Generate Search Links For Comma Separated Words

as always, your help is very much valued <3 I have listings on my site that feature metadata keywords in the description. I'd like to make these appear like tags (our cms doesn'

Solution 1:

Here is a working function built with a little jQuery, although easily can be converted to basic JavaScript:

jQuery:

<script>
    $(function(){
        $('.tags').each(function(){
            var obj=$(this),tags=obj.text().split(','),i=0,len=tags.length;
            if(obj.text()) {
                for(i;i<len;i++) {
                    var tag=tags[i].replace(/(^\s*)|(\s*$)/g,'');
                    tags[i]='<a href="http://oursite.com/search?query='+encodeURIComponent(tag)+'">'+tag+'</a>';
                }
                obj.html(tags.join(', '));
            }
        });
    });
</script>

HTML:

<div class="tags">abp, accredited building practitioners, calendar of events, upcoming events</div>
<div class="tags">test, another test, some more testing, etc</div>
<div class="tags">the, code, needed, to, be , in, an, each(), loop</div>
<div class="tags"></div>
<div class="tags">random, words, that, show, work, hopefully</div>
<div class="tags">the, return, false, was, causing, problems</div>
<div class="tags"></div>

Solution 2:

**Check this out. If the alert msg that you see is what you are looking for than you just need to append it in the div. http://jsfiddle.net/UH5U9/3/

EDIT

$('.tags').each(function(){
var s = $(this).html()

a = s.split(',');      
var temp='';      
for (var i = 0; i < a.length; i++)
{
    temp =temp + '<a href="oursite.com/search?query='+a[i]+'">'+a[i]+'</a>';

 }
$(this).html('');
$(this).html(temp);
});