UBB.threads PHP Forum Software Community Forums Thread Like Summary - Active links corrupts image links/urls

Hi

Let see if I can sort this out so you understand.
On my britbike forum
https://www.britbike.com/forums/

I use active links and have done it for a long time. certain words are converted to links and points often to ebay in order to generate a little revenue.
It has worked fine until a couple days ago when a member alerted me that it can screw up for example image urls.
The word is "triumph" which is a motorcycle brand in this case and the meaning was to create "triumph" active links.
Then a member Stuart embedded an image from another site in a topic and it didn't display properly.
see below link but be aware of that I have now deleted the active link for the word "triumph"
the reason was that the linked image had the word triumph in their url.

https://www.britbike.com/forums/ubb...linked-images-display-problem#Post840886

Could it be possible to fix this so that when we embed or use an img url that the active link feature does not turn the words in the image url and into a <a href=""> link ???

Added a new question, Could it be set so that when a word is in a url the world will not be converted to an active link

such as this link https://www.triumph.com or https://www.triumph.com/image.jpg
neither of the above two words "triumph" urls should be converted to an active link.. could it be done??

Thanks

Thanks Isaac I sure appreciate that you’ll look into this.

There are two types of filters in UBB.threads; the censor is a filter that affects post content being inserted into the database and is a simple tool which does a simple find/replace, whereas the Active Text is a powerful tool which preforms a regex match based on the keywords in your active text settings when the content is being read from the database to the user requesting the post content. With both of these tools we're instructing PHP to replace all matches within the post body.

The recommendation for you is to use a more broad set of keywords for your active text entries; instead of "triumph" which is a fairly common english word (meaning victory), try matching "triumph bikes" to get around the regex matching the keywords within URL or Image entries. Examples would be instead of "oil"/"oil filter" or "air"/"air filter".

To be honest I do not use this feature at all for the very same reasons.
In fact at this site it used to be if I posted
UBBWiki
That was a active link.
Not anymore so I assume it was deleted for the very same reason or it got changed to something else.

Besides all the items they have still on their todo list which I am sure they have.
I don't think the active text feature has even been addressed yet.
They have been busy just updating the software to be compatible with modern server software trying to tweak items along the way.
Plus providing some additional benefits that we can enjoy.

So be patient Grasshopper..