[Pmwiki-users] Intermaps - is there another way??

[Patrick R. Michaud]

On Wed, Jan 05, 2005 at 01:07:17PM -0500, Neil Herber wrote:
> I  have been trying to use an InterMap in my "localmap.txt" file that looks 
> like this:
> 
> MediaWiki       http://wikipedia.sourceforge.net/
> 
> What I really want to have happen is that any time someone enters 
> "MediWiki" it will be automatically linked to the external URL. However, 
> the markup requires a trailing colon and at least one non-blank character. 
> Is there any clean way to have "hot words" like MediaWiki link to external 
> URLs without any extra markup? 

Try the following in config.php:

Markup('MediaWiki', '<wikilink',
  '/\\bMediaWiki\\b/e',
  "Keep(\"<a href='http://wikipedia.sourceforge.net'>MediaWiki</a>\",'L')");

This is demonstrated at http://www.pmwiki.org/wiki/Test/MediaWiki .
I'll add a description of this to the Cookbook.

> I would classify these items as permanent WikiWords or automatic WikiWords. 
> I would prefer to manage them in an InterMap-like table, but a PmWiki page 
> would be OK too (and easier to edit!).

Would an array be okay?

$WordReplacements = array(
  'MediaWiki' => 'http://wikipedia.sourceforge.net',
  'Neil' => '/wiki/Profiles/NeilHerber',
  'Adobe' => 'http://www.adobe.com'
);

Also, one of the problems with "automatic words" is that *every*
instance of the words are converted, which can be quite annoying
if a name or phrase is repeatedly used in a page.  So, there
would probably need to be a way to limit the number of automatic
conversions that take place.

Perhaps another option is to remove the non-blank character
requirement from InterMap links, but continue to use the colon
as the distinguishing markup.  Thus, "MediaWiki:something" works 
as before, "MediaWiki" continues to be a WikiWord (if WikiWords 
are enabled), and "MediaWiki:" is an InterMap link that renders 
without the colon.  Similarly, "Neil" is an ordinary word, 
but "Neil:" is a link to the profile page that displays as "Neil".

Pm