Title: Making Everything2 Plugin, Have Question…
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# Making Everything2 Plugin, Have Question…

 *  [satoshi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/satoshi/)
 * (@satoshi)
 * [20 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/making-everything2-plugin-have-question/)
 * Alright, I’m working on a plugin that will allow one to use Everything2 [Pipe Links](http://everything2.org/index.pl?node_id=949820)
   in their posts (and soon, comments). After messing around with regular expressions
   and the like, I’ve got it pretty much working. You can check it out at [http://sugardeath.net/e2-pipe-linker-plugin/](http://sugardeath.net/e2-pipe-linker-plugin/)
 * The problem is as follows:
    [Crazy like a fox|I think you are insane] would produce
   a link to the “Crazy like a fox” node at Everything2 with the link text “I think
   you are insane.” The first bit of text has all the spaces changed to +’s to make
   it URL friendly. This first bit of text is also used in the title attribute of
   the A tag, but I can’t figure out how to grab that first bit AGAIN without the
   +’s.
 * The source can be seen at
    [http://sugardeath.net/wordpress/wp-content/plugins/e2pipe.phps](http://sugardeath.net/wordpress/wp-content/plugins/e2pipe.phps)
 * I have tried something like
    `$title = preg_replace_callback( '#([w[^]]+)|#','
   title_return', $content);` where the function title_return just returns the string
   with no changes, but whenever I call $title in ‘$content = preg_replace( ‘#\[(\
   w[^\]]+)\|([^\]]+)\]#’, ‘< a href=”[http://everything2.org/?node=$1&#8243](http://everything2.org/?node=$1&#8243);
   title=”$title” >$2< /a >’, $content);’
 * it just outputs “$title” in the title attribute no matter what I do.
 * Anyone have any ideas?
 * Now, keep in mind, this is my very first plugin for WordPress. This is also the
   first time I’ve done more than just mess with variables and such.

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 *  Thread Starter [satoshi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/satoshi/)
 * (@satoshi)
 * [20 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/making-everything2-plugin-have-question/#post-230226)
 * No on likes me -_-
 *  [skippy](https://wordpress.org/support/users/skippy/)
 * (@skippy)
 * [20 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/making-everything2-plugin-have-question/#post-230227)
 * satoshi: I don’t think it’s a matter of whether we like you or not. It’s a matter
   of “can we help you?”. And the answer seems to be no.
 * Regular expressions and callback functions are advanced topics, and beyond the
   scope of these forums. You might get help at on the WordPress Hackers mailing
   list, but I can’t guarantee it.
 *  [Ajay](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ajay/)
 * (@ajay)
 * [20 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/making-everything2-plugin-have-question/#post-230231)
 * Alternatively you may find help on good php help forums / websites with I guess
   better qualified php professional.
 * Unfortunately, you haven’t got a reply like podz above because we wouldn’t know
   what to reply :-S
 *  Thread Starter [satoshi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/satoshi/)
 * (@satoshi)
 * [20 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/making-everything2-plugin-have-question/#post-230233)
 * Heh, I know. I’m basing the “no one likes me” thing on the fact that none of 
   my other topics ever get answered either… Oh well, thanks for the help. I’ll 
   look into those. I didn’t know there was a WordPress Hackers mailing list. Thanks.

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