Add-on /me

[Chris D]

This should be a relatively simple one, but I can't quite get there with it. I want to add a code so that it turns

/me would like to learn XenForo addons

into

*Yorick would like to learn XenForo addons



Now obviously this could be done, and relatively easily, by using a [me] bbcode, but that's just not the same. So then it occurs to me that since the http://xenforo.com/community/threads/bd-tag-me.6762 Addon works by using @ in posts, that it should be possible to do a /me, and would in fact be a lot simpler since there's no need to query the database for users, no need for options or an alerts system. But I'm not 100% sure on how to go about it.

 

[avi]

This would do ? - http://xenforo.com/community/resources/you-hack.66/ Not sure though

 

[avi]

actually what you are requesting is default in mybb

 

[Chris D]

This would do ? - http://xenforo.com/community/resources/you-hack.66/ Not sure though

It would presumably work but it's not exactly what I want. But I might be able to use it as a reference along with the [bd] Tag Me system in order to write my own.

actually what you are requesting is default in mybb

Hey it's default in mIRC too. As long as we're suggesting things that aren't what I want, maybe I'll just use that.

 

[bambua]

The difficulty with this vs. say in mIRC, in mIRC you are entering a command...in a forum setting your using some mechanism to do a find and replace in the post. That's why bbcodes have the opening and closing tags, it makes it easy to find the beginning and end in a programmatic way. The reason the @ addon works is that in general names don't have spaces in them, it makes it a lot easier to match. A multiple word command with only the first character to find it becomes very costly to look for.

 

[Chris D]

The difficulty with this vs. say in mIRC, in mIRC you are entering a command...in a forum setting your using some mechanism to do a find and replace in the post. That's why bbcodes have the opening and closing tags, it makes it easy to find the beginning and end in a programmatic way. The reason the @ addon works is that in general names don't have spaces in them, it makes it a lot easier to match. A multiple word command with only the first character to find it becomes very costly to look for.

That makes a lot of sense to me, except that aren't I only using trying to use a single word command with /me?

Here's where I am with this now:
I've gotten /me to work, but it only does it if there's a line of text before AND after it. Something to do with the regex query. I also think that I should be able to call the poster as the replacement text, but $message.username is coming up as undefined because it's, obviously, not global. So I need to figure out how to define that properly. And then this might eventually work.

 

[DRE]

Is this working in xenforo 1.2 yet.