Links in Gallery Descriptions

tjmuse · July 14th, 2010, 02:56 AM

The new PP is formatting links very oddly. In descriptions where perfectly working BB Code links worked yesterday, it is showing up with a square bracket a space, the word LINK (underlined and as a hyperlink) another space, and a close bracket.

What's the tricky setting to turn these back into properly formatted inline links? I didn't see anything that looked like it would control this in the Admin settings.

Thank you,
TJ

Chuck S · July 14th, 2010, 08:37 AM

Can you please provide an example?

tjmuse · July 14th, 2010, 11:31 AM

Sure ... here's a direct link to one:

Glitter Me This for the Glistening Kits - NutHouse-Scraps Gallery

Chuck S · July 14th, 2010, 12:46 PM

please edit the description and let me know exactly what the description is placing it in code brackets here

tjmuse · July 14th, 2010, 02:25 PM

Here's what's in the edit. You can see that what used to be properly formed ampersands that made up working links are now translating to html-encoded ones, that is: the ampersand symbol + amp;

It didn't used to do that.

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tjmuse · July 14th, 2010, 02:29 PM

P.S. It used to format it like BBCode, so a link: h tt p://www.etc.com?blah blah blah could be used as a hyperlink word or phrase inline.

Which I'm sure VB Supports, let me try the same thing here:

Link to Crazy New Description Example

Which was:

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Chuck S · July 14th, 2010, 02:37 PM

Yes your trying to do some vb supported bbcode thats not supported by ours. Ours properly reads link as thats how its coded.

Maybe try changing lines 4442-4445 in the function ppconvert_markups function in pp-inc.php to this

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tjmuse · July 14th, 2010, 02:52 PM

Rather than change the code, what IS the new proper pseudo-code markup for this version of Photopost?

we have used [ url = ] link text [ / url ] for a long time on PhotoPosts.

Chuck S · July 14th, 2010, 02:54 PM

well all I am saying is if you choose to do that type of link it is suppose to show as [link]

I dont think this has changed in like forever.

The edit I provided actually shows the wording you type between the brackets like vb url thing.

tjmuse · July 14th, 2010, 03:55 PM

Well, we were on a previous version that was only 18 months old or so, and it worked perfectly in supporting the manner in which bbcode is supported throughout the web across many different applications. It was one of the selling features of Photopost as far as we were concerned.

So to get that sort of link in the new version, what is the correct markup?

Chuck S · July 14th, 2010, 08:19 PM

The correct markup is what I have posted above to make it work like you want

tjmuse · July 19th, 2010, 03:24 AM

Chuck, I am loathe to change core code - that's a gift that just keeps on giving every time there's an update.

So before I do that, I just want to make sure we're talking about the same thing. Up until we upgraded to this new version, we used the linking markup for inline links as directed by the PhotoPost help file:

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to add links when needed to a description field. There are HUNDREDS of images which used those directions.

Before I change the core code, I'd like to make sure that there's not a new markup (at the user level to use during the entry of the description) that I've overlooked somewhere that will format a regular, readable link.

Thanks,
TJ

Chuck S · July 19th, 2010, 07:58 AM

Yes we are indeed talking the same thing please change those couple lines I noted and you should be fine.

tjmuse · July 19th, 2010, 02:53 PM

Thanks, we'll make that change, then. I hope you guys consider going back to these kinds of links in the next version.

Chuck S · July 19th, 2010, 05:31 PM

I beleive this will be included in the next release.