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Clough · Aug 24, 2009, 11:36 PM

Hi, All!

What does it mean to "parse links in text", please?

That could be for this site or on other ones.

Thanks!

Curlyben · Aug 25, 2009, 02:14 AM

Means the test becomes the link.
So rather than:

Click here ( http://www.whatever.com)

It becomes

click here

Make sense ?

Clough · Aug 25, 2009, 02:50 AM

Is that like the tiny url thing? Or, is it something different?

Thanks!

Curlyben · Aug 25, 2009, 03:08 AM

Nope simply making the words into the link and making them active.

Unknown008 · Aug 25, 2009, 03:33 AM

Hey Ben, I've seen that somewhere on AMHD, I mean, the how to parse a link, perhaps in the 'help' link, but I can't find it anymore?

EDIT: Oh, I just tried to quote you, and I could see what you did. :)

Clough · Aug 25, 2009, 03:57 AM

Here's a parse links test.

This is All About Google.

Is that what you mean, Ben?

Thanks!

Curlyben · Aug 25, 2009, 04:00 AM

Yeppers

It also means that any www links, non-phased are simply text to the site, where as Phasing makes the link active, i.e. clickable.

Code:

www.NONphased.com
www.phased.com

Make even more sense?

Clough · Aug 25, 2009, 04:21 AM

I'll have to check these things out later, Ben! Got to get to bed, now!

Thanks!

PatrickMc · Nov 10, 2009, 08:57 AM

To see how the links are parsed, have a look at this open source script - http://www.biterscripting.com/SS_URLs.html . It is probably not the same language, but I am certain the algorithm is similar.