posting URLs in chat

[Charon]

when i try to post a URL in chat, as in http://www.someurl.com  i expect it to appear just like that and be clickable, so it opens in a new window.  That is what happens in Ver 2.05 and I like it that way....

In ver 3, this is what happens..... and the following is a cut and paste
[3:51:04] Charon: trying to post a clickable link
[3:51:15] Charon: $1$2

the actual text typed was http://www.someurl.com and it was converted to $1$2

Has anyone else reported this feature, and can it be addressed?

Thanks in advance.

[Ben2]

Yes I encountered the same problem. I set out to fix it. Here is a fix to your problem
Go into \themes\default\templates and edit tpl_chat.php
Go to around line 874.

The block of code that starts with:
   function write_message(INDATA){
      if(yourData['ignore'][INDATA['uid']]) return;

and ends with:

      INDATA['msg'] = INDATA['msg'].replace(/([A-z0-9_\-\.]+)@([A-z0-9\-\.]+)(?![^<>]*(>|<\/a>))/gi,"<a href=\"mailto: &dollar;1@&dollar;2\">&dollar;1@&dollar;2</a>");

Replace that entire code with this:

Code:

function write_message(INDATA){
if(yourData['ignore'][INDATA['uid']]) return;

INDATA['time'] = (yourData['settings']['show_timestamps']) ? '[' + gen_timestamp(INDATA['time']) + '] ' : '';

INDATA['msg'] = INDATA['msg'].replace(/</g,'&lt;');
INDATA['msg'] = INDATA['msg'].replace(/>/g,'&gt;');
INDATA['msg'] = INDATA['msg'].replace(/([^\/])www\./gi,'$1http://www.');
INDATA['msg'] = INDATA['msg'].replace(/\[url=(.+?)\](.+?)\[\/url\]/gi,"<a href='$1' target='_blank'>$2</a>");
INDATA['msg'] = INDATA['msg'].replace(/(http:\/\/|https:\/\/)([^ \[<]+)(?![^<>]*(>|<\/a>))/gi,"<a href=\"$1$2\" target=\"_blank\">$1$2</a>");
INDATA['msg'] = INDATA['msg'].replace(/&lt;br \/&gt;/g,"<br />");
INDATA['msg'] = INDATA['msg'].replace(/\\n/g,"<br />");
       
INDATA['msg'] = INDATA['msg'].replace(/([A-z0-9_\-\.]+)@([A-z0-9\-\.]+)(?![^<>]*(>|<\/a>))/gi,"<a href=\"mailto: $1@$2\">$1@$2</a>");

It's essentially changing '&dollar;' into an actual '$' sign.

I attached my copy of the file incase you mess up / don't understand what to do. (Don't forget to remove the .txt on the end of the file)

[Charon]

THANKS Ben2... it works well!!!

[Benjamin]

Just wanted to say it worked for me too. Thanks!

[mawwad]

thanks a lot

[ghlad30]

its great that you posted it here, such a big help for me as well, thanks so much for the help, I've been experiencing also some errors and its good that everything is fine now..

[Terry G.]

this is what i get when posting a URL
</smilies/icon_aaarghgif"> href="http://www.left blank/indexhtml" t/smilies/icon_aaarghgif">rget="_bl/smilies/icon_aaarghgif">nk">http://www.left blank/indexhtml/smilies/icon_aaarghgif">>

BUT i dont have a \themes\default do have a \themes\templates but no "tpl_chat.php" any where  and i have 2.0.5.1