[2.0.17] Wikipedia Reference BBCode

[MOD Robot]

MOD Name: Wikipedia Reference BBCode
Author: paul.tgk
MOD Description: Allows you to make keywords in your post
link to those entries at WikiPedia.
([wiki=en]keyword[/wiki]) en being english,
Supports the following Wikipedia languages:
English (en), Deutsch (de), Francias (fr), Nederlands (nl),
Portugues (pt), Italiano (it), Espanol (es), Polski (pl)
Svenski (sv).


MOD Version: 1.0.43

Download File: wikiPedia_bbcode_1_0_43.mod
mods overview page: View
File Size: 10743 Bytes

Security Score: 0

[ycl6]

MOD Validated/Released

Notes:
Using this MOD allows an additional Wiki bbcode to be used. Word enclosed with the bbcode is transformed into a link to Wikipedia.

[slant]

This is something I've been waiting for for a long time!! I got this as soon as I saw that it was available. I immediately started the implementation process only to get stuck on the first line. I could not find the following line at all in 'includes/bbcode.php':

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$EMBB_widths = array(''

I am using phpBB 2.0.15. Any thoughts? I'm willing to try anything! ;p I'm excited to get this working. Thanks for putting forth the effort to make this.

[slant]

<talks_to_self>Does the phrase "You must have Multiple BBCode MOD v1.4.0 or newer installed for this to work," mean anything to you?</talks_to_self>

Sheesh... I'm headed there now. Sorry to junk this thread up. It's called reading. I suppose that I've installed so many mods that didn't need any supplimental mods that required just line edits that I didn't even think to look.

[paul7v7]

i too am stuck on the first line...

[Mistainu]

yup i'm fussy so...here's an idea. i searched up "wiki" under MODs, came up with only FOKI at first. it's still in BETA but i think it's a good idea. could someone come up with a integrated or bundled FOKI/Wikipedia-Ref MOD? i think it's a cool idea, like a in-house wiki for editability ridding of redundant additions; plus references for terms to a established wiki (Wikipedia in this case), which rids of redundant questions of what is and all that. i think by enforcing these 2, a more fertile forums can be grown (forgive my farming terms =D), thus ridding us of pesky noobs (ops newbies...)!
how's that? someone reply with a YES?

[slant]

someone reply with a YES?

YES?

;p

I think that could be very interesting! I'm just hoping we can get this working first. One step at a time, right?

[NightriderXP]

Excellent Job!!! This MOD installed with only a few minor adjustments using EasyMod into my heavily modded board, which has 12 templates. This MOD works exactly as advertised. Thanks for your contribution paul.tgk..

[Serj21]

I like this mod, it gave me idea to adapt it to allow linking to my very own wiki but does anyone have any ideas how to make the links bold like standard links using the URL bbcode?

[Serj21]

ah wasn't that hard. I just changed:

in bbcode.tpl

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#
#-----[ OPEN ]---------------------------------------
#
open templates/subSilver/bbcode.tpl

#
#-----[ FIND ]---------------------------------------
#
<!-- BEGIN wiki --><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/{QUERY}" target="_blank">{STRING}</a><!-- END wiki -->

#
#-----[ REPLACE WITH ]-------------------------------
#
<!-- BEGIN wiki --><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/{QUERY}" target="_blank" class="postlink">{STRING}</a><!-- END wiki -->



Do the same for all the other links you might have in the file etc.

This worked fine for me so thought I would share it with others incase they want it

[beggers]

Does anyone else have any problems with this mod? I've installed it and checked it several times, yet the [wiki] tags fail to make a clickable link. Anyone have any suggestions?

I decided to make my own Wikipedia BBcode just as a test. This code works, although the search term sometimes needs to be in the correct upper/lowercase, such as "Beatles". So if this code works, why not the original mod? I am baffled.

Just for reference, my simple Wiki BBcode consisted of this (not meant to be a fully documented mod):

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in bbcode.php add...

$bbcode_tpl['wiki'] = str_replace('{STRING}', '\\1', $bbcode_tpl['wiki']);

// [wiki]string for wiki[/wiki] code..
$patterns[] = "#\[wiki\](.*?)\[/wiki\]#si";
$replacements[] = $bbcode_tpl['wiki'];

in bbcode.tpl add...

<!-- BEGIN wiki --><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/{STRING}" target="_blank" class="postlink">{STRING}</a><!-- END wiki -->

[beggers]

Okay, I did get the original mod working but I had to insert the author's code in a different place.

However, the biggest drawback of this mod is that it only allows a single word to be sent to Wikipedia. This means that common multi-word searches like "John Lennon" or "gold coins" fail, despite the fact that the information is there.

Right now if I enter "strawberry fields forever" this mod builds the following link:

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/strawberry+fields+forever

The correct link would be:

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/strawberry_fields_forever

If the search terms were connected with underscores, all the multi-word examples I mentioned would work. How about a fix for this?

[guylon]

Yeah, this flaw is quite disturbing, anyone would offer something to fix this?

edit: since it's the limitation of urlencode, I guess you'll just have to input the wiki with "_" not spaces. Besides, Don_Juan is available in wiki but not Don_juan.

[Serlio]

I think I've solved the bug. You should replace, in includes/bbcode.php:

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$bbcode_tpl['wiki'] = str_replace('{QUERY}', "' . urlencode(str_replace('\\\"', '\"', '\\1')) . '", $bbcode_tpl['wiki']);

by

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$bbcode_tpl['wiki'] = str_replace('{QUERY}', "' . urlencode(str_replace(' ', '_', str_replace('\\\"', '\"', '\\1'))) . '", $bbcode_tpl['wiki']);

(there could be several lines including similar code depending on the number of languages for wikipedia you have included; you should make the corresponding change for each line).

[beggers]

Serlio, you are da man! It works great now. Thanks.