What can be done to shorten the URL's that people are posting in the threads. They blow the sides off of the board.

Is there some code that can be used to shorten the url or change it? Maybe add a title to it that is shorter that the crap that is showing up now?

Just a question.

What's so long about the URL?

(domain)/(forums)/(conference)/phpbb/

I'm anal retentive as hell about organizing files, so I'm a bit shocked somebody finds fault with the folder system.

There's also subdomains:

rice.ncaabbs.com

etc.

georgia_tech_swagger Wrote:What's so long about the URL?

(domain)/(forums)/(conference)/phpbb/

I'm anal retentive as hell about organizing files, so I'm a bit shocked somebody finds fault with the folder system.

There's also subdomains:

rice.ncaabbs.com

etc.

No, no, no I am talking about links that people post in their threads. Those are the URL's that I am talking about.

Like...http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20051212/ap_o...MlJVRPUCUl

See what I am saying, and this is just a short one.

ohhhhhhhhhh

Tell them to press the damn URL BBCode button... then you can do this:

Yahoo ! News Story

georgia_tech_swagger Wrote:ohhhhhhhhhh

Tell them to press the damn URL BBCode button... then you can do this:

Yahoo ! News Story

That looks nice, but I don't see it.[/list]

GrayBeard Wrote:That looks nice, but I don't see it.

You don't see what? The URL or how to do it? If b, the instructions on how to do so are given if you
'hover' over the URL button in the post window

[code:1][url=http://www.ecupiratenation.net]IT'S COMING[/url][/code:1]

IT'S COMING

georgia_tech_swagger Wrote:ohhhhhhhhhh

Tell them to press the damn URL BBCode button... then you can do this:

Yahoo ! News Story

The problem is that the URL button puts
[code:1]
'[url]' that one closes via close tag with '[/URL]'
[/code:1]

Since the previous bb software used javascript dialogs to get the URL ( http://...)
and then as for the link text ( title)
so people are hitting the URL button pasting the URL then hitting close tag.

Most probably don't know to put the =URL inside the tag block (between the square braces. )
[/url]