I do not like it when members on my site use abbreviations

[Dave]

Originally Posted by Simon Lloyd

You could always add a plugin with a simple replace for all those that get up your nose

You can already do that with the Replacement Variable Manager in vBulletin.

[CAG CheechDogg]

Originally Posted by Dave

You can already do that with the Replacement Variable Manager in vBulletin.

So how do you that if say I wanted for the acronym (CAG) always be capitalized if someone posted (cag) but it not affect a word like "cage" or "bird cage" or any other word that might have "cag" in it? ...

I ask because I used the replacement variable manager for this and it changed any word that had "cag" to "CAG" ...so the word cage became "CAGe" ...

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Oh one other thing .... it also affects file extensions as well ...most of my images have cag in them so it breaks images as well lol ...

[Simon Lloyd]

Originally Posted by CAG CheechDogg

So how do you that if say I wanted for the acronym (CAG) always be capitalized if someone posted (cag) but it not affect a word like "cage" or "bird cage" or any other word that might have "cag" in it? ...

I ask because I used the replacement variable manager for this and it changed any word that had "cag" to "CAG" ...so the word cage became "CAGe" ...

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Oh one other thing .... it also affects file extensions as well ...most of my images have cag in them so it breaks images as well lol ...

You'd have to use REGEX and get complicated with looking forward and back to check that "cag" is indeed a word on its own then replace it

[CAG CheechDogg]

Yeah I know lol ...I used the following two in plugins but it still didn't work as it should:

$find = array( 
'cag', 
'Cag',  
); 

$replace = array( 
'CAG', 
'CAG', 
); 

$this->post['message'] = str_ireplace($find, $replace, $this->post['message']);

and

$word = array(  
'/\cag\b/',  
'/\Cag\b/'  
);  

$changedword = 'CAG';  

$post['message'] = preg_replace($word, $changedword, $post['message']);

I used postbit_display_complete on both and it still changed it in words that had "cag" and also in images lol ... So I gave up

[Replicant]

Originally Posted by CAG CheechDogg

[CODE]
'/\cag\b/',
'/\Cag\b/'

try '/cag(?= )/'

[kh99]

Originally Posted by Dave

You can already do that with the Replacement Variable Manager in vBulletin.

You can, but I'd be careful about using that. As CAG mentioned, it does a replacement on the entire html document, so if you replace something that happens to appear in an html tag for example, you can break things.

[CAG CheechDogg]

Originally Posted by Replicant

try '/cag(?= )/'

Ok I will check this out and see what it does ...ty ...

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Originally Posted by Replicant

try '/cag(?= )/'

Good stuff my my Man this is working perfectly so far ... THANK YOU !!

[Replicant]

Originally Posted by CAG CheechDogg

Ok I will check this out and see what it does ...ty ...

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Good stuff my my Man this is working perfectly so far ... THANK YOU !!

Glad I could help.:up:

[TheAdminMarket]

Originally Posted by CarpCharacin

For some reason, it makes me mad. I had to edit a few posts today on my site to fix abbreviations. I think it is kind of annoying when forum members use abbreviations.

At least you can understand what that abbreviations means. The real problem is on international sites (just like this), when the native English members (much more if they belong to Staff) are posting with abbreviations or local sayings.

It tooks me months (actually I had to ask someone) to understand the meaning of "My two cents" or similar sayings. I was reading "OP" and thought that it means Operator while latest someone told me that means "Original Poster".

Especially when you reply to someone that you know that English is not his tongue, everyone must tries to use simple words and phrases. Forums (at all, not just here), it's not a place to promote your English level.

Addition: My father who died almost 30 years ago was Professor at Univercity. Still remember some words of him. "Educated is not that one who knows a lot, but that one who can talk to a farmer like a farmer, to a child like a child etc ".

[cellarius]

Not disputing your point at all. Anyway:

Originally Posted by NickTheGreek

It tooks me months (actually I had to ask someone) to understand the meaning of "My two cents"

Doing a simple google search brings up Wikipedia and the Urban Dictionary as results #1 and #2. Both explain it pretty well. And there's a ton of lists that explain usenet/internet acronyms like OP.

Especially when you reply to someone that you know that English is not his tongue, everyone must tries to use simple words and phrases. Forums (at all, not just here), it's not a place to promote your English level.

On the other hand, I always saw sites such as this as a pretty entertaining way to improve my everyday english, pick up idioms and so on.