Getting Pligg to Auto-Fill
Posted on Mon, May 12, 2008 by 
Geoserv
Late January of this year I attempted to get my Pligg install to auto populate the description of a story submitted on step 2 of the submission process.
This is the code I started with:
$description = preg_replace( ‘~^(.+?)content="([^"]+?)"(.+?)$~i’, ‘$2′, $matches[1].$matches[2] );
echo $description;
}
That obviously didn’t do the trick for me. It fetched the description of the story being submitted, but it would place it above my website, it was trying to make the description of my Pligg install.
I have been working on this off and on over the past couple of months to no avail. Thanks to a fellow Pligger, this mod is now a reality heres what you need to do:
- Open libs/link.php, find:
if( preg_match( ‘~~is’, str_replace( ‘»’, ‘:’, $this->html ), $matches ) ){
$this->url_title = $matches[2];
}below, add:
if(preg_match(’~<meta(.+?)name="description"(.+?)>~i’, $this->html,$matches)){
$description = preg_replace(’~^(.+?)content="([^"]+?)"(.+?)$~i’, ‘$2′, $matches[1].$matches[2] );
$description= str_replace("content=\"", " ", trim($description));
$description= str_replace("\"", " ", trim($description));
$this->content=$description;
}Save and close.
- Open submit.php, and find:
$main_smarty->assign(’submit_url_title’, $linkres->url_title);
below, add:
$main_smarty->assign(’submit_content’, $linkres->content);Save and close.
Thats it.
I have tested this on v9.8.2, and will later today test it on v9.9.0, it should work for any version though.
Submit a story, if the story being submitted, has the meta tag “description” filled in, your Pligg install will automatically enter it in the Description box on step 2 of the 3 step submission process.
Big thanks to Knight01 for his contribution to getting this to work. If anyone knows Knight01’s URL, post it below in a comment so a proper link to him can be posted.
Next, I will show you how to auto populate the tag field.
If you use this mod, or would like to show appreciation for it, please consider linking back to http://www.pliggs.com
Remember to backup the above files before making code changes.
UPDATE:
Here is my lib/link.php file that auto-fills, libs/link.php.
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Tags: auto-fill, content, description, meta, Pligg
May 13th, 2008 at 7:21 pm
Absolutely awesome m8 this is something i was looking for for a while
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May 13th, 2008 at 7:49 pm
For some reason the code characters are messed up that you posted above m8 just to let you know
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May 13th, 2008 at 9:23 pm
Lincoln,
I think I got it sorted out, thanks for pointing it out.
May 16th, 2008 at 5:12 pm
Still broken m8
if(preg_match(‘~~i’, $this->html,$matches)){
$description = preg_replace(‘~^(.+?)content=”([^"]+?)”(.+?)$~i’, ‘$2′, $matches[1].$matches[2] );
$description= str_replace(”content=\”", ” “, trim($description));
$description= str_replace(”\”", ” “, trim($description));
$this->content=$description;
}
June 24th, 2008 at 11:41 am
Hi,
Tried this on pligg 9.9. but not working getting error unexpected ~
anny solution?
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June 24th, 2008 at 9:14 pm
Send me libs/link.php, and submit.php and I will fix it.
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July 3rd, 2008 at 2:56 pm
Sounds nice.
I tried this but get the same parse error than Misterhappy above. I think it has something to do with the code in your post. It looks bit messy to me, maybe you should put it to txt-file and give us a link to download it. The problem is in the libs/link.php part.
July 3rd, 2008 at 9:04 pm
Pliggaz,
Good suggestion, I have updated the post to include a download of my own libs/link.php
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July 4th, 2008 at 3:30 am
Thanks for the download.
Have you tried this with version 9? It seems that it doesn’t work. The libs/link.php-file is quite different between older and latest version. I tried this with version 9 and the description field stays blank like nothing happened. Your file cannot be used because of the version differencies so I copied that description part from your file and included it to my libs/link.php. No errors but also no results.
It’s also possible that I’m doing something wrong but I think that the problemis the difference between version 8 and 9.
July 4th, 2008 at 9:20 am
I have only been able to get this to work on version 9.8.2, I’m working on v9.9.0 now.
I will hopefully have a newer version soon.
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July 4th, 2008 at 10:50 am
Great, thanks.
I’ll also try to make it work and let you know if I find a solution.