Seredipity default event_s9ymarkup plugin breaking URLs that contain underscores

nospam@example.com (Daniel Lange) — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 11:30:00 +0000

The default Serendipity mark-up plugin (event_s9ymarkup) currently breaks URLs that contain underscores.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statler_%26_Waldorf

will end up

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statler%26_Waldorf

because of a faulty regex. Garvin Hicking does not really want to fix this. (See this s9y support forum article for arguments pro/contra fixing it). So if you encounter this problem, your options are:

replace _ in URLs with %5F (aka manually urlencode it)
remove the plugin or disable it
patch the plugin

Patching is basically changing

plugins/serendipity_event_s9ymarkup/serendipity_event_s9ymarkup.php:

$text = preg_replace('/\b_([\S ]+?)_\b/','\1',$text);

$text = preg_replace('/\ _([\S ]+?)_\ /',' \1 ',$text);

If you want to be writing things like "Haha[lol]" (which I have no real use for ...), extend the "\ " with whatever you'd like to be o.k. to delimit bolded words beyond blanks. It should only be symbols that are not valid in URLs (so none of "$-_.+!*'()," which are all valid in URLs according to RFC 1738).

You may also want to consider replacing one underscore ("_") with two or more ("__") to make the detection, that you actually wanted to write bold text, more reliable.

Serendipity plugin livesearch does not work with bulletproof template

nospam@example.com (Daniel Lange) — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 21:09:25 +0000

The Livesearch (Javascript iterative search) plugin to Serendipity (s9y) currently does not work with the Bulletproof template active.

Matthias Mees (YellowLed) and Don(ald) Chambers are looking at it.

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Seredipity default event_s9ymarkup plugin breaking URLs that contain underscores

Serendipity plugin livesearch does not work with bulletproof template