> 1. Automatically create links for URL.
> I'd like to be able to type in http://example.org or [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
> and have a link created to it.  If I use Textile, I need to do this as 
> "http://example.org":http://example.org - just wondering if there's a 
> tag I can use (else, I think I should just write it up).  I think Rails 
> has a function called auto_link that can do this for text content - just 
> need to think about any vulnerabilities that this may have.  I imagine 
> that this would only be a tag, no database backend needed.
>
>   
This sounds like a good candidate for a filter.  You could probably 
harness the helper modules in ActionView to use auto_link or 
simple_format in a filter.
> 2. Create links for known entities
> It would be good to have a mechanism that automatically creates links to 
> known entities.  For example, I'd like to set up SampleSite as being 
> http://example.org and then every time, I include SampleSite, it 
> automatically creates a link to http://example.org.  I don't want it to 
> be automatic (so we don't need to parse all the text) - it's good enough 
> if I have to pass the name to a tag.  I imagine that this would be 2 
> parts - 1 part would be a tab in the admin section allowing the user to 
> set up any of the pre-defined entities (I think the link_roll extension 
> points in the correct direction) and then a tag that allows the user to 
> get back the link.
>
>   
This sounds like an extension... take a look at the wiki on How to 
Create an Extension.  It explains how to create a LinkRoll, but the 
concepts are very similar.

Sean

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