How can I do this?

[oldlan]

I am new to vBulletin, and would like to seek help here.

Suppose I have a url in a message.

[url="http://www.site1.com"]

, and I would like vBulletin to display the following html code

<a href="http://www.site2.com/redirect.php?tid=xx&url=http://www.site1.com">

in stead of the default one

<a href="http://www.site1.com">

The

http://www.site2.com/redirect.php?tid=xx&url=

is automatically added when people browse this thread. Where the xx here is the thread id.

Please give me some clue on how to do this? At least let me know which file (funciton) I need to look at and do the modification.

Thanks a lot!

[8utt]

I haven't done anything like this for a while but look at the bbcode manager

If you create a custom [url] code it uses this instead of the default one.

So you can put your http://www.site2.com/redirect.php?tid=xx&url= in the code.

[oldlan]

Thanks! Can you tell me how can I custom the [url] code? From Admin CP, I think I can only add new BB Code, and there is no option I can edit existing BB code.

Also, I would prefer urls stored in DB are [url="http://www.site1.com"] format, only when people view the thread it adds the http://www.site2.com/redirect.php?tid=xx&url= .

[8utt]

Nope sorry was talking a load of rubbish there you cannot crate a bbcode that already exists.

Sorry.

Right how cofident are you with altering php files, I'm not at a pc I can test this on, but if you look at the file class_bbcode.php in the includes directory.

Around line 1777 fine

PHP Code:

    function handle_bbcode_url($text, $link) 


This is the function that parses the url

before

PHP Code:

$rightlink = trim($link); 


on line 1779 put

PHP Code:

$rightlink = "http://www.site2.com/redirect.php?tid=xx&url=$rightlink"; 


Make a backup of this file in case it doesn't work

[oldlan]

Great help 8utt! I am almost there.

But one more trouble is still there, how can I assign the thread id, which is the xx in (tid=xx), to the url? Have any clue?

I really appreciate it.

[8utt]

Again sorry I cannot test this myself but if you put

PHP Code:

$threadinfo[threadid] 


does this get parsed ?

eg

PHP Code:

$rightlink = "http://www.site2.com/redirect.php?tid=$threadinfo[threadid]&url=$rightlink"; 


[oldlan]

Hi 8utt! Thanks a lot! That really helps. It works now. :up:

[Dismounted]

Just use my hack, vbAnonymizer. No file edits .

[oldlan]

Thanks Dismounted, will definitely try the hack.