Link Problem

[Paprika]

I sent this email to patiek[at]ep-dev.com to request help with the Forum-News script, he told me I could try posting my problem here too for faster assistance, so here it is. Along with my responce email back to him after he replied.

Hi,

I am having abit of a problem with your script forum news, I will try my
best to explain it:

When I enable "Auto-Link URLs" in the script options any links that I post
are messed up. Messed up as in the href values of the link tags have "</a"
at the end of them, therefore when one clicks on them (lets say for example
the link is to google) they are taken to "'http://www.google.com</a" which
infact is not a valid link so they get an error page from their browser.

Also in the same scenario above, each link's text is preceeded with a ">"
for reasons unknown to me.

However, When I disable "Auto-Link URLs" in the script, none of the links I
post work at all. Clicking on them takes you to, or opens a window rather,
going to "about:blank" which is not a not an address and gives you a blank
page. So all in all I am not able to get any links I post to work unless the
user goes and looks directly at the pos in the forum (where they work fine).

Please help!

Thank you!
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My Responce email:
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Hi, thanks for getting back to me so quickly.

I am running vBulletin 3.0.3;

In vbulletin 3 I use the WYSIWYG post editor to make all my posts so rarely
do I work with the BB Code myself, but I do assume that vbulletin does use
for me in the background whenever I put a link into the editor
as long as it has www. infront of it. It also copies links from webpages
exactly how they were (color, size, url, etc.).

So to aid you in seeing what I am reffering to I have setup an example page:
http://www.teen-moods.net/index.php?page=test_2993

The above page uses the Forum News Script to pull posts from the Test area
of my Forum, there you'll find a post by me that has different types of
links on it and a description of what each link is suppose to link to and
how I set it up. Then you can look at the link itself and figure the rest
out from there. For further more clarifaction compaire what you see on that
page to the actual post in the forum, which you should be able to see w/o
being registered or logged in.

Here is the code that I uncovered that vbulletin automatically inserted when
I used the WYSIWYG editor, it may or maynot be of any use to you, if you
don't understand why I included it or don't need it then just overlook it,
I'm sure you can find the problem without the code.

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www.google.com (just typed in the url w/o
protocall)
http://www.google.com (just typed in the
url w/ protocall)
google.com (just typed in the domain name w/o 'www' or protocall)
(url=www.google.com)google(/url) (typed in url using url bbcode)

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Let me know what you think.

Thanks!



If you could help me I'd appreciate it!

[Patrick]

Thanks, I will try to see where the problem is then. Until that time, just disable auto-link feature, the script will probably pick up links fine with it disabled.