Link twitter user names

[Cowboy]

Hello,

I found a WP plugin that automatically links twitter user names like @name in blog posts and/or comments to the user's twitter profile at twitter.com/name. Is something like that possible in s9y? The twitter plugin is not able to do this.

A second thing is link a commenter's name with his twitter profile, if it can be found via email address. I saw this in another blog, with an option box to switch linking to twitter on or off. The link was realized by a twitter icon behind the name. How can this be done in s9y?

[garvinhicking]

Hi!

I believe you could easily do that with the "Regular Expressions" event plugin (serendipity_event_regexpmarkup). You can store a file "twitter.php" inside the plugins/serendipity_event_regexpmarkup/ directory that should look like:

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<?php
$regexpArray = array(
    'SearchArray' => array("/@([\w]+)/i"),
    'ReplaceArray'=> array('<a href="http://www.twitter.com/\1">\1</a>')
);

(I've now also committed that file to the plugin, should be available shortly in spartacus)

A second thing is link a commenter's name with his twitter profile, if it can be found via email address. I saw this in another blog, with an option box to switch linking to twitter on or off. The link was realized by a twitter icon behind the name. How can this be done in s9y?

Is that really done by email address? I think it would then require a Twitter API lookup, that could be harder to implement... Maybe we can push Grisha on this?

Regards,
Garvin

[Cowboy]

Hey, thanks! I'll try it with that plugin, it looks simple.

For the second question: The text box label was about "Email-Adresse zum Twitter-Profil verlinken" ("Link email address to twitter profile") The blog where I found this is styled with a new theme, in which that feature isn't implemented anymore.

[blog.brockha.us]

hmm.. I have to look, if I can manipulate this link. Seems to be a nice idea, to link the name with a twitter acc. If this is possible for a plugin, the microblogging plugin seems to be the right place for it.

I will have a look into that.

[stm999999999]

You can store a file "twitter.php" inside the plugins/serendipity_event_regexpmarkup/ directory that should look like:

(I've now also committed that file to the plugin, should be available shortly in spartacus)

hm, this new regex interferes with a private plugin of mine (serendipity_event_email_bot_OBFUSCATOR) witch makes mail-adresses clickable and have the possibility to obfuscate them with various methods. (in the moment I cannot publish it, because I am unsure about the licence).

But what this post is about:

in the moment I have deleted the twitter.php, but the next plugin-update it will be there again.

Would it be a good idea to have a option in the egexpmarkup-plugin to enable/disable the xxx.php-Files in the plugin directory?