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Forgive me if I missed this elsewhere, I did search for it. If a user enters a URL at the end of a sentence, where the period follows the url, UBB automatically hyperlinks the URL but includes the period as part of the URL. For example: I would like for you to visit http://www.catcherman.com. The page won't show up because of the period in the URL and most users won't realize the flaw but instead will think that the site is down. Is there a way to prevent the period from being added into the URL? Thanks.
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This is a designed behavior. When it catches the string www or http it will turn all characters attached to it(until it runs into a space) into a hyperlink. The best way to not let this happen is to use UBBCode. Like [ url=https://ubbdev.com/]ubbdev.com[/url].
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Yes, this I know. I can create links all day long. It's some of my members that don't realize how to do this that I'm concerned about. Of course I could educate them, but then new members will join and start the problem all over again.
Is there a way to have UBB remove a period if it occurs before a space?
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Bump. Still looking for help here too...
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I wouldn't know how to do this in code, but I wonder if this possible. using http://www.ccc.com. as the example. if($last_character eq ".") { $url = $url - $last_character; } now I don't have any clue on how to do that in code,but maybe someone will see that and know how EDIT: changes the link cause I realized my random link went to a porn site 
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The problem being that the dot at the end CAN be a legal character...
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To be honest, I'd be willing to take the chance. I've never used a URL with a period at the end and if there was a problem with one I could go back and give it the proper URL code. This would only need to work when creating automatic URLs.
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quote:
Originally posted by Weird Al:
if($last_character eq ".") {
$url = $url - $last_character;
}
did you hear something called regex? but Charles is right. The url can be like this: http://www.ccc.com/?this=that. and the program in this site can expect 'that.' as a parameter (for example)...
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then, do not touch to the code in your ubb files 
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quote: Originally posted by Burak: then, do not touch to the code in your ubb files There's no need to be rude. I was only asking for clarification.
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huh? rude? if you dont know how the code works and you touch it, you can get is a not-working forum software.
Well thats not my problem anyway...
If you want to add something its up to you...
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quote:
Originally posted by catcherman:
Yes, this I know. I can create links all day long. It's some of my members that don't realize how to do this that I'm concerned about. Of course I could educate them, but then new members will join and start the problem all over again.
You might take a different approach and make a forum for educating newbies, much like we did at threadsdev... "how do I make a post" "how do I post a link" etc... otherwise you'll always have newbies making random mistakes and you'll never be able to code enough to make it eejit-proof. Better to teach them the correct way up front.  Making the FAQ more prominent too is another way...
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Well, thanks for the help. I knew of that solution, as I mentioned it earlier in this thread. I was just wondering if there was another solution. I've seen it done on PHP boards and vBulletin boards.
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# above in ubb_lib.cgi
return ($check);
} # end auto_url
# add
$check =~ s/<a href="(.+?)." target="_blank">(.+?).</a>/<a href="$1" target="_blank">$2</a>./si; Untested, but i'm guessing it should work.
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quote:
Originally posted by Brett:
Untested, but i'm guessing it should work. Close Brett, but I noticed a bug. If you add more than one URL with a period after it in the same post, the new code only fixes the first one.
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