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Kind of like some of those advertising services do... Auto-link certain words to relevant ads.
Except I'm not thinking of ads, more like educational help. I have a pretty extensive site built around my forum and would like to raise awareness and help people learn.
For example, if someone uses the exact phrase large cent in a post, it would be cool if it automatically linked like so, large cent. Perhaps with a slightly different link color or a little arrow next to it (like Wikipedia) so users get accustomed to it being an on-site educational link.
I tried using the bad word filter, but the fields are a little too short.
Has anyone done anything like this?
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Except I'm not thinking of ads, more like educational help. I have a pretty extensive site built around my forum and would like to raise awareness and help people learn.
For example, if someone uses the exact phrase large cent in a post, it would be cool if it automatically linked like so, large cent. Perhaps with a slightly different link color or a little arrow next to it (like Wikipedia) so users get accustomed to it being an on-site educational link.
I tried using the bad word filter, but the fields are a little too short.
Has anyone done anything like this?
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just create yourself a new table to store the various links/phrases in and just duplicate the badwordfilter function but select the values from your new table, then at the end of the badword filter, just call your new function.<
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Thanks Huw, I'm going to give it a go this week. 
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If you get this to work, I may be interested. Keep us posted of your progress.<
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Haven't had time to play with this yet, but it has been on my mind.
I have a question. It appears, from my memory, that the bad word filter works 2 ways.
New posts (and edited posts?) it actually changes what's entered into the DB, but posts previous to the BW entry, just being viewed, get changed using server variables.
Is that correct?<
I have a question. It appears, from my memory
, that the bad word filter works 2 ways.
New posts (and edited posts?) it actually changes what's entered into the DB, but posts previous to the BW entry, just being viewed, get changed using server variables.
Is that correct?<
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Originally posted by bobby131313Actually your mixing up different things. Badwords and replacement words are kept in app variables, no matter what.
Haven't had time to play with this yet, but it has been on my mind.
I have a question. It appears, from my memory
New posts (and edited posts?) it actually changes what's entered into the DB, but posts previous to the BW entry, just being viewed, get changed using server variables.
Is that correct?
When a post is created, badwords are replaced and their substitutes stored in the database, as integral part of the post. When a topic is displayed, badword filtering is done again, so even badwords that were not on the list when the post was created get filtered on display.
Both when replacing words on a new post creation op or when displaying a existing topic, app variables contents are used, unless they are blank, in which case the app variables get reloaded from the database.<