PmWiki | Cookbook / LazyWebLinks

Summary: Cause markup text beginning with "www." to be automatically converted into a link to an external site

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Categories: Links, Editing

Goal

Cause markup text beginning with "www." to be automatically converted into a link to an external site.

Solution

Add the following code to a local customization file:

Markup('lazyweb','<wikilink', "/\\bwww\\.[^\\s$UrlExcludeChars]*[^\\s.,?!$UrlExcludeChars]/e", "Keep(MakeLink(\$pagename,'http://$0','$0'),'L')");

Discussion

This recipe causes any text beginning with "www.", such as www.pmwiki.org, to be automatically converted to an http-link to an external site. This recipe has been enabled on this page to allow experimentation.

Does this recipe "play nicely" with Approve URLs? Doesn't seem to be working below... --Peter Bowers July 18, 2010, at 01:55 PM

See PITS:00036 (Main.ApprovedUrls doesn't work with Cookbook.LazyWebLinks). --Petko July 18, 2010, at 03:16 PM

Contributors

jr, Jun-16-2004
Pm, Jun-16-2004

Sandbox

www.pmichaud.com
www.google.com
pmwiki.org
www.mysql.org(approve links)
- www.wikipedia.org
http://kiwiwiki.co.nz
abc.www.rare.com(approve links)