Question2Answer Q&A - Recent questions tagged word

Update Plugin: Lang Filter (V1.0.1)

Sat, 20 Apr 2013 20:00:08 +0000

This plugin replace specific word of lang system of Q2A at once.
Refer to readme in download-file for description.

The phrase of Q2A are taken out from lang file in following order.

qa-lang/custom/qa-lang-*.php
qa-lang/(language code)/qa-lang-*.php
qa-include/qa-lang-*.php

When changing expression, it is best to correct lang souce file. But this plugin may be useful when changing words and phrases at once easily. In addition, this version changes word simply by str_replace of PHP. if this plugin is helpful also to heavy users of Q2A, It may be better to also add replace function by regular expression(preg_replace), And, Since the dictionary used for conversion is cached on memory, risk of performance worsening is minimum.

Screen shot 1: admin -> plugins
Screen shot 2: admin -> plugins -> options (default)
Screen shot 3: admin -> plugins -> options (after setting)
Screen shot 4: page view

Compatibility

1.5.x, 1.6.x, 1.7 (2014/12/19 Updated)

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Best regards.

How to replace a word with a link automatically?

Sun, 26 Aug 2012 05:45:08 +0000

I want to replace a word with a link automatically.

I want something similar to WPMU Automatic Links but for q2a

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wpmu-automatic-links/

Is this possible?

Data too long for column 'word' error on long URL in question

Wed, 20 Jun 2012 11:57:22 +0000

I've got a user that posted a very long URL as text into a question body. When Question2Answer parses the message, it inserts every word from the message into the qa_words table but this very long URL exceeds the length constraints for the word field in the table so that process pops an error (see below for the error).

My preference would be to (in no particular order):

Not pop this rather detailed error message to the user but instead swallow it and perhaps log it (maybe send an email to an admin) instead.
Have the word parsing routine test the length of each word before attempting to add it to avoid the error all-together - I'd rather lose some indexing capability on obvisously non-sensical words than lose all indexing for a particular question.
Have the word parsing routine recognize URL's and skip them during this indexing process.

I've alread recommended to the user that he use TinyUrl (or some other algorithm) or post the URL as a embedded URL on some label text in the message instead but I'd rather avoid the problem no matter what the user does.

By the way, when I tried to add the URL as a link on some label text, I couldn't - the form wouldn't let me hit the OK button on the link dialog after I'd pasted in the long URL.

Pops a very nice, detailed error message (great for an admin, probably not so great for exposing the underbelly of the machine - yes, I get its open source for everyone to see already.):

Question2Answer query failed:

INSERT INTO qa_words (word) VALUES <values removed for brevity, including the long URL>

Error 1406: Data too long for column 'word' at row 66