I'm curious as to which script I can use to make it where if i type it somebody's name, it'll auto-link to a profile page that I've made for that person. Like on ESPN.com, if you see Kobe Bryant's name, it'll link to his player profile page automatically.
There are a couple ways of doing this, I think they save their news stories to a database, and when pulling from the database a script formats every keyword it finds. I think you can also do this with Javascript- the JS will loop through the page and change the text to a link if it finds certain keywords. Though the JS method isn't that great unless you've got a alot of time on your hands and / or a small amount of keywords. That's an interesting thought though. I would make a pass-through function that requires text- it then pulls from an associative sql table (IE KEY, KeyWord, Link), then replaces those keywords that it finds with the proper links and returns the updated text. I would not suggest using a pass-through live, I would use it only when you add a news story to your site (if that's what your using it for.) That and using this database pass-through method you can easily update keywords and their links. If your building a blod script then it could even check the passed text for other blog post names, and update the text accordingly. . .