Show full url links instead of shortening it?

[fme]

Hi, when users post a long link the forum automatically shortens it by adding "..." for example:

http://news.google.com/news/section?pz=1&cf=all&topic=po&ict=ln


something like this will come up:
http://news.google.com/news/se...c=po&ict=ln


Is there an option on how I can make it show the full url link instead of it being shorten? thanks

[Lynne]

This has been posted about before. You need to actually edit the code. Try a search for it and it should come up. Or do a search in your files for "..." and it should come up (that's how I found it).

[fme]

Thanks for the reply. But i've tried searching on Vbulletin.com and Vbulletin.org for hours and of course I did the basic phrase / template search for "..." before posting this thread. I came up with nothing.

can you please direct me to the post or what to type into the search field? I might just be retarded and missing the most simplest word for this.

[Lynne]

Search your php files for '...', not the templates/phrases. I think it will show up in some bbcode function, if I recall correctly.

[Valter]

Hi Lynne,

Are you able to do this in vB4?

I've tried to disable stripping in handle_bbcode_url function in class_bbcode.php but it does not work. postparsed table is truncated.

Any idea?

Thanks.

[Lynne]

Yes, it works in vb4 also. I saved this blurb from another thread about it:

I believe you want to find these lines in includes/class_bbcode.php in the function handle_bbcode_url
PHP Code:
if (vbstrlen($tmp) > 55 AND $this->is_wysiwyg() == false)
{
$text = htmlspecialchars_uni(vbchop($tmp, 36) . '...' . substr($tmp, -14));
}
Line 2091-2095 in v4.0.3.

55 = number of characters before it's stripped
36 = number of characters before the (...)
14 = number of characters after the (...)

[GONUMBER6]

This was very useful info, thank you as always Lynne!

[dmm2020]

Yes, it works in vb4 also. I saved this blurb from another thread about it:

Glad I found this post.

I was having problems in latest version of vB 4.1.5 where I posted download links for alpha testers of my script on my forum and it initially worked for them, but when I went back to the page a day later, link would be corrupted. But when I edited the script, the full link showed in the edit mode. I commented the block of code you reference out and problem goes away for me.

Thanks.

[postcd]

Yes, it works in vb4 also. I saved this blurb from another thread about it:

I changed that number to 512

so it is:

if (vbstrlen($tmp) > 512 AND $this->is_wysiwyg() == false)
{
$text = htmlspecialchars_uni(vbchop($tmp, 36) . '...' . substr($tmp, -14));
}

But its still shortened even i tried to post new reply with long links (less than 512 chars.)

[tini_lam]

In FILE class_bbcode.php have 2 line need edit.

edit
$text = htmlspecialchars_uni(vbchop($tmp, 36) . '...' . substr($tmp, -14));
to
// $text = htmlspecialchars_uni(vbchop($tmp, 36) . '...' . substr($tmp, -14));

[Paul M]

Do not comment that line out. You are opening an XSS security hole by removing the htmlspecialchars call.

[MaXimus]

Even better, you can have the URL auto convert into the Title of the page:

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=189658

[postcd]

Do not comment that line out. You are opening an XSS security hole by removing the htmlspecialchars call.

In the file /includes/class_bbcode.php i found two lines:
$text = htmlspecialchars_uni(vbchop($tmp, 36) . '...' . substr($tmp, -14));

so i replaced both by:
$text = htmlspecialchars_uni($text);

and it seems to work (no link shortenings). Is that better regarding security?
https://www.w3schools.com/PHP/func_string_htmlspecialchars.asp