Comments on: The FindURL class (v1.0)

By: mars

mars — Mon, 04 Oct 2010 13:06:41 +0000

awesome!

By: The Hippy

The Hippy — Mon, 04 Oct 2010 11:06:54 +0000

I’ve replaced the class with a new version – http://www.burnedouthippy.com/2010/10/the-findurl-class-v1-2/ – this should make things easier for you in the future.

Cheers for the continued interest.

By: mars

mars — Mon, 04 Oct 2010 10:03:05 +0000

thats not what i replaced it with! i guess one of the website’s scripts kinda ripped what i originally posted.

By: mars

mars — Mon, 04 Oct 2010 09:58:36 +0000

Yes Thanks, I was just working on it, and i found that solution too!
I was just posting you this message when i got ur answer in.

I replaced line 27 of ur findURL class with this;

_wholeThing = textToProcess.replace(regExp1 , ‘ $2‘);

it works perfectly!
Thanks for ur support!

Hippy, your the best!

By: The Hippy

The Hippy — Mon, 04 Oct 2010 09:49:17 +0000

Ok dude, forget everything I said about getURL – I simply didn’t have a chance to look at my class properly (I go through very busy periods). Basically all FindURL is doing is returning a HTML tagged version of a string. So it looks for what could be a link in a text string and then adds HTML a tags.

So to make it open in a new browser you need to find the href part of the regex statement and add a target _blank. Open the FindURL class in an editor and look for:

href=’$2′

replace it with:

href=’$2′ target=’_blank’

and that should work the way you want it to. If I get around to it I’ll add a setting to the FindURL class so you can choose your target from the outset…but until then this should be a quick fix. Hope that helps!!

By: mars

mars — Thu, 30 Sep 2010 14:34:04 +0000

Hey Hippy,

You are saying i should use your getURL() class to get the links to open in a new window. I have no clue how to combine them.

Could you help me out?

thanks,

Mars

By: mars

mars — Thu, 30 Sep 2010 13:53:25 +0000

see u just answered my/our question. Thanks! you’re the bomb!

By: mars

mars — Thu, 30 Sep 2010 13:51:41 +0000

Hey, just what i needed! thanks! great class. works great! Just one question, is it possible to make the links open in a blnk window instead of itself?

Oh, im not the only one with this question. Hope to hear from u soon.

thanks,

Mars

By: mars

mars — Thu, 30 Sep 2010 13:50:44 +0000

Hey, just what i needed! thanks! great class. works great! Just one question, is it possible to make the links open in a blank window instead of itself?

Oh, im not the only one with this question. Hope to hear from u soon.

thanks,

Mars

By: The Hippy

The Hippy — Thu, 30 Sep 2010 13:21:17 +0000

Hey bf (I’m presuming you’re also Ben?), I never delete questions or comments unless they are spam…but occasionally I don’t check in on my blog and questions get missed from the approval process.

In answer to the Ben question, try using my getURL() class