By cgrant3d on

My users keep entering URL's like domain.com or www.domain.com instead of properly writing out http://www.domain.com ... Surely this must be a problem everybody has. What do you guys / gals do to solve that?

Thanks!

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vm commented

improper ?

so long as users are still able to access the site, im not sure it makes much difference how they arrive. is there a problem where users aren't able to access the site ? with either one or the other

I can't remember the last time I used http:// or www. in an address when im browsing.

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cgrant3d commented

Oops. Now that I re-read my post I see that I didn't quite type what I was thinking...

When my users post content to the site, they often will include a URL to visit their site for more info, a link to an image, a video, etc... I suppose I have two issues. The first is what is the best way to ensure that when a user fills out my custom field for "download url" or "more info" and enters domain.com drupal turns that into a proper link / address when the content is viewed. The second issue is how do I automatically turn plain text web addresses into links like this forum does? I notice when I enter an address here it automatically creates a link out of it...

Thanks for your help!

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vm commented

are you sure your drupal doesn't handle this natively ? I realize you are using Drupal 4.7, this site uses Drupal 5.1 however I think the feature you are describing was in 4.7.x I no long have a 4.7.x test site to test for you.

There may be a filter module available in the downloads area for 4.7.x

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http://drupal.org/project/urlfilter

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cgrant3d commented

Awesome. The urlfilter module *seems* to be exactly what I'm looking for. The only problem is that it doesn't seem to be working with my custom node module. Clearly it works with the standard node types like page, etc but I wonder what my module needs to do in order to work properly with it?

Any thoughts?