Broken Links... Again?

Stratadrake · Posted: Fri Oct 29, 2004 10:55 am Post subject:

Bug Report in Sector One.

I was commenting on a drawing, and because it was relevant, I tried to put in a few links. I should've known better -- the new bb code is a nice feature, but the code is conflicting with it. Just look what it did -- Not only did it break the URL's, but it broke the URL [b]tags[/b] themselves.

Grrr... not funny. I also have to ask, if this can happen to the URL tags, doesn't that mean it could happen to the other bb tags too?
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cstdenis · Posted: Fri Oct 29, 2004 3:33 pm Post subject:

That wrapping thing is being nothing but problems.

I have a planned replacement, but dont have time to impliment it.

If you can write a regular expression that can strip excess punctionation and duplicated letters, you can do so and I'll add it. Eg, recursively replace !! with !

such that !!!! becomes !! becomes !

unless you have a better way.

either way, I wont have time 'till next month to do it, there are other new improvements comming in whats left of this month (or early next).
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Stratadrake · Posted: Fri Oct 29, 2004 3:56 pm Post subject:

I guess there's some consolation that it's not a [i]new[/i] problem....

I was able to generate a test comment earlier today where it broke up a basic [/u] tag, but I guess the reason why it's more likely to happen on a URL tag is that URL= tags are simply longer.

Hmm... oh! On another note, there seems to be a newline problem in picture descriptions. I just updated the description for one of my pictures, and it got lumped all together into one mushy paragraph.

My experience in PHP and C coding is a bit thin (no real need for me to use those skills), but if we had a function to abridge [i]all[/i] double-letters and stuff, that would also abridge words like "cool" and punctuation like ellipses.

I believe have a C compiler on my PC somewhere that I can experiment with....
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cstdenis · Posted: Fri Oct 29, 2004 4:12 pm Post subject:

I would limit it to 4+ characters....I dont think there are any legit uses of 4+ same letter/symbol in a row (except maybe space or \n)
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Stratadrake · Posted: Fri Oct 29, 2004 5:22 pm Post subject:

Right... I don't think there are any English words with triple-letters, and besides that'd risk truncating the "www" portions of URL's.

There's definitely no single standard function for truncating any and all repetitions above a certain limit (like how there's a standard "wordwrap()" call), and recursiveness generally requires some loops... that plus some substr_replace, and pseudocode could look like:

[code:1]function truncate($text)
{
// "$text" contains the description/etc. to check

for(int c=0; c<strlen($text) -1; c++)
{

// Ignore BB code markup if
// performed before BB code processing.
//
// If performed after BB code processing,
// just specify '<' and '>' instead of '[' and ']'
// to ignore the processed BB (HTML) markup
//
if ($text[c]=='[')
{
c= strpos($text,']',c);
if (c == 0) break;

continue;
}

// Ignore newlines
if ($text[c] == '\n') continue;

// Do a case-INsensitive test for repeated chars.
// e.g. "OoOoOoOoO" type remarks will also be truncated
//
// Probably not the best way to code it though...
$c1 = chr($text[c]);
if (strcasecmp($c1, substr($text,c+1,1)==0))
{
for(int d=c+1; d<=strlen($text); d++)
{
// Locate the end of the repetition (the 1st char after it)
if (d==strlen($text) || strcasecmp($c1, substr($text,d,1)) != 0)
{
// If >3 repeated chars...
if (d - c > 3)
{
// Truncate them down to 3 repeated chars... I think
$text= substr_replace($text, $text[c], c+3, (d-c-3));
}
}
}
}
}

}[/code:1]

Hrmm. It's an idea, but I have no idea whether it'd work properly (I've nothing to test PHP with on my comp - a basic C compiler only goes so far) .
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OrochiLeona · Member Joined: 13 Aug 2004 Posts: 98

aahhh Hi I dont mean to bother but I want to see if this is the same problem that you have Strata !!

could you look at this link pllzz
http://www.fanart-central.net/pictures.php?pid=144057

I dont know if its the same or not ... I dont understand these things :wacko:

Stratadrake · Posted: Sun Nov 14, 2004 11:58 am Post subject:

Hmm.... other than the one URL draks put in his comment, I don't see what the problem is....
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OrochiLeona · Member Joined: 13 Aug 2004 Posts: 98

yes that what I ment the URL it got mixed with his comment :huh:

Stratadrake · Posted: Sun Nov 14, 2004 12:40 pm Post subject:

Far as I can tell, the URL was deliberate, not by accident. I see a broken
tag on it though, but I can't ascribe that to a bug either (since they're no longer necessary). Just strip the
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