[The Geek]

Originally Posted by -=Sniper=-

thanks

just wondering would it not be better to look for "www." and "http"? if the word contains any of those chars then don't replace else replace?

also wondering would it be possible to run two instances of the hack? as I wanted to allow users to turn one instance off.

Hey sniper, because the www and http would require recursive checks that would be a nightmare performance wise to test. Just because there is a www in front of the word doesnt make it not valid. What would be really cool is to check for the existence of a <a but not a /a pattern. if that equaled true than it would mean you were sitting prettily in a link. Sadly that type of checking is VERY processor intensive. Another way of doing it is to extract all of the URLS, do the replacing and then put all the URLS back in. Once again though... this is pretty labour intensive.

I run in danger mode and have done for 2 years. I could count of the one hand how many links have been messed up in almost 100,000 posts. Still... you have the power of choice to be dangerous or safe (safe mode is slighlty slower as well as there is an extra call to remove insertions to account for spaces).

As far as running 2 versions. This is totally possible however it would require you to make a copy of the install file, change every instance of a setting in use from GAL_* to GAL2_*
You would then have to duplicate the replacements (though this could be optomized with an array merge).
I guess I am saying that yes... it could be done. But it would be a small pain. The good thing is that since the code is so small, it wouldnt require too much work.

Let me know if you attempt it