Hi

I need, or looking for, a script that brings definitions of words in large tooltips when the word is moused over.
I need it for my invision board forum (IPB), so that whenever these words are posted, they get automatically tooltipped with the definition that I prepared for it in an external text file.

Please have a look at this example from Culombia Encyclopedia:
http://columbia.tfd.com/egypt

I need it to be able to show several lines of text, unlike html title tag's limitations.

Can someone please make me such script? be it javascript or php?
Or lead me to where I can find it?

Many thanks in advance

That looks like a DHTML job to me, I know nothing about it, but you can certainly use PHP to automatically generate it.

http://www.webreference.com/js/column16/index.html
doesnt seem to work in firefox though. Will continue searching for you.

This might help: http://www.milonic.com/menusample6.php

I found a good script, but I need help to chage its usage.
It basically uses a text file to search keywords, and if found it links the word with the url from the text file, and give the link a little definition. The text file has each keyword in a separate line in thae following form:

keyword|URL|definition

I need to remove the URL part, and replace the url with:
<u class=info>keyword<span>definition</span></u>
(It uses a nice CSS rule to give pure CSS tooltips)

Here is the php script:

PHP Code:

<?

/*

    Word2URL Modification (Version 1.52)
    Programmed by: primetime
    Module Id: 1060805578
    Bugfix: 001

    ------------------------
    
    This script cannot be distributed without the permission of the original author.
    
*/

    class Word2URL
    {
        function openData($txt)
        {
            global $ibforums;
            
            if(!isset($ibforums->input['preview']))
            {
                $i    = 0;
            
                $data = file('./mods/word2url.txt');
            
                foreach($data as $line)
                {
                    list($key[$i], $link[$i], $tooltip[$i]) = explode("|", $line);
                
                    // Clean up the data before we do anything nasty to it
                
                    $key[$i] = preg_quote(trim($key[$i]), "/");
                    $link[$i] = trim($link[$i]);
                    $tooltip[$i] = trim($tooltip[$i]);
                                                            
                    // Search the text for the "keywords" and auto-link them    
                    
                        if($key[$i] != "")                
                        {    
                            $txt = preg_replace("#\b".$key[$i]."\b#is", "[autolink]\\0[/autolink]", $txt);
                            $txt = preg_replace("#\[url.+?\[\/url\]#ies", "Word2URL::cleanUp('\\0')", $txt);
                            $txt = preg_replace("#\[autolink\]".$key[$i]."\[\/autolink\]\.com#ies", "Word2URL::cleanUp('\\0')", $txt);
                            $txt = preg_replace("#<.+".$key[$i].".+>#ies", "Word2URL::cleanUp('\\0')", $txt);
                        
                            $txt = preg_replace("#\[autolink\]".$key[$i]."\[\/autolink\]#ies", "Word2URL::createLink('\\0', '$link[$i]', '$tooltip[$i]')", $txt);
                        }
                                            
                    $i++;

                }
                    $txt = Word2URL::cleanUp($txt);
            }
            
                return $txt;
            
            
        }
        
        function createLink($key, $url, $def)
        {
            if($key != "")
            {
                return "<!--WORD2URL-01--><a href='".$url."' title='".$def."' target='_blank'><!--END WORD2URL-01-->".$key."<!--WORD2URL-02--></a><!--END WORD2URL-02-->";
            }
            else
                return $key;
        }


        
        function unLink($txt)
        {
            $txt = preg_replace("#<!--WORD2URL-01-->.+?<!--END WORD2URL-01-->#is", "", $txt);
            $txt = preg_replace("#<!--WORD2URL-02-->.+?<!--END WORD2URL-02-->#is", "", $txt);
            return $txt;
        }
        
        function cleanUp($txt)
        {
            $txt = preg_replace("#\[autolink\]#is", "", $txt);
            $txt = preg_replace("#\[\/autolink\]#is", "", $txt);
            return $txt;
        }
        
    }    
?>