Remove Links from Activity Field

aery

My forum has got lot of spammers who keep on posting drugs related link on activity page of other users.

What should I do so that any thing that ends with .com doenst get converted to links.

Shouldnt activity field be only text based?

peregrine

I don't have your version of vanilla, but in 2.0.18.4

/applications/dashboard/views/activity/helper_functions.

search for this line
    <div class="Excerpt"><?php echo $Excerpt; ?></div>


and place this above it

      if (!preg_match("/\.com/", $Excerpt)) {
                    $Excerpt = "";
                     }

heres a little test program

<?php
$Excerpt = "joe.com";

if (!preg_match("/\.com/", $Excerpt)) {
            $Excerpt = "";
             }
 ?>            
<div class="Excerpt"><?php echo $Excerpt; ?></div>   

<?php
    $Excerpt = "just text";

if (!preg_match("/com/", $Excerpt)) {
            $Excerpt = "";
             }
 ?>            
<div class="Excerpt"><?php echo $Excerpt; ?></div>      

peregrine

if ((preg_match("http", $Excerpt)) || (preg_match("www", $Excerpt))) {

to remove the automatic formatting you would have to do a preg_replace

without testing something like this

(preg_replace("/\<a|a\>/","". $Excerpt))

peregrine

I don't have your version of vanilla, but in 2.0.18.4

/applications/dashboard/views/activity/helper_functions.

search for this line
    <div class="Excerpt"><?php echo $Excerpt; ?></div>


and place this above it

      if (!preg_match("/\.com/", $Excerpt)) {
                    $Excerpt = "";
                     }

heres a little test program

<?php
$Excerpt = "joe.com";

if (!preg_match("/\.com/", $Excerpt)) {
            $Excerpt = "";
             }
 ?>            
<div class="Excerpt"><?php echo $Excerpt; ?></div>   

<?php
    $Excerpt = "just text";

if (!preg_match("/com/", $Excerpt)) {
            $Excerpt = "";
             }
 ?>            
<div class="Excerpt"><?php echo $Excerpt; ?></div>      

peregrine

or you just could remove the ability to post on the wall completely.

aery

Excellent @peregrine. You are my Saviour.

But I think, you have to remove that not in preg_match.

And peregrine, dot coms, still show up in status. Any way to remove it.

I have implemented your first idea but I am interested in knowing how to remove ability to post on walls?

peregrine

I did the exact opposite that of what you wanted. Yes remove the not.

$Excerpt = "";
<div class="Excerpt"><?php echo $Excerpt; ?></div>  

You could remove view activity for members in the dashboard

aery

@peregrine this method proves ineffective for links not ending with dot com. example - http://www.google.co.in/

is there any way to remove automatic formatting of links?

peregrine

if ((preg_match("http", $Excerpt)) || (preg_match("www", $Excerpt))) {

to remove the automatic formatting you would have to do a preg_replace

without testing something like this

(preg_replace("/\<a|a\>/","". $Excerpt))

aery

Genius

peregrine

sub-mensa

aery

BTW for other users, the correct one is

if ((preg_match("/http/", $Excerpt)) || (preg_match("/www/", $Excerpt)))

peregrine

glad you "liked" it

aery

@peregrine

here is another problem i stumbled into. While going through self profile > activity I cannot see the links for which I have started because we have changed them by blanking $Excerpt.

Now, i have weired "You commented on a discussion.
Sorry, you cannot post links here."

Currently I have in activity helper function -

<div class="Excerpt">
<?php if ((preg_match("/http/", $Excerpt)) || (preg_match("/www/", $Excerpt)))

{$Excerpt = "<span style=\"color:red;\">Sorry, you cannot post links here.</span>"; echo ``$Excerpt;}

else echo $Excerpt; ?>

</div>

I have even tried by adding another if statement that matches if the link is from forum itselft but now the problem is the links are relative and does not contain forum url.

peregrine

so it won't ork with that....

if  (   ((preg_match("/http/", $Excerpt)) || (preg_match("/www/", $Excerpt)))  &&
(!preg_match("/http/yoursite.com", $Excerpt) )

aery

I have even tried by adding another if statement that matches if the link is from forum itself but now the problem is the links are relative and does not contain forum url.

As said, since the link is relative starting from / therefore yoursite.com doesnt work

peregrine

give me an example of one that won't match

if it is starting from / why does it have an http in it?

(what is in the excerpt variable).

I've got 5 minutes and then if I don't hear from you, I'll check back later

aery

Where it didnt work -
http://forum.gtricks.com/profile/activity

What it shows -
You commented on a discussion.
Sorry, no links for you

and

You started a discussion.
Sorry, no links for you.

Where "Sorry, no links for you" is my custom excerpt whenever preg_match finds "http"

It works in some places where the link is "/discussion/634/make-your-own-hitler-reacts-video"

but does not in places where the link is http://forum.gtricks.com/discussion/628/google-kills-igoogle-google-video-and-many-other

peregrine

what you need to do is

var_dump($Excerpt);

before and after the preg_replaces so I can see what the string does, so I can help you.

note the difference where it "works" and where it doesn't" post examples of the before and after var_dumps of $Excerpt (using the C code format button when you post your results).