Automatic Acronyms

greenrift · 2004-05-02 00:57:19

This hasn’t been updated in a while. Though neither has Textile.

I just wrote this up while wondering there is no way to have common acronyms defined automatically. Stuff like XML, HTML, TXP, etc. You can still define their own acronym’s.

It isn’t really a plugin, but just replaces the classTextile.php file. What I added was a function (acronym($a, $t)) that now called everytime Textile finds an acronym. The other thing I changed were the regex’s in glyphs($text), I added 2 character acronyms (like UN), the ability to actually call my acronym function, and a cutoff range of 8 characters for an acronym.

The enhanced classTextile.php can be found at:

acronym_patched_classTextile.src

To add an acronym, go to the $acronym_list array and add the acronym you want in the form: ‘ACRONYM’ => ‘TITLE’,

Everything seems to work perfectly (atleast for me), it will disregard non-acronym’s that you haven’t defined. Speed wise it might start to take up a lot of memory as $acronym_list increases in size, but any suggestions on how to make it faster/better would be appreciated.

Automatically title acronyms:
acronym_patched_classTextile.src

To install:
1. Rename “acronym_patched_classTextile.src” to “classTextile.php” (no quotes)
2. Replace current textpattern%/textpattern/lib/classTextile.php with your renamed classTextile.php (%textpattern is where you installed textpattern)

Last edited by greenrift (2004-10-24 05:34:19)

Remillard · 2004-06-09 17:18:21

Does this need to be updated with the 1.19 release since it’s a hack?

greenrift · 2004-06-10 02:06:49

> Remillard wrote:

> Does this need to be updated with the 1.19 release since it’s a hack?

Nope works fine for me on 1.19. The Textile library wasn’t changed at all between the versions, so as long as that doesn’t then it will work.

Hans · 2004-06-10 04:23:05

Beautiful. Excellent work, Greenrift. I will be testing this out tomorrow morning. You’ve read my mind.

Cantide · 2004-09-16 05:42:59

Greenrift, can you detail what was added to classTextile.php so we can add it to our classTextile.textilephp.php files? Thanks!

arakune · 2004-10-24 03:17:05

I’m very interested in this hack, but…. http://www.engineering.uiowa.edu/~mdpotter/acronym_patched_classTextile.src 404s :( Does anyone know where one can find a copy of it nowadays?

TIA!

~A.

codyjack · 2004-10-24 03:55:32

Check out http://greenrift.textdrive.com/projects

arakune · 2004-10-24 17:40:13

> codyjack wrote:

> Check out http://greenrift.textdrive.com/projects

Thanks so much! :)

Manfre · 2004-11-05 03:51:25

I am wondering if anyone could use a centrally configured list of acronyms to go with this mod. I’m thinking of adding an admin page similar to the links page under Content that would allow the addition and deletion of acronyms that would be used by this mod when it does its thing.

danielk · 2004-11-06 23:53:14

I would be all for a central list, if your offering. ;)

Manfre · 2004-11-07 08:58:35

Central Automatic Acronyms

danielk · 2004-11-08 00:24:01

For a test, it works great!

danielk · 2004-11-08 00:57:22

Not knowing a whole lot about PHP, would there be a upper limit to the number of acronyms that can be used with this? I was thinking that I could turn this into something that could output links with predefined locations, instead of acronyms and definitions. I dont think there would be a huge difference in functionality, so even I could figure it out. Since there would be a lot of pages (internal helpdesk), wanted to make sure it wouldnt cause problems.

also, excuse my ignorance if I’m wrong, but in the directions for the CAA, re:txplib_head.php:line 14, do there need to be 2 $ctabs, or can the first one be deleted?

Manfre · 2004-11-08 01:25:41

There really is no upper limit on the number of acronyms that this can support, but if the list gets large, then it will work a little bit slower. I don’t think it should be noticable, but then again I don’t know how many entries you have in mind.

The first one should be deleted. I forgot the ‘-’ mark. I guess a typo was guaranteed since I wrote it up at 4am.

greenrift · 2004-11-08 04:49:56

> danielk wrote:

> I was thinking that I could turn this into something that could output links with predefined locations…

So you mean something like TXPiki ?

I had a version that did it when Textile was run on an article, but the problem w/ that is you have to re-save all your articles if you change the predefinied links. The trade off, if you don’t ever change the predefinied links, is that you have a bunch of pointless db queries (and slightly slower speed).

Oh, and the regular expression could use work.

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