Stored Coding Plugin?

[jposemato]

So my forum is a role playing forum and we have an item system. Right now everything kind of works out however large blocks of coding is all over the place in the inventory, for example, an empty inventory space would be a line of text with an image and a large block of text that we simply just copy and past to create them and it makes the inventory ugly and an eye sore while in BBC mode for editing.

So the question here, is if there is a plugin, or if I could have help making one for 'storage' and 'calling' script. For example, in the plugin there would be a line for a name and a textbox area. Then when its name is typed it replaces it with the textbox's information. Like if the thing was Item1 and the textbox said :
[a href="http://s1269.photobucket.com/user/Jposemato/media/emptyitem.png.html"][img src="http://i1269./jj585/Jposemato/emptyitem.png" style="max-width:100%;"][/a]Than if I typed 'I was using Item1' it would instead say 'I was using '

It would make it incredibly simple and easy for the players to call items and for game masters to set inventories up. 

[Smangii]

This sounds a lot like using censored words... unless I am mistaken on what you said. You name the censored word something like [item1] and whenever that is typed into a post, it will reveal the content behind the censor, which you can put anything from large blocks of text to images. It acts as a "shortcut" to content, which is from what I gathered what you are looking for?

[jposemato]

That actually worked well for it. Is there a size limit to text stored in a censor? I don't have items full codes written out yet but I'd image it to be at least triple the size of that one above.

[RedBassett]

The character limit for each individual censored word is pretty high, so you should be fine. As for the number of censored words you can have, the theoretical limit for this is (again) high enough that you should be able to add as many as you want.

[jposemato]

Alright! Thanks guys! Feel free to close this one up.

[RedBassett]

Glad to help! Let us know if you need anything further

[jposemato]

Another quick question with a probably not so quick answer on this side. When using the censor as a replacement for my block of code, it works wonderfully. The problem is, if I have to go back and edit a characters profile to change things it once again looks cluttered and is a hassle to locate each individual thing. Is it possible to make it so the censored word gets changed back to its original word when editing a post? I'm still playing around with this and I'm not sure if I will figure it out before I get help or if its just not do able. Figured its always worth asking.

[Bennett 🚀]

Jan 4, 2014 9:17:42 GMT -8 jposemato said:

Another quick question with a probably not so quick answer on this side. When using the censor as a replacement for my block of code, it works wonderfully. The problem is, if I have to go back and edit a characters profile to change things it once again looks cluttered and is a hassle to locate each individual thing. Is it possible to make it so the censored word gets changed back to its original word when editing a post? I'm still playing around with this and I'm not sure if I will figure it out before I get help or if its just not do able. Figured its always worth asking.

This would require a plugin. My style tags as well as other ubbc codes I've made for my pokemon rpg have the same functionality you're looking for; so if you do deem you want that functionality, I can whip up a plugin for you.

[jposemato]

That would be absolutely amazing if you could do that for me. Itd be greatly appreciated!

[jposemato]

Any luck on that?

[Bennett 🚀]

Jan 11, 2014 6:56:45 GMT -8 jposemato said:

Any luck on that?

Totally forgot about this; I have it working to the point where it won't be parsed in a code tag, but I can't get it when it's not in some sort of element (a div, b, underline, center, quote, etc)! If you're okay with that and know you'll always be putting these snippets into some sort of element, then I'll hand the plugin over now.

[jposemato]

If you can explain how to use it thats fine, I don't really have the best grasp on code but so long as I know what gets filled in where it wont be a problem.

Thanks a lot for the help

[Bennett 🚀]

Jan 11, 2014 12:13:39 GMT -8 jposemato said:

If you can explain how to use it thats fine, I don't really have the best grasp on code but so long as I know what gets filled in where it wont be a problem.

Thanks a lot for the help

You'd use it how you normally would, it just has to be inside something ([div], [span], [b], [i], [u], [s], [font], etc). And in the admin panel, if you're using any sort of bbc in it, you'll have to convert that to html for it to display correctly.

[jposemato]

I don't quite follow. At the moment my template for inventory is literally just a pile of img tags and urls.

[Bennett 🚀]

Jan 11, 2014 17:47:22 GMT -8 jposemato said:

I don't quite follow. At the moment my template for inventory is literally just a pile of img tags and urls.

Okay. I'm gonna ask some other coders the best way to do this, and I'll get back to you