For some reason the link entered by the user when 'shouting' is surrounded by <p> tags, ie 

<a href="<p>http://submittedurl.com</p>" target="_blank"><p>admin</p></a>

Making the link fail

I tried looking at shoutbox.module code but couldn't find anything obvious.

Greg

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cgiscripts4u’s picture

cgiscripts4u commented

OK after reading other threads found the problem was down to using Filtered HTML. To get around this problem without having to change the Filtered HTML settings I added the line

$shout->url=preg_replace('/<.?(p|br)>/','',$shout->url);

just before the line

$title = "Posted " . date('m/d/y', $shout->created) . ' at ' . date('h:ia', $shout->created) . ' by ' . $shout->username;
About line 732.

This now strips out any
and

tags from the url.

Greg

cgiscripts4u’s picture

cgiscripts4u commented

OK after reading other threads found the problem was down to using Filtered HTML. To get around this problem without having to change the Filtered HTML settings I added the line

$shout->url=preg_replace('/<.?(p|br)>/','',$shout->url);

just before the line

$title = "Posted " . date('m/d/y', $shout->created) . ' at ' . date('h:ia', $shout->created) . ' by ' . $shout->username;
About line 732.

This now strips out any
and

tags from the url.

Greg

disterics’s picture

disterics commented
Status: Active » Closed (won't fix)

I think I fixed this in the 5.x version. Please upgrade and reopen this issue if its still a problem.