Module: TextformatterTwitterReplace

[Joss]

if someone can check I have done this right, I would be obliged as I ain't no module developer!

This is a very simple text formatter that looks for @ and # and adds the appropriate links to twitter.

 

So, @profile will become http://www.twitter.com/profile and #searchterm will become http://twitter.com/search?q=searchterm

 

It uses preg_replace as a quick and dirty solution rather than the Twitter API - so no apps need to be created and so on.

https://github.com/jsanglier/TextformaterTwitterReplace

Obviously, if you use @something and #something regularly and DONT want them linked, then this is useless for you. But quite nice for blogging purposes

Unsolicited thanks to Netcarver because I nicked one of his modules to work out how to do it 

Joss

[kongondo]

Hey, your first module! Great stuff!

[Joss]

Thanks - but don't hold your breath for a run of them  

Loads of ideas, no skill!

[Mike Rockett]

Great stuff, Joss

I think that your expressions could be a little more specific to the type being checked for. For example, usernames are only allowed numbers, letters, and underscores. So that expression can be changed to: /[a-z0-9_]/i (note that I've removed the caps and added the case-insensitive flag on the end there). As for hashtags, those are a lot more complex. I don't think I'd be able to explain what on earth this is (I'm no regex junkie). Guess /(#\w+)/ would also suffice.

[Joss]

Yeah, I copied and pasted the regex - it has always been greek to me.

Of course, I can't make it completely fool proof - for instance a username that does not exist! "Did you mean....?"

[Mike Rockett]

Hehe, well, it's a step in the right direction. ;-)

[suntrop]

Nothing special about your module, but I think twitter only uses https. You can avoid a redirect, if you replace the http://. And – maybe its just me – you could add a config where users can choose whether links will open in a new window or not.

Ahh … one more: adding a css class will make it possible to address those links.

However, thanks for that module. I'll use it in an upcoming website

[Joss]

Changed to https (serves me right for copying and pasting!)

There are probably a few config options that could be added. 

Adding a class is a nice one if someone wants to open in a popup of some sort and wants to target it with jquery, for instance.

I might have another poke at it next week