[Solved]: How to get html to work inside descriptions

[sportsrant]

I have been trying to get simple html tags to work inside the descriptions of my gallery.  Examples would be just adding a simple URL or EMAIL.  IS there some change that I need To make becuase I cannot get it to work


Thanks in advance,
Mike

[sportsrant]

You can see an example at http://www.sportsrant.com/gallery and look at the 2004 February Rant Girl Of the Month.  I am trying, as you see, a simple link to point to her site.  I searched these forums and cannot find a solution, if there is one.

Thanks

Mike

[Nibbler]

You can use BBcode in the descriptions for links, in exactly the same way as you can use them in this very forum. You can use [email] tags for mailto links.

[sportsrant]

how do you use the alt email tags instead of placing the email address!!

example on some BB codes:

mike ("email@email.com")or
mike (email@email.com)

is there a way to ALT the tags to show the name for the email, this does not work in the album description

Thanks in advance!

[Casper]

You do it using bb code, as Nibbler said.
For what you want, you would use;

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[email=mike@mike.com]Mike[/email]

Note, if you upgrade to version 1.3.0, there is bb code help

edit;
The above code won't work,  it only works with urls.

You would just use;

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[email]mike@mike.com[/email]

[sportsrant]

see if you go to my album and look at the description for the top album, you will see that I entered that exact email that you entered and it is not working!

http://www.sportsrant.com/gallery/

scroll down through the description and let me know if I am making a mistake

[Casper]

Sorry, I edited my post at the same time you were posting.

See the edit above.

[sportsrant]

thanks, I got that.

I appreciate the help!! 

umm, I have customized my gallery, which is 1.2, and do not want to upgrade now since I have it tied in and working with VB 3.0.1.  I have placed some custom code to stop people from seeing the large pictures unless they have been a member of my forums for so many days!!!  and I am going to add in there inthe future a minimum post count!!!

[Nibbler]

I don't have an install of 1.2 to test this on, but you can add your own regexps into functions.inc.php to do that.

Under:

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$bbcode_tpl['email']= '<span class="bblink"><a href="mailto:{EMAIL}">{EMAIL}</a></span>';

add:

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$bbcode_tpl['emailv2']= '<span class="bblink"><a href="mailto:{EMAIL_ADDR}">{EMAIL}</a></span>';

under:

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$bbcode_tpl['email'] = str_replace('{EMAIL}', '\\1', $bbcode_tpl['email']);

add;

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$bbcode_tpl['emailv2'] = str_replace('{EMAIL_ADDR}', '\\1', $bbcode_tpl['emailv2']);
$bbcode_tpl['emailv2'] = str_replace('{EMAIL}', '\\3', $bbcode_tpl['emailv2']);

under:

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                // [email]user@domain.tld[/email] code..
                $patterns[5] = "#\[email\]([a-z0-9\-_.]+?@[\w\-]+\.([\w\-\.]+\.)?[\w]+)\[/email\]#si";
                $replacements[5] = $bbcode_tpl['email'];


add:

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                // [email=me@domain.com]mail me[/email] code..
                $patterns[6] = "#\[email=([a-z0-9\-_.]+?@[\w\-]+\.([\w\-\.]+\.)?[\w]+)\](.*?)\[/email\]#si";
                $replacements[6] = $bbcode_tpl['emailv2'];


Which should let you use Casper's made up email tags 

[sportsrant]

thanks man, I really apprecaite that   

[Casper]

I have the ideas, Nibbler has the knowhow.  Got there though, 

[sportsrant]

put that code in and it works perfect, Thanks both of you for the fast and outstanding work!!

[Jack76]

Unfortunately in 1.3.0 version Nibbler's code doesn't work
How to do it in this version?