Replace Local Links With Title
 

CHANGELOG:

1.01

Added support for threads with the newpost and lastpost attributes in the query string.

Made matches less greedy.

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I wish I could come up with a better name for this plugin..

Basically what this does is if someone posts a link in a thread that links to a thread in your forum, it will replace the link text with the title of that thread.

For example:

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=83252

Would automatically be displayed as:

Hacks should be released in ONE ZIP file please

This is for version 3.5.x and should work for future versions unless they move hooks around.

As far as support, I will reply to this thread when I can.

Installation is simple, go to your admin cp, click plugin system, click download/upload plugin and upload the attached plugin.

NOTE: The second xml file (vbulletin-plugins-anon.xml) is ONLY needed for the anonymizer hack. If you have that hack installed, then use the second file, otherwise, use the first. Only install the second file IF you use the anonymizer hack. It is either or, don't install both!

Also note if you have other plugins that alter links other than the anonymizer, such as mods that make your links look like html pages, or in anyway alters links entered into posts, then this will probably not work for you.

The only other thing you should do after that is CLICK INSTALL. :)

Hmm, not sure if it is because we use the anonymiser plug in but no go at my site using 3.51

Not sure what that anonymiser plugin is, but make sure you enable this plugin, and that you are using LOCAL links. It will not link titles to other forums, just your own.

You should also note that it will not parse titles if someone links to a particular post in a thread, only if they link to the thread itself.

Thanks for this, will this replace links already posted before applying the plugin?

Yes it will. It does not modify any database data, it parses it after it is retrieved.

The plug in defaults to Active. The link I added was the title thread of another internal forum. See my example here
http://www.cpfools.com/forum/showthr...1929#post11929

I think this is because of your anonymizer hack, because if you look at the link in that thread:

http://www.cpfools.com/forum/showthread.php?t=4281

The actual link is:

http://www.anonym.to/?http://www.cpfools.com/forum/showthread.php?t=4281

Which will mean nothing to the plugin. The plugin will search for the setting you have for Forum URL in your vbsettings and ignore all other URL's. The only way that MIGHT work, and I am not sure is if you change your Forum URL setting to:

http://www.anonym.to/?http://www.cpfools.com/forum

That is what I suggested in first post. May need to add a *Won't work with anonymizer plug in.
Good mod though.

I am not familiar with the anonymizer hack, but I modified the original plugin and attached it to the mod post up top. Try that one, it should work for you (vbulletin-plugins-anon.xml).

New plug in with Anon add-in worked like a charm! Clicked install

Thanks m8! This looks awsome!! :D

Btw did you start coding the plugin from the me irc hack? :p

Yeah, I was tinkering with that hack because it is broken (see my post in that thread). It gave me the inspiration for writing this hack.

Sorry for a 3rd post but this plugin has quite a lot of bugs...
1. If you want another text displayed and not the title it doesn't appear, only the link does.
2. Sometimes it does not parse the URL

for these reasons I will disable the plugin but I will not click uninstall cause I hope these will be fixed and I want to be notified :)

Lol, I did the same thing with another hack of mine (the custom smilie bbcode) so I remembered the variables, lol. Gotcha! :p

Can you either post or PM me an example? I cannot replicate what you mean..

Write for example "blah blah" and then select it, click the url button and enter the thread url. If you post you'll see that "blah blah" is lost and replaced with the link of the thread.
As for the other bug I don't know when it happens :( It seems to occur randomly but quite often... :(

Are you using the anonymizer version? I just tried highlighting text, and entering the link, and it works fine for me.

Otherwise my guess is, it is conflicting with another plugin you have that uses the postbit_display_complete hook..

Nope, I'm using the normal version.
I wish I could give you the url for it but my Testing board is hidden from normal members and also I have disabled the plugin...
Do you have a board in which I could try to replicate the problem? :)

The only hack I have in that hook is mine and I'm sure it doesn't conflict as it's totaly different (it parses the bbcode [smilie=1,2,3] for example)

Shot you a PM. :)

it doesnt working

http://www.croportal.net/forum/showt...6281#post26281 see this

Nope not working for me either on Vbulletin 3.5 :(

Isn't this variable used by a few other plug-ins?

I think Dean's meIRC hack used that for one, doesn't it? I could be wrong, though. ;)

hmm dont think it worked
gotta enable it anywhere ?

oh does this work for 3.5 ?

A little clearification.
1. I am running it fine in 3.5.1
2. Regarding this quote You only need the second xml file IF you are also anonymizing internal links.
i.e. have located in Local addresses are not anonymized If you leave this option blank, the value for vBulletin Options Cookie Domain will be used
area of the Link Anonymizer

Boofo I've already asked that above, lol

You asked if anything conflicted with this. I was pointing out what it MIGHT be. ;)

Because you are using another hack to make your pages look like html pages. It conflicts with the hack.

This will only parse links that look like so:

http://yourdomain.com/path/to/your/f...ead.php?t=3123

In otherwords, if you have another plugin that parses or in any other way alters links, this plugin will not work.

Most of the problems people seemed to be having was when using goto=lastpost or goto=newpost attributes in the query string, which the original hack would not parse.

Added support for these in the hack and speeded up the match routine to make them more greedy.

If you have version 1.0, just uninstall that plugin, and reinstall 1.01.

Put it on the boards this morning - thanks!

It should just be noted that if you have a hack that already alters links in some sort of way, this might not work for you (except anonymizer).

Is there a fix available for when there are 2 links in the same post? When that happens the following link gets it's title replaced too.

Wow brilliant!! Thanks.. just what i needed!

Great idea! Thanks. :)

Installed. Working Good

Hm, it doesn't show in the plugins system, what name should it have, Replace Local Links With Title ?

And is there any settings for it? Don't see it either!