By _viz_ on

Just curious... I've seen other blog software in use that automatically senses when you've inserted a link in your content (probably by the fact that it begins with http://) - I was curious, is there a way to get drupal to use this? It would be kind of handy, since using the HTML tags can be a bit monotous...

I am running a CVS checkout from about a month ago, btw...

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kika’s picture

kika commented

download a urlfilter module:
http://www.drupal.org/drupal/cvs/modules/urlfilter.tar.gz

_viz_’s picture

_viz_ commented

16 minutes after I ask a question I have it up and running. Its the community that makes Drupal the best - thanks a million, kika...

adamshand’s picture

adamshand commented

i tried to install urlfilter on a cvs site yesterday (cvs as of a few days ago) and it *seriously* mangled my html. i'm going to revert to rc1 and see if that's any better.

adam.

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dries commented

That is "normal", Adam. We've made some changes to Drupal CVS to make editing content a lot easier and to fix some annoyances/bugs. The downside is that old content might look mangled (with and without the URL-filter), so you'll want to fix the HTML by hand (until someone has come up with some conversion magic that does the work for you). Before you revert, give it a test drive, and try to understand the changes we've made. I'm sure you'll like it better.

adamshand’s picture

adamshand commented

i read about the changes which changed how it deals with

and
tags ... is this that (eg. the urls i emailed drupal-support about)?

actually it wasn't old content, it was new content i was adding after i'd added url filter (it was cut'n'pasted html from a wiki site we're migrating from).

adam.

dries’s picture

dries commented

Yes, it is related with the URLs you e-mailed to the drupal-support mailing list. Anyway, would you mind to e-mail the offending HTML snippet(s) to the mailing list so we can look at it?

raster’s picture

raster commented

The downside is that old content might look mangled...

Can you give an example of what might get mangled, and how?

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robiw commented

Using 4.6.5 with urlfilter module installed and active but links not working.

Have tried a number of entry modes with and without http: mailto: etc but nothing appears to work.

Must be missing something but can't find any other config or option switches in admin, settings etc.

Any pointers to what I'm missing?