# freelinking.module -- a freelinking filter for Drupal
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## Freelinking 3 for Drupal 6

Freelinking 3 is a complete rewrite of the freelinking module.
Freelinking 3 will be released for Drupal 6 and Drupal 7, and perhaps
for future versions as well.

Freelinking 3 breaks from previous versions in some significant ways:

* There is no database table in FL3. Previous versions of Freelinking
  use a table to keep track of freelinks and their targets.
* Plugins are available to enhance FL3's functionality. See the
  PLUGINS.TXT file for information on how to write plugins for FL3, and
  see the plugins/ directory for the shipping plugins.
* Freelinks made with the "nodetitle" plugin (which mimics the behavior
  of previous versions of freelinking) do not run through the
  'freelinking/' namespace.
* FL3 requires the [prepopulate](http://drupal.org/project/prepopulate)
  module for its "nodetitle" plugin.

At the first (alpha-1) release, some features are still missing:

* Support for the pipe (|) formatter for separating the link text from
  the target is missing.
* There is no consideration for freelinks made with the "nodetitle"
  plugin which did not exist at submission time but have been created
  later. This was the main reason for using the 'freelinking/' namespace
  in previous versions.

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freelinking.module by ea.Farris <eafarris@gmail.com>
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