Plugin: Dynamic Text Replace

Spooky or what, I already use your fantastic [url=”http://www.coffee2code.com/archives/2004/06/29/plugin-text-replace/”]Text Replace[/url] and I stopped by the site to suggest a similar modification to facilitate the above. Looks like you’re well ahead of me!
Installed.

Hi Scott,

Thank you for the plugin! Very nice and simple to use. I did get the new tab logged as the admin . Maybe David should try it as admin? One thing I noticed was that a have a line appear on top of my posts for every use of a pseudo-function as such:

key was (wikipedia), text was (pvc), display was (PVC)

key was (wikipedia), text was (psat), display was (PSAT)

Is this a “side effect” or have I missed some “tweak” in the documentation?

Cheers,

Og

Wow! That is what I call community work!!! I will make sure my friends hear of your work Scott! Absolutely good stuff!

MichaelE: Tsan Takk… Is that Danish? I forgot how to answer it… 🙂

Good stuff. I added a quicktag for it. Now everything is so much simpler. You might wanna add a quicktag on the plugin – i find it very useful.

I think this plug-in would be more useful if it can support more than one variable. I’ve made minor amendment on the helper function as below. Hope you don’t mind. 😛

function __c2c_dynamic_text_replace_helper( $key, $text, $display='' ) {
  $separator = "||";
  $answer = '';
  $text_altered = '';
  if ( '' == $display ) $display = $text;
  $options = get_option('c2c_dynamic_text_replace');
  $pseudo_functions  = $options['pseudo_functions'];
  if (!empty($pseudo_functions)) {
    // Got special handling you want done on the text?  Do it here by setting the value for $text_altered
    switch ($key) {
      case 'answers' :
        $text_altered = str_replace(' ', '%20', $text);
        break;
      case 'google' :
      case 'imdb' :
        $text_altered = wp_specialchars(implode("+", explode(" ", $text)));
        break;
      case 'codex' :
      case 'wikipedia' :
        $text_altered = str_replace(' ', '_', $text);
        break;
    }

    if (strpos($text, $separator)) {
      $vars = explode($separator, $text);
      $answer = str_replace(array_fill(1,count($vars),$separator), $vars , $pseudo_functions[$key]);
      $answer = str_replace("%display%", $display, $answer);
    }
    else {
      $answer = str_replace("%text%", $text, $pseudo_functions[$key]);
      $answer = str_replace("%display%", $display, $answer);
    }
  }
  return str_replace("%text_altered%", ($text_altered)?$text_altered:$text, $answer);
} // end function __c2c_dynamic_text_replace_helper()

This version should be ok.

Sample Usage => No need of FLASHIFIER plugin now

1) Add this in POST:-

::flash(“01.swf$$310$$228”)::

2) Add this Pseudo-function:-

flash =>


function __c2c_dynamic_text_replace_helper( $key, $text, $display='' ) {
$separator = "$";
$answer = '';
$text_altered = '';
if ( '' == $display ) $display = $text;
$options = get_option('c2c_dynamic_text_replace');
$pseudo_functions = $options['pseudo_functions'];
if (!empty($pseudo_functions)) {
// Got special handling you want done on the text? Do it here by setting the value for $text_altered
switch ($key) {
case 'answers' :
$text_altered = str_replace(' ', '%20', $text);
break;
case 'google' :
case 'imdb' :
$text_altered = wp_specialchars(implode("+", explode(" ", $text)));
break;
case 'codex' :
case 'wikipedia' :
$text_altered = str_replace(' ', '_', $text);
break;
}

if (strpos($text, $separator.$separator)) {
$vars = explode($separator.$separator, $text);
for ($i = 1; $i

I have two ideas for your addon.

1. External Link Icon for every pseudo-function. Like the external icon on Wikipedia. WOuld be very nice.

2. Title value, i.e. ::amazon(“675327472657″,”Hellsing DVD Box”,”The complete Hellsing anime collection in one box.”)::. Would be nice, because withe the title value links would get a little popup with info exspecially when you use fancy tooltip plugin.

I hope you could think about these two little ideas, would be great.

I logged in as admin and activate the plugin but when i go to the options to click on the dynamic replace tab. It will always display

Forbidden
You don’t have permission to access /MobileGate/wp-admin/F:/xampplite/htdocs/MobileGate/wp-content/plugins/dynamic-text-replace.php on this server.

——————————————————————————–

Apache/2.0.53 (Win32) mod_ssl/2.0.53 OpenSSL/0.9.7e PHP/5.0.3 Server at ilsdev.psa Port 80

Why is it so? izzit about the permission of the directory of the files or some error of the versions?

I would really like to see a function that returns all the Dynamic Text Codes that are available. That way I could easily remember how and what I set up as well as other writers on the blog coul look up what is available since they do not have access to the plugin page.

Thanks so much!

Does this parse during posting, or during display?

I utilize external blog editors (qumana, flock, and ecto), as opposed to the WP post page. If this only parses during posting, then it’s pretty much not useful to me.

Also, is there support now (or maybe in future) for amazon affiliate IDs?

I’m only searching for a “macro replacer” , and I don’t have understand wht this plug in do 🙁

won’t work in WP 2

I tried installing this on a WP 2.0.2 install, and kept getting an error. On line 188, I believe that you need to end the heredoc with just END and the semicolon. The comment needs to go on another line. Once I did this, things seemed to work.