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Pooterilliterate
December 10, 2005, 1:49am Report to Moderator Report to Moderator

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Why oh why can URL's not be shortened to a catchy title...

i.e huge URL type it in, nother box pops up to give it a catchy name and thats what shows in the thread??

OR is that already there and I just need to upgrade  


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Huh?  User [url=]name[/url], or let the forum shorten the URL's.  After x ammount of characters the URL is shortened.


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Huh?  User [url=]name[/url], or let the forum shorten the URL's.  After x ammount of characters the URL is shortened.


I realise that but its absolutely huge in some cases, I've taken to using tiny url to add links to a thread.

The x amount of characters is big and looks unslightly!!



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Search for this in Routines.pl:

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	if(length($url) > 100 && $URL{'v'} ne 'print') { $url = substr($url,0,30).'.....'.substr($url,length($url)-20); }


Change the 100 to whatever number you think is reasonable.  You could also change the other variables, but it'd be better to just keep those.

You could also change just all the URL's to be like [outside address] or something by editing this:

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	return(qq~$_[0]<a href="$_[1]" target="_blank">$url</a>~);


Change $url to [outside address].

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