How to change external links to internal links to do something before redirecting to the destination

[Menderley]

Thank you so much.

[glennrocksvb]

You can disable "Can create link" permission in Usergroup Manager in AdminCP.

[Menderley]

Can i deactivate link Content?

[glennrocksvb]

This hack doesn't work in Link content type. It only works in external links entered inside the editor itself.

[Menderley]

But the button ... (sorry i have to made a double post)

... it doesnt work Do you have a modification for this too? Or did i smth wrong?

[Menderley]

Thanks for this modification. It works fine for me.

Edit: one question.
How can i made this for the "insert link" button?
This mod is for the links that the member type in text

a.e.: www.google.de

But the button ... (sorry i have to made a double post)

[glennrocksvb]

What kind of tracking do you want? Track who clicks what link and when? And then count the clicks per link?

[William]

What's the best way to track someone clicking what link and resulting redirect page? I am watching Google Analytics "live" and seeing people being redirected to the page. This is a wonderful addition if it can be tracked from an admin's point of view. So often it seems that someone is just replying to a title rather than the article in a discussion. It would be quite nice to be able to verify this .... . as it would save me much breath in ignoring such users that I see ignoring the article.

Also is it possible to have a "proceed offsite" and "go back to thread" buttons in case someone doesn't want to be redirected out of the site?

Enjoy,
William

[moded]

Thank you Glenn and William it is working perfect
here test
can you add to above PHP module , redirect the user when he ask to download attached file , already upload in forum root ?

[glennrocksvb]

Glad you figured it out.
And thanks for the cream and sugar

[William]

I feel like an idiot, I didn't realize there were multiple places to change the code!!!!

You said: with these: (change $redirect_path with the appropriate path of the redirect URL)


Enjoy,
William

[William]

Do you still need to do this: with these: (change $redirect_path with the appropriate path of the redirect URL)

If we are using the vb cms as the redirect page? What would the url be if I did this mod for my site? I read this and about to give a try, I just wanted to be crystal clear beforehand: Save the page URL based on the page name: redirect (this is what you're going to use when editing the PHP file)

[glennrocksvb]

I have edited the first post to add instructions on how to create the redirect page.

[glennrocksvb]

You have a point. You can create a new page in vB5 and then include an HTML module to display a message and add a script to redirect to the external URL after a certain delay or after clicking a button or link. I will post detailed instructions on that when I get a chance.

[William]

Would be nice to include if possible a how to create an article page using Vb 5 and making that a redirect page. Not trying to create more work for you Glenn, but it just makes sense to me. That is, if it is possible to use the cms.