Active Link Security 4.0

Thanks to TC from ElAntro.cl for the PHP code.

This hack will allow you to have active links on your forum but with security knowing the place were you are linking to wont know were you came from. Ie. If you click on a link in a post on your web site, the web site you go to will not know were you came from.

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[Abe1]

Originally Posted by djohn

how can i make the script exclude site-wide links? for example, i would not like to open a redirection popup, if the link is to another topic or part of my site.

Tell your users to use the [thread] and [post] BB codes.

[turkforum]

great hack installed and saved a bunch of money on my car insurance

[Mone']

Ae1 , great hack work almost perfectly for normal url
however if you have url like this one:

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;832790

the links.php will redirect to:

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb

cutting the ";en-us;832790" part at the end of the url.

the weird thing it's that it work perfectly in firefox but my user get's the problem with IE6 sp2 with links like the above example.

Do you know how to fix it ?

thank you

Mone'

[pco]

Hi,

you can use javascript to redirect instead of the meta-tag.

In links.php instead of

<META HTTP-EQUIV="refresh" content="0; URL=<? echo $site; ?>"></HEAD>

use this

<script type="text/javascript">window.location.href="<? echo $site; ?>"</script></HEAD>

You'll still have the title "Redirecting..." (just use the global phrase $vbphrase['redirecting'] instead no hardcoding for compatibilty with other languages) but it will redirect you right away even better and faster than the meta tag, no "extra info page" either Tested with internet explorer 5.5 and 6.0, no "cut offs"

Originally Posted by djohn

how can i make the script exclude site-wide links? for example, i would not like to open a redirection popup, if the link is to another topic or part of my site.

In functions_bbcodeparse.php first change this:

function handle_bbcode_url($text, $link, $type = 'url')
{
	global $wysiwygparse;

to this:

function handle_bbcode_url($text, $link, $type = 'url')
{
	global $wysiwygparse, $vboptions;

in order to have access to vboptions first. Now again at around line 1480 or so use this:

	if ($type == 'url')
	{
		// standard URL hyperlink
                $lenbburl=strlen($vboptions['bburl']);
                if ( substr($vboptions['bburl'],0,$lenbburl) == substr($rightlink,0,$lenbburl) ) {
			return "<a href=\"$rightlink\" target=\"_blank\">$text</a>";
                } else {
			return "<a href=\"" . $vboptions['bburl'] . "/links.php?url=$rightlink\" target=\"_blank\">$text</a>";
                }
                
	}
	else

Good luck

[teamgofast]

install, great hack thank you!

[H2k]

Originally Posted by azmi

our related link is with an infoframe:
http://redirect.koelnboard.de/redire...p://google.com

i saw it @giga and i think it works very well ;-)

text on the left:
the koelnboard is not responsible for the content
text on the right:
close infoframe

can we use anther url like said thati dont need to usemy url i need to use google.. so if TheUser enter forumssiteother.com and the forumssiteother.com check his log or state to find where poeple come from etc.. it will show from google if they was enter from my site.?

[aranthorn]

Just the ticket!

[Sin City]

great hack

[Bubble #5]

Originally Posted by djohn

suggestions: replace return return

"<a href=\"http://www.yourwebsite.com/links.php?url=$rightlink\" target=\"_blank\">$text</a>";

with

"<a href=\"$vboptions[bburl]/links.php?url=$rightlink\" target=\"_blank\">$text</a>";

for future versions: per-forums setting, whether to use this hack or not.

Are we supposed to make this modification? What is it's benifit?

[Abe1]

Originally Posted by Bubble #5

Are we supposed to make this modification? What is it's benifit?

Up to you.