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

[mdawg]

Will this work in vb 4.2.3 has anyone tried it?

[djbaxter]

Yes it works in 4.2.3

[mdawg]

When I try to import the xml, I get this error:

The following dependencies were not met:
This product is not compatible with version 4.2.3 of vBulletin. (Compatible starting with 3.6.0 / Incompatible with 4.0.0 alpha 1 and greater).

By the way I am running PHP 5.5 on that server, does that matter?

[MarkFL]

Open the product .XML file, and near the top you will find a section something like:

	<dependencies>
		<dependency dependencytype="vbulletin" minversion="4.0.0" maxversion="5.0.0" />
	</dependencies>

Change the maxversion to 5.0.0, and then try importing it again.

[mdawg]

Like a charm! it voiks.

One thing I noticed that is that on the old posts, simply editing/saving does not force the mod to convert the URL to external title - must click to edit post, cut out the URL, post it in a web browser, copy it again, and re-post it.

[BirdOPrey5]

Originally Posted by mdawg

Like a charm! it voiks.

One thing I noticed that is that on the old posts, simply editing/saving does not force the mod to convert the URL to external title - must click to edit post, cut out the URL, post it in a web browser, copy it again, and re-post it.

Might just need to add an extra line or character to the post so the cache is updated.

However if code is already:


[url=http://www.google.com]www.google.com[/url] it will not fetch b/c it already has a title.

Code needs to be [url]http://www.google.com[/url] or just [url]www.google.com[/url] for it to work.

[mdawg]

It has something to do with that if the URL has already become a hyperlink, the mod does not recognize it. So after I click to edit a post, I cut out the URL (hyperlink), post it in a browser, then re-post it back into the post in a form where it is no longer a hyperlink and then save it. Then the mod recognizes it and converts to an external title.

Perhaps this is exactly what you are saying in a less technical manner; I don't know.

[webnsn]

HI

I have added and updated to my Mobile site

Demo - www.wikinewforum.com

[cellarius]

Hope I did not miss it and this has already been noted somewhere: Should you have any issues with non-standard characters and character encoding (as I did in my German language forum with ???? and the like), this may be of use to you:

In the plugin "Title_Replace" at hook "url_to_bbcode"

find:

PHP Code:

return "[url=\"" . $text[2] . $text[4] . "\"]" . preg_replace("/\&.+\;/", '', $title[1]) . "[/url]"; 


add before:

PHP Code:

$title[1] = utf8_decode($title[1]); 


Simple, but effective

[Avimelech]

I'm not getting this to work on 4.2.3 Patch Level 2. Links included in posts just show up normally with the URL and ellipses. (I have included all the mods in the thread.)

I also tried the ZIP version (with the maxversion change alone) and no dice.

Any advice?