Jari Member Posts: 1471 From: Helsinki, Finland Registered: 03-11-2005 |
Hello. While writing something on the web forums that needs references to the scripture I have used biblegateway.com passage lookup and the URL tag for including a link in the post. That allows you to quickly look up that passage being referenced. Like this: Isaiah 37:16 But adding those links is rather slow, it takes time to copy and paste and type. So I was wondering if any one had any ideas of some automated way for inserting such links? It would be very useful if you could just click one button to create a link to the biblegateway. I was thinking of plugin for firefox but I haven't made one before and I would not want to leave IE and other browser users without this. Well I may try to do something like this for jEdit - my favorite text editor. Any thoughts/links? ------------------ |
TallBill Member Posts: 298 From: St. Louis, MO Registered: 11-22-2002 |
Wouldn't it be possible to do something on the server side, perhaps akin to UBB code, so that you simply put, for example [bible]John 11:35[/bible], where clicking a link created by the UBB bracket code would then bring up a dialog with the contents of that verse (in this case, “Jesus wept.”). ------------------ "...prayer itself is an art which only the Holy Ghost can teach us. He is the giver of all prayer. Pray for prayer---pray till you can pray; pray to be helped to pray, and give not up praying because you cannot pray, for it is when you think you cannot pray that you are most praying. Sometimes when you have no sort of comfort in your supplications, it is then that your heart---all broken and cast down---is really wrestling and truly prevailing with the Most High." [This message has been edited by TallBill (edited June 22, 2007).] |
kenman Member Posts: 518 From: Janesville WI Registered: 08-31-2006 |
You would almost have to program that in the server side code to add that. I almost think that would be a neat project for those who do programming in python as python would be easier to work with the strings I like [bible]John 3:16[/bible] |
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Jari Member Posts: 1471 From: Helsinki, Finland Registered: 03-11-2005 |
Hey, you are right about the server side. But I'm looking for client side solution so that you and me can use it on every website/forum. Some Christian forums do have bible tags which is great. Maybe new CCN will have that too. In the meanwhile I'm trying to write this as plugin for jEdit, unless some one has better idea. ------------------ [VoHW] (Help needed) [Blog] (Contact) - Truedisciple (mp3) |
goop2 Member Posts: 1059 From: Registered: 06-30-2004 |
I actually type out my own UBB.  If you have the site bookmarked then it shouldn't take too long.. Then again you still have to look up what verse(s) you want. I normally type it from my own Bible anyway, because I have trouble with KJV. ------------------ |
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Jari Member Posts: 1471 From: Helsinki, Finland Registered: 03-11-2005 |
Goop, the good thing about biblegateway is that you can change the translation after you have clicked the link. 
It still needs to be able to parse the ref from among characters and not expect the copy to be a plain reference. Or maybe it's good enough and I should rather focus on making it standalone java runable. But I'm not sure how difficult that is. ------------------ [VoHW] (Help needed) [Blog] (Contact) - Truedisciple (mp3) [This message has been edited by jari (edited June 26, 2007).] |