(Useless) Acronym vBcode

While browsing the web I came across a website that used <acronym> HTML4 tag, and finding the concept interesting, I decided to try out a vBcode tag for it.

I soon ran into an error with the <acronym> tag that was buggin' the hell out of me, so I switched over to the <span> tag.

Anyway, 98% of the people here might find this utterly useless, but what this does is allows somebody to type:

[acro]United States of America[/acro]
[acro]PHP Hypertext Preprocessor[/acro]

And outputted will be:

USA
PHP

This is different from the HTML acronym tag for it automatically does the ?acronymization? of the compounded term for you.

Upon hovering the word with your mouse, which will not be solid underlined but "dotted" underlined, the acronym full term will show up in one of those "alt" boxes.

The main convenience of the HTML and this acronym tag is that sometimes not everyone knows what an acronym means, if the acronym isn't well-known, so this will aid in clarifying things.

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If you feel inspired by this hack, feel free to click the install-button (inspired meaning, even if you didn't install it on your forum j/k)

[gmarik]

Austin Dea - nice to see my code spreading around.
Velocd - have you updated install_acronym.txt? Is it ok now with the "f" letter?

[Boofo]

Velocd, did you find a fix for this yet?

[Velocd]

I've been gone all day, sorry about the wait. I found the preg_replace() expression to do the job, and have updated the text file. Clear your cache if you are re-downloading.

[Erwin]

Interesting hack.