[d20pfsrd.com] New tool for 3pp

[d20pfsrd.com]

Are you are Pathfinder 3rd Party Publisher who frequently links your products to d20pfsrd.com? Mike Bohlmann of byswarm.com is and in order to ensure that the links he puts in his products are always correct, he took the initiative of creating a special tool for 3rd Party Publishers like himself (or anyone really) to use. This feature ensures that your links are ALWAYS correct, even if we move content around. While we've been doing that a lot less lately, it is always possible we may reorganize things from time to time which might break links in your products. We don't want your customers to be inconvenienced by broken links so this can help prevent that.

See this page for more information.

[Spes Magna Mark]

Interesting. I'll have to read that more carefully, because I'm not sure it made sense, which means it probably didn't. :)

[Jeremy Smith]

That's pretty spiffy.

[d20pfsrd.com]

Spes Magna Mark wrote:

Interesting. I'll have to read that more carefully, because I'm not sure it made sense, which means it probably didn't. :)

It just means that instead of directly linking to a page on d20pfsrd.com, you link to its alias on 3pp.d20pfsrd.com. When you link to the alias it doesn't matter how many times we move a page around, the alias is always correct. However, this is absolutely NOT required by anyone AND the chance of something (a link that is) becoming broken later is relatively remote. It could happen, and by linking to the alias you never have to worry about it.

Just a helpful tool to help make sure links embedded in PDF's (for example) always continue to work.

[Mike Bohlmann]

The collection of content at d20pfsrd.com is immense, over 10,000 pages. That's a lot of Pathfinder material! Hopefully this will help publishers know that a URL will work for a long time. :)

[Necroblivion]

This is a pretty huge win for everyone! Will there be an updated linkifier out there sometime in the near future?

[d20pfsrd.com]

Necroblivion wrote:

This is a pretty huge win for everyone! Will there be an updated linkifier out there sometime in the near future?

Linkifier as in, the perl script we use to auto link content? I didn't know you were using that? Not that you can't of course!

[Necroblivion]

Yep, that be the one!

[d20pfsrd.com]

We haven't changed the existing one in some time, though we do have two main versions, the one Vlad uses and the one I use. The one I use is in Google Docs, which I'm not sure if you have access to or not. In either case, if you want to use or modify it I can send it to you.

Oh yeah but remember that it links to the sites.google.com address which Sites auto translates into d20pfsrd urls. If you use it to link other content you'll want to either do a big find and replace after you run it to swap out the sites urls or edit the perl script so that it just directly uses d20pfsrd urls.