Posted by Curtis on 12/17/05 06:49

We're writing a markup language, which naturally entails a
lot of text substitution. We use / to do italics, for
example, /like so./ The basics are not unlike Textile.

That means, of course, that links would get clobbered and
wind up looking like www.mysite.com<it>subdir</it>subdir.
You get the picture. Percent signs are another common one in
URL's.

We're using double brackets to signify links, with displayed
text after a bar, like this: [[www.mysite.com/here/there |
my site]]

Unless someone has a better suggestion, we were thinking of
simply pulling all the text out of the brackets and placing
it in an array, processing the paragraphs without the link
text, the links in the array to the appropriate HTML, then
replacing each [[]] sequentially with a HTMLified array
item.


if (strstr($parags[$i], "[["))


preg_match_all("/

[
([^\[]{1,200})
\]\]/x",
$parags[$i], &$brackets);
foreach ($brackets[1] as $link)
{
$linkarray[] = $link; # $linkarray global.
$parags[$i] = str_replace($link, "", $parags[$i]);
}
}

We wind up with [[]] in the text as as marker, and the contents of each in the array. Is pulling the text out, then serially restoring it after we've created the HTML link in the array the fastest approach, do you think?

Too, we've maxed out the link at 200 characters to write the code. Any thoughts on a more appropriate figure?

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Curtis

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