Ability to Create Links to Another Page and then Create that Page

[csharpfritz]

Ability to Create Links to Another Page and then Create that Page

[csharpfritz]

Yes! This is the same concept as #38

[essenbee]

Here are my initial thoughts on this, without using Wikitext, which I am not sure I understand:

• allow authors to create links to internal CoreWiki pages using the normal Markdown [text](link) syntax (where the link does not begin with http/https) as they create/edit an article
• the code will take the user input for the "link" and use the FriendlyUrl() helper to create a slug in the format currently used, and replace what the user entered with this value
• on saving, use a regular expression to locate all such links in the article
• determine if the links already exist as slugs in the database
• present the author with the choice to create any articles that do not already exist, based on the above. User must be logged in to do this
• Basic page for the above. I am no UI developer, so my UI will be simple in all likelihood. Someone more skilled should style it and make it look nice

I am no regular expression expert. Here is what I have come up with:

(\[[\w\s.\-_:;\!\?]*[\]][\(])((?!(http|https))[\w\s\-_]*)([\)])

The expression is using grouping so that I can extract the various parts of matches in code. I should write unit tests that exercise the regular expression. Any help that someone can offer regarding polishing the regular expression gratefully received.

[c17r]

@csharpfritz #123 has been merged, so this should probably be closed.