wiki:RegexLinkPlugin

Version 10 (modified by anonymous, 15 years ago) (diff)

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Turn anything matching a certain regex into a link

Description

A disadvantage of using InterWiki to link to external pages is that the user has to put a prefix before the link, for example MeatBall:InterMapTxt.

In some cases, the actual text to be linked is distinctive enough to be turned into a link without many false positives. For example, TOPdesk service management software uses identifiers like '0811 123' for incidents. When text of this form occurs, it could be automatically rendered into a link to the relevant TOPdesk page.

The intention of this Trac plugin is to allow these kinds of links to be made with a minimum of configuration, based on a regex that matches the external identifiers.

Known issues

  • Unnamed groups in the regex cannot be used in the url

Bugs/Feature Requests

Existing bugs and feature requests for RegexLinkPlugin are here.

If you have any issues, create a new ticket.

Download

Download the zipped source from [download:regexlinkplugin here].

Source

You can check out RegexLinkPlugin from here using Subversion, or browse the source with Trac.

Example

in trac.ini:

[regexlink]
regex1 = \b(?P<topdeskyymm>\d\d(?:0[1-9]|1[0-2])) (?P<topdesknr>\d{3})\b
url1 = http://topdesk/query=\g<topdeskyymm>%20\g<topdesknr>
regex2 = \bexample(?P<exampleid>\d+)\b
url2 = http://example.org/\g<exampleid>

This means 0811 123 becomes a link to topdesk/query=0811%0123, and example123 becomes a link to example.org/123

(the topdesk url is not correct, this is an example only)

Recent Changes

16457 by rjollos on 2017-04-04 07:20:21
Remove intermediate directory
16455 by rjollos on 2017-04-04 07:19:36
Fix indentation
16398 by rjollos on 2017-03-25 09:48:50
Remove dist directories
(more)

Author/Contributors

Author: ComaVN?
Contributors: