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Edit_Case... New Plugin.
I've just finished testing a plugin that I wrote for a client. He has given permission for me to make this a public plugin, so thanks :)

Price? FREE!

What does it do?

In short, it will enable you to format the inputted data of specific fields, i.e;

Quote:
tHis IS a TEST


... would become (if using :ALL);

Quote:
This Is A Test


... or (if using :FIRST)

Quote:
This is a test


Its a pretty simple plugin, and I don't envisage any more features (not so much I don't want too, but more the fact I don't have any more extra time).

Setting it up:

Its pretty simple.

1) Download the plugin from this thread, or our site.
2) Install it into your LinksSQL installation (Plugins > Plugin Download > Browse)
3) Now, you need to click on the "edit" button next to the plugin itself. This will take you to the plugins settings. Once you are in there, you need to edit the FieldsToLowercase value. More details on this are below;

What do I put in FieldsToLowercase ?

I've tried to make this plugin as simple to use. In short, the value for FieldsToLowercase, needs to be a list of the fields that you want to format (i.e Title,Description,Contact_Name, etc). An example would be;

Code:
Title,Description,Contact_Name


... or if you want to get fancy Laugh

Code:
Title:ALL,Description:FIRST,Contact_Name:ALL



The ":ALL" and ":FIRST" parts of the field names allow you to decide if you want to;

:ALL - format the whole phrase, such as "tHis IS a TEST" would become "This Is A Test"
:FIRST - format the first charachter only, such as "tHis IS a TEST" would become "This is a test"


Not much more else to say, except, enjoy Cool

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Re: [Andy] Edit_Case... New Plugin. In reply to
Hi Andy,


I just downloaded the plugin from your ost. Uploaded it to the server and got this error when I clicked on install>

Unable to locate the Edit_Case.pm file in tar



Is this me, or is there a minor pb?
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Re: [nt6] Edit_Case... New Plugin. In reply to
I tried opening it, but couldn't, the file may be damaged.


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Re: [Andy] Edit_Case... New Plugin. In reply to
I managed to open the zip but spotted some problems in the code. If you turn on warnings (by adding -w to the shebang line) you'll get some constructive messages. I expect they will mainly relate to code such as:

Code:
$DEBUG ? print $IN->header() : '';

This says "If $DEBUG is true, print a header, otherwise define an empty string.". Perl will say something like "Useless use of string in void context" because defining an empty string is needless. It would be better written as:

Code:
print $IN->header() if $DEBUG;
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Re: [Jarrod] Edit_Case... New Plugin. In reply to
Sorry about that. Please try the attached version.

Quote:
This says "If $DEBUG is true, print a header, otherwise define an empty string.". Perl will say something like "Useless use of string in void context" because defining an empty string is needless. It would be better written as:

I guess it could be changed to that... but it doesn't do any harm :D

The reason it is there, is because I was doing some debugging during the development, and although I removed some of the output it was generating, I didn't bother changing the code structure for the debugging stuff Smile

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Re: [nt6] Edit_Case... New Plugin. In reply to
Hi. It should be fixed now.

I've also setup a page on our site, where you can download it;

http://www.ultranerds.com/...bin/details/100.html

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Re: [Andy] Edit_Case... New Plugin. In reply to
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I guess it could be changed to that... but it doesn't do any harm :D

Its a bit annoying though if you run it under mod_perl and get warnings everytime you restart the mod_perl server :-p
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Re: [Jarrod] Edit_Case... New Plugin. In reply to
I guess Tongue

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Re: [Andy] Edit_Case... New Plugin. In reply to
Andy what's mean this error ???

GT::Plugins (7636): Error running plugin PRE hook: Plugins::Edit_Case::add_link. Reason: Plugins::Edit_Case::add_link does not exist in Plugins/Edit_Case at /home/public_html/cgi-bin/admin/Links/Table/Links.pm line 88.

Stack Trace
======================================
Links (7636): Links::environment called at /home/public_html/cgi-bin/admin/Links.pm line 524 with no arguments.
Links (7636): Links::fatal called at GT::Base::error line 381 with arguments
(GT::Plugins (7636): Error running plugin PRE hook: Plugins::Edit_Case::add_link. Reason: Plugins::Edit_Case::add_link does not exist in Plugins/Edit_Case at /home/public_html/cgi-bin/admin/Links/Table/Links.pm line 88.
).
Links (7636): GT::Base::error called at GT::Plugins::_load_hook line 277 with arguments
(GT::Plugins=HASH(0x8498c24), PLUGINERR, FATAL, PRE, Plugins::Edit_Case::add_link, Plugins::Edit_Case::add_link does not exist in Plugins/Edit_Case).
Links (7636): GT::Plugins::_load_hook called at /home/public_html/cgi-bin/admin/GT/Plugins.pm line 98 with arguments
(GT::Plugins=HASH(0x8498c24), Plugins::Edit_Case::add_link, PRE).
Links (7636): GT::Plugins::dispatch called at /home/public_html/cgi-bin/admin/Links/Table/Links.pm line 88 with arguments
(GT::Plugins, /home/public_html/cgi-bin/admin/Plugins, add_link, CODE(0x848ba18), HASH(0x83b5ff8)).
Links (7636): Links::Table::Links::add called at GT::SQL::Admin::add_record line 456 with arguments
(Links::Table::Links=HASH(0x8411038), HASH(0x83b5ff8)).
Links (7636): GT::SQL::Admin::add_record called at /home/public_html/cgi-bin/admin/GT/SQL/Admin.pm line 121 with arguments
(Links::Admin=HASH(0x8407204)).
Links (7636): GT::SQL::Admin::process called at admin.cgi line 77 with arguments
(Links::Admin=HASH(0x8407204), db, GT::SQL=HASH(0x82dd48c), cgi, GT::CGI=HASH(0x82d3bb0)).
Links (7636): main::db_request called at admin.cgi line 55 with no arguments.
Links (7636): main::main called at admin.cgi line 23 with no arguments.


Thanks in Advance
Bye From Italy

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fabio: Jun 10, 2004, 6:35 AM
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Re: [fabio] Edit_Case... New Plugin. In reply to
Hi. Looks like you are using the old version. Please download the plugin from here: http://www.ultranerds.com/....cgi?query=Edit_Case. This is the latest copy Smile

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Re: [Andy] Edit_Case... New Plugin. In reply to
ok.... I'm installing right now


Thanks in Advance
Bye From Italy
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Re: [fabio] Edit_Case... New Plugin. In reply to
It's the same :

A fatal error has occured:

GT::Plugins (9555): Error running plugin PRE hook: Plugins::Edit_Case::add_link. Reason: Plugins::Edit_Case::add_link does not exist in Plugins/Edit_Case at /home/public_html/cgi-bin/admin/Links/Table/Links.pm line 88.

Please enable debugging in setup for more details.

I'm using Links SQL Version: 2.2.0


Thanks in Advance
Bye From Italy
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Re: [fabio] Edit_Case... New Plugin. In reply to
In Reply To:
ok.... I'm installing right now

Ok.

Your avatar scares me more and more, every time I see it Tongue

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Re: [fabio] Edit_Case... New Plugin. In reply to
Could you send over LinksSQL admin panel details? I don't understand why it is doing that, as that routine should exist in the plugin (I just double checked).

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Re: [Andy] Edit_Case... New Plugin. In reply to
This bug should now be fixed in 1.1 (available from the Members Area on our site).

Sorry about the delay in getting it out :|

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Re: [Andy] Edit_Case... New Plugin. In reply to
An idea to extend the plugin, which would make it more practical:
Usually the problem is with those users who write the Description is all (or almost all) uppercase. This should be fixed.
But in other cases the Description original case should not touched, since we don't want to affect unguilty users, right?

Therefore there should be an feature, to do the :FIRST feature action, if the Description has X percent or more uppercase letters.

It could work like this:
Description:FIRST:IFUPPERCASE:70%

It means, make all sentences starting uppercase letter, if the Description has more than 70% uppercase letters.


Not a difficult change, tough.

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webmaster33: Sep 9, 2004, 5:02 AM
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Not a difficult change, tough.

Its a freebie ;) I'm open to hacks... but at the moment, I simply don't have time to add new features to the free plugins :(

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Re: [Andy] Edit_Case... New Plugin. In reply to
Just released a fix for this plugin. You can download the fixed version here;

http://www.ultranerds.com/...bin/details/100.html

There was a problem with the :FIRST paramater being always called, which it shouldn't have been. Should all be fixed up now though :)

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Re: [Andy] Edit_Case... New Plugin. In reply to
BTW: you could show up actual version number of plugin on downlad pages like this:
http://www.ultranerds.com/cgi-bin/details/100.html

Users doesn't know which version is downloadable, and if they need to update the plugin.

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Its a freebie ;) I'm open to hacks...

I have a few free hours, so I could improve the script, but in that case I ask to place also my credit info & URL into the script & detailed info page.
It would be not a hack, but an improvement to v1.5.
Just waiting for your approval...

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In Reply To:
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Its a freebie ;) I'm open to hacks...

I have a few free hours, so I could improve the script, but in that case I ask to place also my credit info & URL into the script & detailed info page.
It would be not a hack, but an improvement to v1.5.
Just waiting for your approval...

Sure... anything that improves it :)

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Re: [Andy] Edit_Case... New Plugin. In reply to
Andy,

I posted the Edit_Case v1.5 release to you through PM for approval.
Tomorrow I travel away for 1 day, so I'm waiting your approval to release it now before I go to sleep.

Waiting your reply.

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Re: [fabio] Edit_Case... New Plugin. In reply to
I finished Edit_Case plugin v1.5 beta1 the day before tomorrow, but since tomorrow I was away, releasing today Smile

Features of Edit_Case plugin v1.5 beta1:
  • Plugin can change the case of specific fields. You can specify which fields
    to check, to uppercase ALL or just First case of whole paragraph.
  • Specific field texts can be changed even conditionally, for example you can lowercase a Description if there are more than 80% UPPERCASE letters.
  • Flexible, through simple admin config interface.
  • Seamless integration with LinksSQL
  • Debugging available

Changes in Edit_Case plugin v1.5 beta1:
  • Bugfix: fixed 'change_case' subroutine name back to 'add_link', to make v1.2 working
  • Improvement: code completely rewritten
  • Improvement: added feature to do conditional case format changes, based on percent of UPPERCASE letters
  • Improvement: more complete debugging
  • Change: option FieldsToLowercase renamed to FieldsToChangeCase

Commands listed in the FieldsToChangeCase option can be used like this:
Normal usage:
Title:ALL, Description:FIRST, Accomodation_Name:ALL, Resort:FIRST,Country
Conditional usage:
Title:ALL:IFUPPERCASE:70%, Description:FIRST:IFUPPERCASE:70%, etc...

1. part: Field can be like:
Title, Description, Accomodation_Name, Resort, Country, etc...
2. part: you can use :ALL or :FIRST to decide how the value is formatted.
3. part: (optional) - you can use :IFUPPERCASE to create conditional action
4. part: (optional, but required if 3. part is used) - this is a number (70) or percent number (70%)

Known bug: working only for Add page. Modify page isn't supported yet.


Enjoy this fine release.


Coming soon Edit_Case plugin v1.8...

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Quick update: Edit Case v1.5 beta2

Updated to Edit Case v1.5 beta2, since the debug option was left turned on by default.
Now is turned off.

Comments, bug reports, ideas are welcome.

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Re: [webmaster33] Edit_Case... New Plugin. In reply to
Works great Sly

Thanks for putting this together guys, its one of those things I have often thought of looking at.

There is one thing that I am seeing though, and that is that for some reason it seems to be returning the link title preceeded by a space.

I am using the Plugin in the normal configuration... ie:
Title:ALL, Description:FIRST

The Description seems to be fine, but the on the tests I did, the Title was returned preceeded by a single space each time.

Thanks again
Mark
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Re: [marker] Edit_Case... New Plugin. In reply to
Not sure if webmaster33 fixed this up; but you shouldn't need a space in your settings. i.e;

Title:ALL, Description:FIRST

..should really be;

Title:ALL,Description:FIRST

i.e no space between ALL , and Description.

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Re: [Andy] Edit_Case... New Plugin. In reply to
Andy,

Yes, I fixed this, so now it's allowed to have space between command items. In v1.8 there will be more freedom, allowing to have commands in different lines. V1.8 will be released today, likely.

So
Title:ALL, Description:FIRST
format, having space between items, is allowed.

Thanks for being so vigilant.

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The Description seems to be fine, but the on the tests I did, the Title was returned preceeded by a single space each time.
Thanks for reporting this bug!

Well, this may come from the core of the plugin, from the case changing part, which was not touched in the rewrite. But since this part is also needed to rewrite completely for v2.0, it will be fixed for sure in v2.0.
I may fix it in v1.8, but that would defer its release a bit.

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Re: [Jarrod] Edit_Case plugin v1.8 beta3 release In reply to
I just finished Edit_Case plugin v1.8 beta3 Cool

Features of Edit_Case plugin v1.8 beta3:
  • Plugin can change the case of specific field texts. You can specify which fields to check, to uppercase ALL or just First case of whole paragraph.
  • Specific field texts can be changed even conditionally, for example you can lowercase a Description if there are more than 80% UPPERCASE letters.
  • Flexible, through simple admin config interface.
  • Seamless integration with LinksSQL
  • Debugging available (2 level)
  • Add page & Modify page now both are supported

Changes in Edit_Case plugin v1.8 beta3:
  • Improvement: code reworked to make it more modular
  • Improvement: option FieldsToChangeCase in admin config now has Textarea to fill the rules, making more user editing space
  • Improvement: option FieldsToChangeCase Textarea in admin config now can understand commands separated into multiple lines (comma still required)
  • Improvement: introduced debug level 2 to display actual command list
  • Improvement (beta2): added support for Modify page, too
  • BUGFIX (beta3): "The Description seems to be fine, but the on the tests I did, the Title was returned preceeded by a single space each time." FIXED.

Commands listed in the FieldsToChangeCase option can be used like this:
Normal usage:
Title:ALL, Description:FIRST, Accomodation_Name:ALL, Resort:FIRST,Country
Conditional usage:
Title:ALL:IFUPPERCASE:70%, Description:FIRST:IFUPPERCASE:70%, etc...

1. part: Field can be like:
Title, Description, Accomodation_Name, Resort, Country, etc...
2. part: you can use :ALL or :FIRST to decide how the value is formatted.
3. part: (optional) - you can use :IFUPPERCASE to create conditional action
4. part: (optional, but required if 3. part is used) - this is a number (70) or percent number (70%)

Known bug: - BUG: (well, not really a bug, it works like this since v1.0) FIRST command
makes UCfirst the first char of the string, not by sentence. Sentence 2nd
and above thus start with lowercase.


Enjoy this fine release.

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Re: [webmaster33] Edit_Case plugin v1.8 beta3 release In reply to
Works great Sly

And the bug is certainly fixed... great job.

If you are planning on adding some extra features... can I suggest one Wink

I have the plugin set to normal use ie.... Title:ALL,Description:FIRST

But there are a handful of words/acronyms that are regularly used in submissions that I would like to be able to have specific case settings for.

How hard would it be to have an editable list of words that can have there own settings... for example something like:

Title:ALL,
Description:FIRST,
IBM:SPECIFIC,
BMW:SPECIFIC,
PHP:SPECIFIC,
SQL:SPECIFIC,
MySQL:SPECIFIC,
etc.

Maybe in a seperate list of specific requests... anyway... just a thought Wink

Thanks again for your great work

Cheers
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Re: [marker] Edit_Case plugin v1.8 beta3 release In reply to
Glad that works fine & that you like it!
I hope others will also like it.

Well, the idea is not bad to have word exclusions, which should have specific case.
It could be solved by adding a list of word which should be ALL UPPERCASED.
But I can't estimate when will I have free time to work on it.

Unfortunately I have to go back to work on other projects, and can not afford more freeware work now.
If somebody needs customization or urgent new features, I can do it as paid work.


Sometime later I may continue to work on v2.0 release.
Until that time, Suggestions are welcome for the v2.0 release.

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Konrad,

It seems that there may be an issue with this plugin Unsure
As I reported yesterday the plugin does its job well and titles and descriptions of submitted links were all being formatted (case wise) correctly.
However when I tried to validate the links that were submitted over the last day I found that for each link that was being accepted I recieved the error meassage:

Unable to validate link: 50295. Reason: Column Title cannot be left blank.

As soon as I uninstall the plugin I can validate all the links without an issue.

It seems as if the plugin is also being called on validation

Any ideas

Cheers
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Checking the problem soon.

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Thanks Smile
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In Reply To:
marker: However when I tried to validate the links that were submitted over the last day I found that for each link that was being accepted I recieved the error meassage:
Unable to validate link: 50295. Reason: Column Title cannot be left blank.
It seems as if the plugin is also being called on validation
Thanks for reporting the bug. Bug fixed now.
It was a feature I carried toward from v1.2. It was based on input from the forms parameters, while the admin validation feature gets the parameters from the admin validation form in a different way. Therefore at the validation point it didn't find the form values, resulting error.

I fixed it, so hopefully now will work fine.

Edit_Case plugin v1.8 beta4 release attached.
Please test it, and let me know if you still find any bugs.

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Hi Konrad,

Unfortunately it doesnt appear to have fixed the bug.
When validating I still get the following error for approved sites:

Unable to validate link: 49453. Reason: Column Title cannot be left blank. Column Description cannot be left blank.

And as before if I uninstall the plugin validation works fine.

I have tested it on 2 different installations... 1 running 2.1.2 and the other running 2.2.0, and both show the same error.

Cheers
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Re: [marker] Edit_Case plugin v1.8 beta4 release In reply to
Well I just checked the plugin. It works correctly.
I tested the plugin in the debug way, and tested by actually validating unvalidated links. The errors like "Column Title cannot be left blank" went away & validated the links correctly.

Are you sure your version is v1.8 beta4 ?
The v1.8 beta3 still had the bug. You should download the v1.8 beta4.

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Re: [webmaster33] Edit_Case plugin v1.8 beta4 release In reply to
Hi Konrad,

I apologize mate... I guess I didnt test it well enough Blush

I restarted my mod_perl server and all seems to be fine... I can only assume the previous version was still loaded after I updated to v1.8 beta4.

All seems to be working well... great job Smile

Cheers
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Re: [marker] Edit_Case plugin v1.8 beta4 release In reply to
Ah, so mod_perl was causing to use the old version Smile
That's the second time when mod_perl caused false bug reporting, because it needs restarted.
I should remember next time to ask bug reporters if they use mod_perl or not.

Anyway, I'm glad it works. Cool

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marker: However when I tried to validate the links that were submitted over the last day I found that for each link that was being accepted I recieved the error meassage:
Unable to validate link: 50295. Reason: Column Title cannot be left blank.
It seems as if the plugin is also being called on validation
Thanks for reporting the bug. Bug fixed now.
It was a feature I carried toward from v1.2. It was based on input from the forms parameters, while the admin validation feature gets the parameters from the admin validation form in a different way. Therefore at the validation point it didn't find the form values, resulting error.

I fixed it, so hopefully now will work fine.

Edit_Case plugin v1.8 beta4 release attached.
Please test it, and let me know if you still find any bugs.


Everything is well, nevertheless I can do so that pluggin does not work from admin panel?

There are phrases or words that necessarily must be in Capital Letters, for example: personal name, name of county, etc

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Jose Balza
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Re: [venezuelasite] Edit_Case plugin v1.8 beta4 release In reply to
What do you want to do with this plugin on admin panel?

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Re: [webmaster33] Edit_Case plugin v1.8 beta4 release In reply to
Hello,

I use your script and I have two question.

1. How to obtain all the characters into tiny ?

For example :
NAME@DOMAIN.COM
will give
name@domain.com

With ALL the first letter is in capital letter.

2. You think that it can be used to transform the character ( / ) with ( - ) ?

Thank you for your answer.

Mick
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Re: [mick31] Edit_Case plugin v1.8 beta4 release In reply to
 
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1. How to obtain all the characters into tiny ?

For example :
NAME@DOMAIN.COM
will give
name@domain.com

With ALL the first letter is in capital letter.

Strange, but this very easy feature is not supported yet in the plugin.
However you can easily do this using a global.

Code:
sub {
return lc(shift);
}

<%lowercase(Email)%>


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2. You think that it can be used to transform the character ( / ) with ( - ) ?

You can easily do this using a global.
Code:
sub {
my $input = shift;
my $from = shift;
my $to = shift;
return $input =~ s|$from|$to|;
}

<%replace(Description, 'from', 'to')%>
<%replace(Description, '/', '-')%>


Let me know how the globals work. Not tested.

