[VB3-RC2] vBRedirect v1.1 - Redirect to external pages with your banner above

What It Does:
This script will provide you with a redirect page for all the links people put on your site using the URL tags.
It opens a new page with your own customisable banner and text on top and the external link opens within a seperate frame setup by the script. Useful if you want users to stay on your site but still check out posted links. All the banner .gif header attributes are setup from within a template so you don't need to go editing php files to change the look of it.

Installation Type:
Installation is easy and will take approx 5 mins when following the install.html included.
Experiance Level: Amature
Install Time: 5 mins
PHP Edit?: No file edits needed, AdminCP access needed.

Support:
Support for this script is available and will be answered either here or On Our Forums.

Hope you like my first mod, i normally write full code, not hack other peoples

JJ

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[edit] 11-march-04 01:29 ; Fixed the www and http problem with the links, its recommended you update the redirect.php if you have already installed, or install this again.

[Pikok]

Originally Posted by Okiewan

Nice hack, very useful!
Only issue is when linking to a post (for example) within the forum itself...
Anyway to apply this to only external links?

In redirect.php find:

PHP Code:

if ($rdr == '')
{
    eval(print_standard_error('error_redirect'));
} 


And Replace With:

PHP Code:

// Get Host Name From URL
preg_match("/^(http:\/\/)?([^\/]+)/i", $rdr, $matches);
$hostname = $matches[2];

if ($hostname=='www.domain.net')
{
    $url = $rdr;
    eval(print_standard_redirect('Redirecting...',0));    
}
else if ($rdr == '')
{
    eval(print_standard_error('error_redirect'));
} 


Change $hostname to yours and that should work for you.

[JustJonno]

Originally Posted by Okiewan

Problem...
Installing this hack will blow-up vbadvanced homepage (the layout).
It has something to do with the custom BB codes.

Removing the bbcodes will of course leave all links posted in threads messed-up.

There is another way to set this up, instead of using the [url] directive, use something like [ext] and then make sure the editor's javascript for links points to [ext] instead of [url] that way the in-built [url] directives still work for vbadvanced homepage

JJ

[Andreas]

!!! Security Warning !!!

This hack has a major Vulnerability!
The author has been informed to take apropriate steps to fix this.
In the meanwhile, I strongly recommend to uninstall this hack.

!!! Security Warning !!!

[Boofo]

What's the vulberability? Might be nice to know.

[Silverstangs]

Has the security issue been resolved?

[rinkrat]

I installed this then took it out and now my original url redirect doesn't work. Can someone tell me what the original bbcode for url is supposed to be?

THanks!!

[rinkrat]

anyone? How do I set it to parse the urls like normal?

[airaffair]

Originally Posted by KirbyDE

!!! Security Warning !!!

This hack has a major Vulnerability!
The author has been informed to take apropriate steps to fix this.
In the meanwhile, I strongly recommend to uninstall this hack.

!!! Security Warning !!!

Would like to know what the issue is and if the code "can" or can "not" be secured and if so how?

I mean...I like the fact that you found this security hole - but is it something you could tell/share with the rest of us? maybe we could even fix it ourselves?

[SamirDarji]

I'm using this hack on my link forums and want to have the breadcrumb in the upper frame. How do I get the variables to pass? I just keep getting the variable names. What other php files would I need?

The only reason I'll want to do it is if the link forums also have a variable for the forum name. Then I can make a nav bar in the upper frame similar to those on regular forums with the corresponding forum name of the link. If that variable doesn't exist, then I can't do what I want and I'll just use the hardcoded html one that I'm going to work on right now. Someone give me some insight please.

[mgold]

page http://www.securityrelease.com/showt...hp?p=23#post23

just click the link or any other link on the forum

error:
Warning: main(./global.php): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in D:\securityrelease\forums\redirect.php on line 40

Fatal error: main(): Failed opening required './global.php' (include_path='.;c:\php4\pear') in D:\securityrelease\forums\redirect.php on line 40


I turned it off while its not working but what could the error be?