slink snippet

A snippet to make it easy to insert frequently used URLs into your posts (or even into templates), allows for a shortcut, a long text and a tooltip.

Just use something like [ [slink: g] ] to expand to Check regularly for more new snippets.

Please see the ReadMe file included in the archive for details of the parameters.

Step 1: Get the files (available above). Unzip and upload into your extensions/snippets folder.

Step 2: create your snippet_slink.dat file, as described below

Step 3: place a slink tag, with the appropriate parameters, whereever you want the output to appear

Step 4: rebuild the FrontPage(s).

This snippet uses the file 'snippet_slink.dat' in your snippets directory, which you provide.

Each line consists of 3, possibly 4, entries, separated by a vertical bar '|' (configurable).

Each line should have either:

<shortcut>|<text to display>|<URL>

or

<shortcut>|<text to display>|<URL>|<tooltip>

e.g e|eBay|http://www.ebay.com

or

g|Graham's Pivot Snippets|http://keellings.com/graham/software/pivot.php|Check regularly for more new snippets

Note: The <text to display>, which is what will actually be shown on the web page, can be left blank, or entered as * and it will take the same value as the <shortcut> name,

e.g google||http://www.google.com

The <tooltip> is any descriptive text you want, which will appear as a popup bubble when the reader hovers his cursor over the link.

2006/05/19 Singapore

• Tidied up the external file access mechanism
• Created an on-line demo to be sure the snippet is thouroughly tested
• some minor fixes

2006/01/28 Sentosa Island, Singapore

• major rewrite, thanks to lieeu
• Now supports various combinations of icon/link/text
• Works even if “allow_url_fopen” is false.
• Last ditch option to define strings inline in Snippet, rather than in data file.

2005/11/06 Sentosa Island, Singapore

• initial version