Okay, my first EE plugin, so be nice.

It's tiny and dead simple: it creates a link to Wikipedia article for whatever day you want; I'm thinking that this will mainly be used with {exp:weblog:entries} {entry_date} field.

Anyone find it interesting?




<?php



$plugin_info = array(



'pi_name'           =&gt;   'On This Day',
'pi_version'        =&gt;   '1.0',
'pi_author'         =&gt;   'Sadhana Ganapathiraju',
'pi_author_url'     =&gt;   'http://www.nikhedonia.com/',
'pi_description'    =&gt;   'Creates a link to Wikipedia article on the day the post was published',
'pi_usage'          =&gt;   Onthisday::usage()




);



class Onthisday
{
    var $return_data    =   '';



function Onthisday()
{
    global $TMPL;

    $date = $TMPL-&gt;tagdata;

    $date = strtotime($date);

    if (false === $date || -1 === $date)
    {
        // Bad date

        return;
    }

    $month = date('F', $date);

    $day = date('j', $date);

    $link = '&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/{0}"&gt;Wikipedia on {1}&lt;/a&gt;';

    $link = str_replace('{0}', $month . '_' . $day, $link);

    $link = str_replace('{1}', $month . ' ' . $day, $link);

    $this-&gt;return_data = $link;
}

function usage()
{
    ob_start();

    ?&gt;

    To show a link to the Wikipedia article for a given English date, surround it by the tag:

    &#123;exp:onthisday&#125;{entry_date format="%M %d, %Y"}&#123;/exp:onthisday&#125;

    Credits: Based on the Wordpress plugin (This Date in History) by Mike Schepker.

    &lt;?php

    $buffer = ob_get_contents();

    ob_end_clean();

    return $buffer;
}




}



?>