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

[glennrocksvb]

The article doesn't say to use HTML Module. Please read the article carefully again.

In the main.php file, replace the block where it says "insert your custom PHP code here" with the code you have for this mod.

[HaMooooDi]

the code I used

$rightlink_host = parse_url($rightlink, PHP_URL_HOST);
$forum_baseurl = vB::getDatastore()->getOption('frontendurl');
$forum_host = parse_url($forum_baseurl, PHP_URL_HOST);        

// if same host, then use the link directly
if (vB5_String::stripos($rightlink_host, $forum_host) !== false) {
    $myhtml = "<a href="$rightlink" target="_blank"" . ($is_external ? ' rel="nofollow"' : '') . ">$text</a>";  
}
else { // link to your redirect page and pass the encoded external link

    // specify path of the redirect URL (exclude forum base url) including the querystring parameter name
    // this is the path you used when you created the redirect page in Sitebuilder
    $redirect_path = "/redirect?url=";

    $myhtml = '<a href="' . $forum_baseurl . $redirect_path . urlencode($rightlink) . '" target="_blank"' . ($is_external ? ' rel="nofollow"' : '') . ">$text</a>";
}  

[HaMooooDi]

I don't have access to a computer right now to try it myself but try replacing return with $myhtml =. Then follow the rest of the instructions in that article.

tried doing that but I got error with the all the forum see attached , just to confirm what to do with PHP module ? it is not existed any more I placed the code from the article in HTML module is that correct ?

[glennrocksvb]

I'm referring to the PHP code you posted in post #37

[glennrocksvb]

I don't have access to a computer right now to try it myself but try replacing return with $myhtml =. Then follow the rest of the instructions in that article.

[HaMooooDi]

Try replacing the 2 instances of the return statements into:

$myhtml = "the html string here";  

thanks for reply , could you please provide more explanation what is exactly to be changed in the original PHP code ?

[glennrocksvb]

Try replacing the 2 instances of the return statements into:

$myhtml = "the html string here";  

[HaMooooDi]

Any update to make this Mod works


could any body compile this help topic from vbulletin forum into readable instructions

https://forum.vbulletin.com/articles/vbulletin-5-connect-aa/reference/4445230-including-custom-php-in-modules

[HaMooooDi]

Any update to make this Mod works

[HaMooooDi]

all PHP modules stopped by design after the latest security update

The PHP module will no longer work after applying the latest security patch. This is by design. This redirect would have to be reworked using a custom API extension or Javascript. See: https://forum.vbulletin.com/articles...php-in-modules

[HaMooooDi]

Hi

it seams it is not working for in RSS feeds, is their any way to enable it there also ?

[HaMooooDi]

I used the same method you described, however I discovered the issue in the code the below code with small adjustment worked for me perfectly

$rightlink_host = parse_url($rightlink, PHP_URL_HOST);
$forum_baseurl = vB::getDatastore()->getOption('frontendurl');
$forum_host = parse_url($forum_baseurl, PHP_URL_HOST);        

// if same host, then use the link directly
if (vB5_String::stripos($rightlink_host, $forum_host) !== false) {
    return "<a href="$rightlink" target="_blank"" . ($is_external ? ' rel="nofollow"' : '') . ">$text</a>";  
}
else { // link to your redirect page and pass the encoded external link

    // specify path of the redirect URL (exclude forum base url) including the querystring parameter name
    // this is the path you used when you created the redirect page in Sitebuilder
    $redirect_path = "/redirect?url=";

    return '<a href="' . $forum_baseurl . $redirect_path . urlencode($rightlink) . '" target="_blank"' . ($is_external ? ' rel="nofollow"' : '') . ">$text</a>";
}  

thanks alot

[HaMooooDi]

hi thanks for the mod however I noticed some issues, it will be grateful if you can help me with

once applying the above the forum base links is redirecting to invalid link please see the attached screenshots

it is directing to
/vb/$rightlink

instead of
/vb/node/224397

also I have file upload script in the same domain of my forum the same issue noticed with the links added to my forum

it is directing to
/vb/$rightlink

instead of
/up/do.php?id=1501

[glennrocksvb]

I updated the code in the first post. Could you try again?

There's a bug in vB where backslash "\" in posts are stripped off. The code has "\" that were stripped off which would cause syntax error. This could explain why the mod stopped working.

I found a workaround to prevent a backlash from being removed from posts by using double backslashes.

[glennrocksvb]

Theoretically it should be compatible as there's nothing special being done that would break in future PHP versions. But I'd have to check to verify.