Request [monster][ / monster] bbcode

[harmor]

It would be nice to have a bbcode tag that would create a link the PRD for the monster name.

Example:

[monster]Black Pudding[/monster]

would be replaced by:

Black Pudding

The link above is to the monster by the same name in the official PRD on this site.

The possible values would be on this page: http://paizo.com/pathfinderRPG/prd/monsters/monsterIndex.html

[monster]Bear, Dire[/monster]
and
[monster]Dire Bear[/monster]

could be syntactically identical.

[Mark Moreland]

Even more useful might be a [prd][/prd] code which would autolink to the associated page on the PRD, thus we could easily link to classes, spells, magic items, feats, and skills, without needing to open up two windows. Probably a coding nightmare, though.

[Me'mori]

Would the [url=][/url] code not serve the same purpose?

[Mark Moreland]

Me'mori wrote:

Would the [url=][/url] code not serve the same purpose?

Yeah, but then you have to have the url on hand, and that requires a new window or tab, and there's no easy link from any page to the prd, so you can't just click a link. You have to type it in or go to your bookmarks or go to the Pathfinder RPG page and then the resources page. I want Vica and Gary and Ross to make their fancy "servers" to all the "work" for me since I'm "lazy."

[Me'mori]

I hear that. I still have not figured out that "positional" linking I've seen some do.

[Quandary]

Hey, I was just going to post that they should NOT do this,
the #1 goal is getting search working, and focus on that until it's done :-)

But i hadn't heard of this positional linking thing, so I thought i'd try some things.
If after the 'url=' part you drop the http:www.crap.crap stuff, and just put 'url=/...' you can just reference the part of the paizo site you want, for example: 'url=/prd' results in:this... which is signifigantly shorter. And you can of course do '/prd/monsters/animatedObject.html' for this. That works even though /prd is actually a 'shortcut' to /pathfinderRPG/prd.

FYI