<cfcomponent>
  <cffunction name="init" access="public" output="false" returntype="PartnerHighlighter" hint="Pseudo-constructor">
    <cfargument name="stPartners"   type="struct" required="true">
    <cfargument name="sLink" type="string" required="true" hint="the link to use when replacing.">
    <cfscript>
      variables.stPartners  = arguments.stPartners;
      variables.sStopString = '<span class="nolink">';
      variables.sLink       = arguments.sLink;

      return this;
    </cfscript>
  </cffunction>

    <cffunction name="highlightPartners" returntype="string" access="public" hint="this searches through the partner struct and highlights the partner">
<cfargument name="sSearchText" type="string" required="true" hint="the text to search">
<cfargument name="sHighlightType" type="string" required="false" default="link" hint="can add others if needed later">
<cfscript>
  local.sHighlightedText              = arguments.sSearchText;
  local.lstPunct                      = '';
  local.lstPunct                      = listAppend(local.lstPunct, ",", ',');
  local.lstPunct                      = listAppend(local.lstPunct, ".", ',');
  local.lstPunct                      = listAppend(local.lstPunct, " ", ',');
  local.lstPunct                      = listAppend(local.lstPunct, "'", ',');
  local.lstPunct                      = listAppend(local.lstPunct, '"', ',');
  local.lstPunct                      = listAppend(local.lstPunct, '’', ',');
  local.lstPunct                      = listAppend(local.lstPunct, '<', ',');
  local.lstPunct                      = listAppend(local.lstPunct, '>', ',');
  local.lstPunct                      = listAppend(local.lstPunct, '&', ',');
  local.lstPunct                      = listAppend(local.lstPunct, '?', ',');
  local.lstPunct                      = listAppend(local.lstPunct, '!', ',');
  local.lstReplaced                   = "";

  for(local.stPartner in variables.stPartners){
        local.stArguments.stPartner   = variables.stPartners[local.stPartner];
        local.stArguments.sHighlightType          = arguments.sHighlightType;
        local.nNameLength             = len(local.stArguments.stPartner.sFullName);

        local.nExists                 = findnocase(local.stArguments.stPartner.sFullname, local.sHighlightedText);
        local.aBytes                  = local.sHighlightedText.GetBytes();

        if(local.nExists gt 0){
            local.sSupposedName       = mid(local.sHighlightedText, local.nExists, local.nNameLength);

            local.nNextByte           = (local.nExists-1)+(local.nNameLength+1);

            if(listFindNoCase(local.lstPunct, Chr(local.aBytes[local.nNextByte]), ',') gt 0){
                local.nStop           = findNoCase(variables.sStopString,local.sHighlightedText,local.nExists-22);
                if(listFindNoCase(local.lstReplaced, local.stArguments.stPartner.sFullName, "|") eq 0 AND local.nStop eq 0){
                    local.sHighlighted          = getHighlight(argumentCollection=local.stArguments);
                    local.sHighlightedText      = rereplacenocase(local.sHighlightedText, local.stArguments.stPartner.sFullname, local.sHighlighted, "all");
                    local.lstReplaced           = listAppend(local.lstReplaced, local.stArguments.stPartner.sFullName, "|");
                }
            }
         }
     }
     return local.sHighlightedText;
  </cfscript>
</cffunction>

<cffunction name="getHighlight" returntype="string" access="private" hint="do the actual highlight">
  <cfargument name="stPartner" type="struct" required="true" hint="the partner">
  <cfargument name="sHighlightType" type="string" required="true" hint="can add others if needed later">
  <cfscript>
    var stLocalPartner          = arguments.stPartner;
    var sLocalHighlightType     = arguments.sHighlightType;
    var sHighlight              = "";
    var sNewLink                = "";

    if(local.sLocalHighlightType eq "link"){
        local.sNewLink          = rereplacenocase(variables.sLink, "[id]", local.stLocalPartner.nID, "all");
        local.sNewLink          = rereplacenocase(local.sNewLink, "[lastname]", local.stLocalPartner.sLastName, "all");
        local.sNewLink          = rereplacenocase(local.sNewLink, "[dupe]", local.stLocalPartner.sIsDupe, "all");
        local.sNewLink          = rereplacenocase(local.sNewLink, "[seo]", local.stLocalPartner.sFullName, "all");
        local.sHighlight        = '<a href="#local.sNewLink#" title="more information on this expert from example.com" target="_blank">#local.stLocalPartner.sFullName#</a>';
        local.sHighlight        = "<span>#local.sHighlight#</span>";
    }
    return local.sHighlight;
    </cfscript>
  </cffunction>
</cfcomponent>

<cfscript>
  variables.stPartners      = {'123'={sFullName='Michael Fish',nID='133',sLastName='Fish',sIsDupe='No'},'333'={sFullName='Michael Fisher',nID='133',sLastName='Fisher',sIsDupe='No'}};

  variables.stArgs          = {};
  variables.stArgs.stPartners = variables.stPartners;
  variables.stArgs.sLink    = '//example.com/profiles/[id]/[dupe]/[lastname]/[seo]/';

  variables.oPartnerHighlight = createObject('component','PartnerHighlight').init(argumentCollection=variables.stArgs);

  variables.stArgs = {};
  variables.stArgs.sSearchText = '<p>Michael Fish is a Weatheman</p>';

  writeOutput(variables.oPartnerHighlight.highlightPartners(argumentCollection=variables.stArgs));

  //expecting output <p><a href="//example.com/profiles/133/0/Fish/Michael Fish/" title="more information on this expert from example.com" target="_blank">Michael Fish</a> is a Weatheman</p>

  variables.stArgs = {};
  variables.stArgs.sSearchText = '<p>Michael Fi is a name</p>';

  writeOutput(variables.oPartnerHighlight.highlightPartners(argumentCollection=variables.stArgs));

  //expecting output <p>Michael Fi is a name</p>

  variables.stArgs = {};
  variables.stArgs.sSearchText = '<p>John Travolta is an Actor</p>';

  writeOutput(variables.oPartnerHighlight.highlightPartners(argumentCollection=variables.stArgs));

  //expecting output <p>John Travolta is an Actor</p>
</cfscript>

function linkifyNames(required struct names, required string template, required string text) {

    for (var key in names){
        var name = names[key];

        //this could be cleaned up more if you used the actual variable names from the struct with the hungarian notation
        //or if you dropped the hungarian notation
        name.expandedLink = '<a href="' & template & '" title="more information on this expert from example.com" target="_blank">' & name.sFullname & '</a>';
        name.expandedLink = replaceNoCase(name.expandedLink, "[id]", name.nID);
        name.expandedLink = replaceNoCase(name.expandedLink, "[dupe]", (name.sIsDupe ? 1 : 0));
        name.expandedLink = replaceNoCase(name.expandedLink, "[lastname]", name.sLastName);
        name.expandedLink = replaceNoCase(name.expandedLink, "[seo]", name.sFullName);

        text = reReplaceNoCase(text, "b" & name.sFullname & "b", name.expandedLink, "all");//needs to be a regex
    }

    return text;
}


variables.stPartners      = {'123'={sFullName='Michael Fish',nID='133',sLastName='Fish',sIsDupe='No'},'333'={sFullName='Michael Fisher',nID='133',sLastName='Fisher',sIsDupe='No'}};

writedump(linkifyNames(variables.stPartners, '//example.com/profiles/[id]/[dupe]/[lastname]/[seo]/', '<p>Michael Fish is a name</p>'));
writedump(linkifyNames(variables.stPartners, '//example.com/profiles/[id]/[dupe]/[lastname]/[seo]/', '<p>Michael Fi is a name</p>'));