I'm curious about having nicknames mentioned in a post link to their relevant profile.

Does anything like this exist? If not, anyone interested in making it or getting me on my way> I'm comfortable with PHP but the Vanilla extension system confuses me.. no idea where to start.

Could use a tag i'm presuming, to save every word of every post having to be parsed to see if it's a nick.. maybe putting something on either side of it like BBcode works, or just #nick# or something.

Then again ideally it should do it automatically so that even if people don't know or use the tags and type someones nickname, it still links.

You could use a kind of escape character (like /grahack or /infexd).
Your extension would basically be a Formatter. Have a look at this page and especially this one.

I always thought /me worked?
Nope, I'm sure I've used it in the past though.

Posted: Monday, 16 July 2007 at 9:54AM

I'm sure the ExtendedTextFormatter could be adapted so that it not only replaces "/ me" (space to stop it doing it here) with a self-profile-link but also replaces /[anyword] by just querying the database for that nickname's account ID and linking to the profile that way?

I tried pulling this out to make it work just as a "/ me" replace to get started but it won't work.. ? My plan is to get this working as a standalone "/ me" replacer, without the link parser etc that was in this extension, and then add in from there some code to work for "/nickname"..



if (in_array($Context->SelfUrl, array("comments.php", "post.php"))) {
// An implementation of the string filter interface for plain text strings
class ProfileLinker extends StringFormatter {
function Parse ($String, $Object, $FormatPurpose) {
$sReturn = $String;
// Only format plain text strings if they are being displayed (save in database as is)
if ($FormatPurpose == FORMAT_STRING_FOR_DISPLAY) {
$sReturn = preg_replace("/\/\bme\b/", $this->GetAccountLink($Object), $sReturn);
}
return $sReturn;
}

function GetAccountLink($Object) {
if (isset($Object->AuthUserID) && $Object->AuthUserID != "" && isset($Object->AuthUsername) && $Object->AuthUsername != "") {
return '<a href="'.GetUrl($Object->Context->Configuration, 'account.php', '', 'u', $Object->AuthUserID).'">'.$Object->AuthUsername.'</a>';
} else {
return '/ me'; //space in source so it doesn't parse on lussomo forums
}
}
}

$ProfileLinker = $Context->ObjectFactory->NewObject($Context, "ProfileLinker");
$Context->StringManipulator->Formatters[$Configuration["DEFAULT_FORMAT_TYPE"]]->AddChildFormatter($ProfileLinker);
}