Anyone for #hashtags..?

Mikhael

Not a big issue, but I'm curious as to whether anyone is writing a plugin to provide Twitter style hashtags instead of/as well as the usual tagging method? A lot of people find hashtags very easy and convenient to use, and there's no need for an extra input field (which many people can't be bothered to use). It would also go some way to loose multi-site 'integration' at the UI level for members. Just a thought.

chi1

This is kind of implemented already, actually. Hashtags seem to automaticly link to

/search?Search=#hashtag&Mode=like

Linc

Yup. #feature-request #vanilla2

Mikhael

Neat. I hadn't thought to try it! Thanks @chi1 and @Lincoln.

hbf

@lincoln i tried this on my forum and it did nothing. is there something that needs to be enabled specifically?

Linc

Have you not been copying config-defaults.php in your upgrades This must be in your config:

$Configuration['Garden']['Format']['Hashtags'] = TRUE;

Note that using Markdown as your formatter will break hashtags.

hbf

oh hadn't noticed that before. im relatively new to vanilla, but i really like the software so far.

I just turned it on, it seems totally disconnected from the discussion tagging system. is there anyway to tie them together?

Linc

No, they don't work together unfortunately.

x00

currently

#heading

You should make a space for heading

# heading

http://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/syntax#header

Pamela

Lincoln said:
No, they don't work together unfortunately.

is it still true with future 2.1 version?

Pamela

In fact it seems to work #hashtags now... even with Markdown inputformatter

but something like #hashtags

do not !

Linc

Yes, still true in 2.1. We've revamped the Tagging plugin, but still no #hashtag integration. It's not on the roadmap.

peregrine

Lincoln said:

Yes, still true in 2.1. We've revamped the Tagging plugin, but still no #hashtag integration. It's not on the roadmap.

can someone explain what hashtag integration means?

Do you mean entering a #newtag links to the tags in the tagging database and inserts the tag in the tagging database if it doesn't already exist?

if so I could probably modify the autolink plugin to do this.

UnderDog

peregrine said:
Do you mean entering a #newtag links to the tags in the tagging database and inserts the tag in the tagging database if it doesn't already exist?

if so I could probably modify the autolink plugin to do this.

Awesome! Something for the core! peregrine makes it and the Vanilla guys integrate it into the core :-)

nicepaul

I initially thought that a #hashtag would be a good way of linking to search results for that word, but it's not – it links to search results for the word with a hash symbol in front of it only

peregrine

nicepaul said:
I initially thought that a #hashtag would be a good way of linking to search results for that word, but it's not – it links to search results for the word with a hash symbol in front of it only

I think it used to work the way you wanted. I wonder if it is a bug or intentional.

underdog said
Awesome! Something for the core! peregrine makes it and the Vanilla guys integrate it into the core :-)

I wasn't implying what you say, but saying that I could change the plugin if enough people found that this type of thing was useful. It obviously would have to parse the entire discussion, but I don't think it would be too big of a performance hit.

peregrine

nicepaul said:
I initially thought that a #hashtag would be a good way of linking to search results for that word, but it's not – it links to search results for the word with a hash symbol in front of it only

@nicepaul

if you want to change the behavior (which I think is a bug). Here is a fix for vanilla 2.1.

in /library/core/class.format.php

you need to remove %23

from here

    // Handle #hashtag searches
            if(C('Garden.Format.Hashtags')) {
                $Mixed = preg_replace(
                    '/(^|[\s,\.>])\#([\w\-]+)(?=[\s,\.!?]|$)/i',
                    '\1'.Anchor('#\2', '/search?Search=%23\2&Mode=like').'\3',
                    $Mixed
                );
            }

and replace it with this

 // Handle #hashtag searches
            if(C('Garden.Format.Hashtags')) {
                $Mixed = preg_replace(
                    '/(^|[\s,\.>])\#([\w\-]+)(?=[\s,\.!?]|$)/i',
                    '\1'.Anchor('#\2', '/search?Search=\2&Mode=like').'\3',
                    $Mixed
                );
            }

MasterOne

@peregrine

That "bug" in /library/core/class.format.php is still there in 2.1b1. Can you explain what removing %23 does?

hgtonight

@MasterOne said:
peregrine

That "bug" in /library/core/class.format.php is still there in 2.1b1. Can you explain what removing %23 does?

%23 is the url encoded entity for #. Removing it will direct the search to the hash tag without # sign

MasterOne

@hgtonight

I think I do not understand, is it still a hashtag search if the hash is removed?

Maybe I should read up on the use of hashtags first, as I still have no clue on how to use it and what benefit it has.

hgtonight

The idea is that you can prefix a search term with a # sign and the formatter will automatically link to a search on that term.

It seems less helpful if it requires the # to appear in the search results. This mod gets rid of the # in the search query.