David Raynes

I wrote this plugin because I was feeling lazy. I did not want to track down the titles for all the pages I have linked to, so I wrote a plugin to do it for me. Introducing MTLinkTitles.

Download one of the following files, unpack it, and place link_titles.pl in your plugins/ directory.

• link_titles.tar.gz
• link_titles.zip

Usage example:

<MTEntryBody link_titles="1">

link_titles

• When this filter is applied, any anchor tag (i.e. <a href="blah blah">) that appears in the resulting text will be visited to gather the title of the page, which will then be added to the tag itself (e.g. title="Page Title").
• The titles will be cached with MT::PluginData so that once a title is found, no further HTTP requests need to be made. If the title has changed and you would like to get the new one, just browse through the mt_plugindata table and delete the row with MTLinkTitles as the plugin value and the URL as the key.
• If that doesn't work well for everybody, I'd be willing to work up another cache-clearing method.

Update (2003-06-08 11:27)

• No, this will not override existing title attributes.