This is the blog of Adam Kalsey. Unusual depth and complexity. Rich, full body with a hint of nutty earthiness.
This is the blog of Adam Kalsey. Unusual depth and complexity. Rich, full body with a hint of nutty earthiness.
16 Aug 2004
One of the things I really hate about reading newspaper Web sites is they often include URLs but don’t link them. So you have to copy and paste to open them (or just rightclick with the right Firefox extension).
I don’t want my site to look like a big, dumb newspaper. So I wrote a filter using Brad’s regex plugin to autolink URLs in entries. It hasn’t been extensively tested but it has worked for a the half-dozen or so entries in the Project X blog.
Install the regex plugin and then add this to the top of your templates…
<MTAddRegex name="autolink">s![> ](http://[^<" ]+)!<a href="$1">$1</a> !g</MTAddRegex>
Then add the attribute regex="autolink" to your MTEntryBody and MTEntry more tags in your templates: <MTEntryBody regex="autolink">.
I don’t have MT installed, but I think this regex will also replace existing links, and should read:
s!^">! <a href="$1">$1</a> !g
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No, the [> ] in my original regex means that the pattern will only match URLs that immediately follow a > (the end of a tag) or a blank space. So it won’t match a URL in an anchor tag.
For me, the regex you supplied only works on the first link immediately after a paragraph tag - and then it mucks up the paragraph tag like so:
<p<a href=
‘sup with that.
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Autolink URLs in MT Entries
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