shortening long links...

[Solice]

I was wondering if anyone could tell me how to have links past a certain # of characters be shrunk down in size to prevent this:

~please see attachment~

I've seen it on forums before... where the link ends up looking like this www.longasslink...blabla
thanks in advance for any help given ^^

[Gary King]

If you're talking about vBulletin's function, here is what it looks like:

PHP Code:

function dowordwrap($text) {
  global $wordwrap;

  if ($wordwrap!=0 and $text!="") {
    return preg_replace("/([^\n\r ?&\.\/<>\"\\-]{".$wordwrap."})/i"," \\1\n",$text);
  }

} 


Where $wordwrap is the number of letters before wrapping, and $text is the text to wrap.

[Solice]

Ok, I saw what your saying and it actually does it in the threads automatically... but what I really want to change is the way it displays them on the whos online... is there a way to do that or to make it so that the whos online can identify the articles section or others like it?

[Gary King]

What in tarnation are you talking about? (Just had to say it )

[Solice]

click on the attachment in the first post... see how the forums are stretched out by that link?

I want to keep that from happening...

[Gary King]

You mean the Unknown Location part? Only administrators see that anyways, so your members won't see that, they'll only see SoliceNet Main Index