Automatic url parsing knacked

[Famous Graham]

ie just typing

www.pistonheads.com

doesn't create a link automagically.

Bugger. It did that time.

How about

http://www.pistonheads.com/

Hmph...right, I'm clearly going mental then

Edited by Famous Graham on Wednesday 8th August 11:54

[TonyHetherington]

[Famous Graham]

Ssshh you

Actually, as it happens, forgetting to put the http:// in a manual [url ] tag causes the domain name to be tagged on the end of pistonheads.

eg

[url]Test|www.test.com[/url]

Will create a link to http://www.pistonheads.com/www.test.com

[Famous Graham]

It just happened again :

http://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&a...

My post at the top of that page with the YouTube link. I just copied and pasted the link into the post and it didn't automagically make it a link.

[miniman]

Famous Graham said:

It just happened again :

http://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&a...

My post at the top of that page with the YouTube link. I just copied and pasted the link into the post and it didn't automagically make it a link.

My guess - it only understands URLs starting with http://www. Yours began with http://uk. so I would suspect that's why it didn't pick it up. It also does funny things if you use an "@" symbol e.g. lol@dave becomes a mailto: link.

[miniman]

Or maybe not!

OK I'm gonna change my tune to "it doesn't work on the first post in a thread".

Edited by miniman on Thursday 30th August 18:31

[Famous Graham]

Just happened again :

http://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&a...

My post down the bottom. Can't see any rhyme or reason why tbh.

[RacingPete]

Famous Graham said:

Just happened again :

http://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&a...

My post down the bottom. Can't see any rhyme or reason why tbh.

http://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&f=141&t=449664&i=999999

Looks like putting the link next to quoting is causing the fault (as my test above), though if you put [url] tags around it then it will work all the time.

[RacingPete]

Famous Graham said:

Just happened again :

http://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&a...

My post down the bottom. Can't see any rhyme or reason why tbh.

Link -> http://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&a...

Or put some text between the link and the end quote, as the example above.

[Famous Graham]

Hurrah - vindication