This module allows you to use acronyms in your content with specific behavior. An acronym is usually a letter combination symbolizing one or a few words. An example could be the acronym ‘EE’ for ‘ExpressionEngine’ or ‘AOL’ for ‘America Online’.

With the standard use of the module an acronym in your content that matches an acronym definition as defined in your list will be displayed underlined. When the user places the cursor over the acronym the cursor will transform into a question mark and the acronym description will appear in a title box.

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Acronym Change Log

Version 1.5.1 (June 16, 2008)

New install of 1.6.3 on EngineHosting.

I recently noticed my site’s performance was pretty bad. I activated some ExpressionEngine debug output and saw the Acronym module ran two queries for each exp:acronym tag being used in the templates.
So I had a look at the source code and made some modifications for better performance as advised in the ExpressionEngine developer performance guidelines at http://expressionengine.com/docs/development/guidelines/performance.html

You can get the optimized mod.acronym.php file in a zip archive at http://www.neverpanic.de/temp/mod_acronym.zip

I did a little benchmarking (the benchmark source code is still in the file, but commented - so if you want to run the benchmark on your own, go ahead):
On the page I tested, there were 9 calls to 1 acronym group, time elapsed for this with the original module 0.47111 seconds, time elapsed with my optimized module 0.06547 seconds.
That’s roughly a 86% drop.

I guess you’d probably want to update your module accordingly, so others can benefit from the optimizations aswell.

I would have notified you using the contact form, but I can’t attach PHP files and it seems the contact form blocks submissions with URLs (ever thought of using the freeform_module_validate_end hook in the Akismet extension for spam checking? I hacked that into my Akismet extension - it’s messy though).

A client is looking for something like this, but one that will create a link to a definitions, (or something, even another weblog for definitions), more like a phrase recognition)

ie” Nappa Valley”
Becomes a link automatically linking to an entry/definition. Not much like Acronym, maybe more like tags?
Anything that can be made to do that?
Thanks

7: [Mon May 05 14:58:46 2008] [error] [client 76.175.237.24] PHP Notice: Undefined variable: replace in /.../modules/acronym/mod.acronym.php on line 52, referer: example.com/articles/item/62906/
8: [Mon May 05 14:58:46 2008] [error] [client 76.175.237.24] PHP Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /.../modules/acronym/mod.acronym.php on line 52, referer: example.com/articles/item/62906/

can someone shwo me examples of a website using the Acronym module ?

Kind regards,
Michel

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P.S. I use the Acronym plugin also, it works correctly (but I don’t want to use FTP). So, that is not an issue connected with the system.