UBB.Developers Forums UBB.threads 6 V6 Modifications Forum Design Integration Is there a way to truncate long URL's

or reduce the size of graphics before they display in the news boxes of IIP so they don't rezize the tables and destroy the layout of the page?

For instance someone left this link in one of my forums

http://www.football.com/cgi-bin/art...ni+could+get+start+against+Bucs&sfb=

And it caused the middle table to run off the page! Is there any work around for this?

Since IIP uses .threads' markup routines there is no direct way of changing the urls. IIP can strip the html in a post which would fix the problem.

Or, just tell people not to post such long urls/words in the news posts.

I try to use [url= ] stuff[ /url] whenever I post things that will end up on the front page, it's much cleaner looking that way

This does seem to have been fixed recently...... or is it just me... these URL's wrap in this post.

[edit]OK - never mind... I'm using OmniNet on the mac... and it does word wrap the URL's.... but in checking IE and Netscape it doesn't.

Cool to know that this is possible on the browser end..... maybe IE and Netscape will figure it out.

I'm not using Threads but I plan to do so in the future.
The following code will cut anything above 50 characters in width, kinda like vBulletin's behavior. It will cut the 'showen' URL of course not the actual one which resides in the '<a href="..">' .

Note it might not be quite accurate, but I've tested it with very large strings ( range(1,1000000) ) and it worked.

So somebody put this in UBBThreads.

code:

// The URL to be showen actually
$ShowenURL = $URL;

// How many characters to remove?
$TotalDel  = strlen($ShowenURL) - 50;

// Cut down by half for substr
$PullChars = (int) ($TotalDel / 2);


if ( strlen($ShowenURL) >= 50 ) {
	// We will do operation from the middle of the string
	$Mid	= (int) (strlen($ShowenURL) / 2);
	
	// Do it!
	$ShowenURL = substr_replace($ShowenURL, '..', $Mid, $PullChars-1);
	$ShowenURL = substr_replace($ShowenURL, '..', $Mid-$PullChars+1, $PullChars-1);
}

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