URL link in AD

[Soleiltan]

Greetings all,

Have 68C up and running...

Have an advertiser that placed an ad....but his URL link is NOT clickable.

How do we do this? I am under Listing Packages, where it says to "Allow External URL"....that is checked off.

But it is NOT showing an external URL, just the URL without the clickable link.

Thanks.

[Soleiltan]

The key here is that the advertiser has to enter the WHOLE URL....ie.

http://blahblah.com

[spaceboy]

I edited to "url" portion in the viewlisting.tpl page to the code below and it made the user's entry a working hyperlink without having them type in the 'http://" part:

<a href="http://{$url|linkurl:45}">{$url|linkurl:45}

[cheesegrits]

You should probably put in a test to see if the url already starts with http://, otherwise you'll have the same problem if someone does prepend their url with that.

Something like:

{if preg_match('#^http://#',$url) }
    <a href="{$url|linkurl:45}">{$url|linkurl:45}</a>
{else}
    <a href="http://{$url|linkurl:45}">{$url|linkurl:45}</a>
{/if}

-- hugh

[HotAir]

Hi Hugh,

That's close, but the first one ended up with a nested url. Here's the code I used based on yours:

{if preg_match('#^http://#',$url) }
    {$url|linkurl:45}
{else}
    <a href="http://{$url|linkurl:45}">http://{$url|linkurl:45}</a>
{/if}