: http://dev.webdna.us/TalkListArchive/ "Dan Strong"

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