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Re: [webmaster33] Edit_Case plugin v1.8 beta4 release In reply to
Hi,

Thank you for your answer.

But, that does not correspond to my need.

I would wish that script carry out conversion.
Thus, conversion would be made before the recording in the data base.
It is the advantage offered by script.

But, perhaps I did not understand the use of your global ?
It would be possible to use them in include_form.html ?

Thank you for your assistance.
Mick
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Edit_Case plugin v1.9.0 release In reply to
Just finished Edit_Case plugin v1.9.0 Cool


Features of Edit_Case plugin v1.9.0:
  • Plugin can change the case of specific input field texts. You can specify which fields to check, to uppercase ALL or just First case of whole paragraph, or lowercase all the field text.
  • Specific field texts can be changed even conditionally, for example you can lowercase a Description if there are more than 80% UPPERCASE letters.
  • Flexible, through simple admin config interface.
  • Seamless integration with LinksSQL
  • Debugging available (2 level)
  • Add page & Modify page now both are supported


Changes in Edit_Case plugin v1.9.0 (2006-01-30):
  • Improvement: added LOWERCASE command to be able to lowercase all input field text
    It should be able to work together with IFUPPERCASE conditional command.
  • Improvement: commands now can be also lowercase, too.


Commands listed in the FieldsToChangeCase option can be used like this:
  • Normal usage:
    Title:ALL, Description:FIRST, Accomodation_Name:ALL, Resort:FIRST,Country
  • Conditional usage:
    Title:ALL:IFUPPERCASE:70%, Description:FIRST:IFUPPERCASE:70%, etc...

    1. part: Field can be like:
    Title, Description, Accomodation_Name, Resort, Country, etc...
    2. part: you can use :ALL or :FIRST or :LOWERCASE to decide how the value is formatted.
    3. part: (optional) - you can use :IFUPPERCASE to create conditional action
    4. part: (optional, but required if 3. part is used) - this is a number (70) or percent number (70%)


    Known bug: - BUG: (well, not really a bug, it works like this since v1.0) FIRST command
    makes UCfirst the first char of the string, not by sentence. Sentence 2nd
    and above thus start with lowercase.


    Enjoy this fine release.

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    webmaster33: Jan 30, 2006, 6:48 AM
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    Re: [webmaster33] Edit_Case plugin v1.8 beta4 release In reply to
    Hello Webmaster33,

    The update works correctly, thank you.

    But, I worked a long time with your global and impossible to obtain a result.
    There is no error message.
    It does not display description.

    You have an idea ?

    Thank you for your assistance.

    Mick
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    Re: [mick31] Edit_Case plugin v1.8 beta4 release In reply to
    Which global?

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    Re: [mick31] Edit_Case plugin v1.8 beta4 release In reply to
    Oh, there is a bug in it:
    Code:
    sub {
    my $input = shift;
    my $from = shift;
    my $to = shift;
    $input =~ s|$from|$to|;
    return $input;
    }
    This should now work. Not tested tough.

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    Re: [webmaster33] Edit_Case plugin v1.8 beta4 release In reply to
    That does not give anything.

    It gives : DescriptionDescription.

    An idea ?
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    Re: [mick31] Edit_Case plugin v1.8 beta4 release In reply to
    The global is ok, just the template usage example was wrong.

    Code:
    sub {
    my $input = shift;
    my $from = shift;
    my $to = shift;
    $input =~ s|$from|$to|;
    return $input;
    }

    In template try:
    <%set Description = 'test'%>
    <%replace($Description, 'est', 'ab')%><br>

    So it prints 'tab' instead 'test'.

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    Re: [mick31] Edit_Case plugin v1.8 beta4 release In reply to
    This plugin does not work for greek characters. Any possibilities?
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    Re: [Taki-x] Edit_Case plugin v1.8 beta4 release In reply to
    I don't know too much about greek characters, but I think the plugin might be updated to support them.

    I can implement new features into the plugin, as paid job.
    You need to pay only if the asked feature is successfully implemented.

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    Re: [webmaster33] Edit_Case plugin v1.8 beta4 release In reply to
    Can I change with this plug the URL of the category?
    Form
    /aaa_bbb/index.html
    to
    /aaa-bbb/index.html