Conversion from link to text

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Conversion from link to text

« on: May 16, 2008, 10:31:42 AM »

small ?, in a custom module of mine, I'm using a parameter after a command. This parameter is the text of an item, which I use in a SQL query in a later process. But if I take the item from inventory and drops it right after the command, it show the text of the item as a link offcourse.

The big ? is then, is it possible to convert the link into pure text, cause when I use the linktext it wont find the item when I run the SQL query.

Weird thing is, if I save the linktext into the sql db, it looks like pure text, but if I choose to print out the parameter which are holding the linktext, it will show up as a link again.

this is probably a small problem, but I havent seen to figure out a solution yet.

thx in advance.

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Re: Conversion from link to text

« Reply #1 on: May 17, 2008, 11:46:43 AM »

The item references in AO are in the form '<a href="itemref://lowid/highid/ql">name of item</a>'

In the latest svn version of core('tools') you will find two functions; parse_item() and is_item(). parse_item takes a sing itemreference and returns an associative array with both IDs, the ql and the name. is_item() checks to see if the argument passed to it is an item. There is also a make_item() that takes lowid, highid, ql and name and returns an item string.

I hope that helps.


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Re: Conversion from link to text

« Reply #2 on: May 17, 2008, 12:43:39 PM »

exactly what I needed

thx alot


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