How do I hack the link target in vBulletin CMS and Blog?

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I want to hack vBulletin so that the link target in the CMS and Blog entries do not open a new window when linking to the rest of my site.

I tried to edit includes/class_bbcode.php and includes/class_bbcode_blog.php but my changes seem to get overwritten by functionality elsewhere in vbulletin.

Here's the original bb url code in class_bbcode.php:

return "<a href=\"$rightlink\" target=\"_blank\"" . ($is_external ? ' rel="nofollow"' : '') . ">$text</a>";

I changed it to this:

return "<a href=\"$rightlink\" target=\"" . ($is_external ? '_blank' : '_self') . "\"" . ($is_external ? ' rel="nofollow"' : '') . ">$text</a>";

Links in my test article still point to "_blank". I even hard coded the target to _self and they still show up as _blank. Do I need to make a change else where?

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Nevermind... got it to work! I neglected to resave my test posts after making the code changes (doh!).

I ended up changing the original code in class_bbcode.php from this:

return "<a href=\"$rightlink\" target=\"_blank\"" . ($is_external ? ' rel="nofollow"' : '') . ">$text</a>";

To this:

return "<a href=\"$rightlink\" target=\"" . iif(strstr($rightlink,"chromebookuser.com"),"_self","_blank") . "\"" . ($is_external ? ' rel="nofollow"' : '') . ">$text</a>";

You have to resave your articles after making this change!