Show Thread Enhancements - Title Tag Fetcher (Auto Replace URL with Titletag)

Hi there.

Since I needed a new URL Autotext Generator, I always loved the prework of Jafo232 and his Replace URL's With Page Title.
I just did some modifications on this Mod and for some forseeing mistypings, I also leaned out the checking of the "www" if given.

For those who don't know that mod it's quite simple:
If you post an URL in the Forums, this Mod just loads the <title>XXXXXX</title> out of the linked website.

The title won't be read if the following conditions occur:

• The linked page simply has no <title>-Tag
• The page is down or the <title>-Tag is not being found within the first 60 seconds
• The <title>-Tag is not being found within the first 1000 lines of code.

Installation:
Just import the XML via the ACP and thats all.

Uninstall:
Just kill it out of your ACP.

01.09.2008 Update
Fixed Typo which got us a parse error

[lingstar]

Didn't work in my install of VB4 - got:

The following dependencies were not met:

1. This product is not compatible with version 4.0.3 of vBulletin. (Compatible starting with 3.6.0 / Incompatible with 4.0.0 alpha 1 and greater)

Anyone have any mod that will work?

Thanks!

Barb

[BirdOPrey5]

This actually works just fine on VB4, you just have to edit the XML file to allow it to install.

Download the mod, open the XML file in notepad or another text editor.

Find the line:
<dependency dependencytype="vbulletin" minversion="3.6.0" maxversion="4.0.0 alpha 1" />
It will be near the top...
Then simply change the max version to 4.9.9:
<dependency dependencytype="vbulletin" minversion="3.6.0" maxversion="4.9.9" />

It will now install and work.

[BirdOPrey5]

Anyone got this mod playing nicely with AME 2.5 (Automatic Media Embeder) - with both mods enabled the titles of youtube videos become URL's instead of words.

[BirdOPrey5]

I got this "fixed" - the problem was never with AME, the problem was this mod didn't work on youTube links anyway- because youtube puts line-breaks in their title and this mod couldn't deal with that.

To fix this go to your plugin manger -> edit the "Title Replace" plugin

Find the line:

preg_match("/<title>[\n\r\s]*(.*)[\n\r\s]*<\/title>/", $page, $title);

Replace it with these lines:

preg_match("/<title>[\r\n\s]*([^<>]*)<\/title>/i", $page, $title);
$title = preg_replace ("#[\r\n]#"," ", $title);

This will fix the problem with youtube (line breaks in titles) AND the issue someone else mentioned where captial <TITLE> tags didn't work either.

[jbizzle]

Thanks for the fix Bird, but I have yet another question. How come when I edit a post and add a URL it does not fetch the new title? It just leaves it as the URL unless its a new post.

[BirdOPrey5]

yeah I noticed this too. As is the mod only works on "new threads" it doesn't work on edited threads. I will see if I can get it to work on both.

[iyama]

Is this still working on vb4?

[HMBeaty]

Originally Posted by iyama

Is this still working on vb4?

Works for me (vBulletin 4.1.2)

[Alfa1]

Does this also work for previous posts or only for posts made after installation?
Once this mod is uninstalled, will the links turn back their original state?

[BirdOPrey5]

Only works on new posts.

Links will never change back.