CB Replacer Bot - syntax

micheleq
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10 months 1 week ago #337239 by micheleq

CB Replacer Bot - syntax was created by micheleq

Hello,
I'm having trouble figuring out the syntax for my replacement.
The goal is to insert Wikipedia links at the bottom of articles. I've been given a spreadsheet with different entries for each article (hundreds, close to 1000 entries.)
My idea is to enter them as an expression to be replaced e.g.

Code:

{wp = The Beatles, Liverpool, John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, Ringo Starr}

And generate the output:

Code:

<ul>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The Beatles" target="_blank">The Beatles</a></li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liverpool" target="_blank">Liverpool</a></li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John Lennon" target="_blank">John Lennon</a></li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul McCartney" target="_blank">Paul McCartney</a></li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George Harrison" target="_blank">George Harrison</a></li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ringo Starr" target="_blank">Ringo Starr</a></li>
</ul>

From the spreadsheet, I can enter them through a query to the appropriate article, that's not a problem.
I'm failing on creating the replacer code.
I'm using PHP to split the expressions using the commas (,) and create the output, which works fine as PHP but I can't get it to work in the replacer
In the 'From' box I've tried (with REGEXP and Code (PHP) on) :

Code:

/\{wp =(.+)\}/

And the PHP code that works is:

Code:

<?php
$keywords = preg_split("/[,]+/", $1);
$textoutput = "<ul>";
foreach ($keywords as $link) {
$link = ltrim($link);
$textoutput .= "<li><a href='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/" . $link . "' target=_blank >" . $link . "</a></li>";
}
$textoutput .= "</ul>";
echo $textoutput;
?>

How can I get this to work?
Thank you!
Tomás

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10 months 1 week ago #337241 by micheleq

Replied by micheleq on topic CB Replacer Bot - syntax

As an update, this is where I'm stuck.
I have in the "From" box

Code:

/\{wp =(.+)\}/

In the "To" box

Code:

$wiki = '$1';
$textoutput = "<ul>";
$keywords = preg_split("/[,]+/",  $wiki);
foreach ($keywords as $link) {
     $link = ltrim($link);
     $textoutput .= "<li><a href='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/" . $link . "' target=_blank >" . $link . "</a></li>";
}
$textoutput .= "</ul>";
echo $textoutput;

My output is:

Code:

<ul>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ The Beatles, Liverpool, John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, Ringo Starr" target="_blank"> The Beatles, Liverpool, John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, Ringo Starr</a></li>
</ul>

But if I replace

Code:

$wiki = '$1';

with

Code:

$wiki = ' The Beatles, Liverpool, John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, Ringo Starr';

Then I do get what I'm looking for, which is:

Code:

<ul>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The Beatles" target="_blank">The Beatles</a></li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liverpool" target="_blank">Liverpool</a></li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John Lennon" target="_blank">John Lennon</a></li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul McCartney" target="_blank">Paul McCartney</a></li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George Harrison" target="_blank">George Harrison</a></li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ringo Starr" target="_blank">Ringo Starr</a></li>
</ul>

It seems I can't process the string to an array from the regexp string ($1) but if I use that exact text (forced) as the string, it delivers fine.

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10 months 1 week ago #337245 by krileon

Replied by krileon on topic CB Replacer Bot - syntax

CB Replacer Bot is just using preg_replace when "Is REGEXP" is set to "Yes". That's basically it. From is the $pattern, To is the $replacement, and the article is the $subject. So for that usage you'd need to keep that in mind.

When "Process "To" Code (PHP)" is set to "Yes" to runs "To" through PHP processing and expects it to be PHP. This is done before it does the replacement. So if "Is REGEXP" is "Yes" then the result of your PHP is passed as the $replacement for the preg_replace.

Your PHP code has access to the following variables: $context, $content, $input

$content is the the article object in the case of using this inside of a Joomla article. To get the article contents you'd use $content->text and perform whatever PHP you need on it. In short "From" just becomes a matcher and your PHP is entirely responsible for parsing the text and returning whatever you're wanting it to return.

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10 months 6 days ago #337262 by micheleq

Replied by micheleq on topic CB Replacer Bot - syntax

Hi Kyle,
Thanks for the detailed clarification. I understand now that the PHP code is processed BEFORE the replacement. That was why I couldn't get it to work.
I got it to work with PHP getting the article text ($content->text), processing it and then the replacement worked perfectly.
Thank you,
Tomás

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