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PostPosted: 12:29 - 30 Mar 2006    Post subject: Long URLs Reply with quote
How about something to shorten URLs (obviosuly just the display, not the actual link Smile ) over a certain length so that they don't expand the width of the page?
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veeeffarr
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PostPosted: 12:35 - 30 Mar 2006    Post subject: Reply with quote
How about enclosing URL tags as a preprocessing thing to all posts before entry into the database?

For example...

https://www.ebay.co.uk/DSIaiodud0981290e2819089018d19082e198

Becomes

https://www.ebay.co.uk/...
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G
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PostPosted: 12:39 - 30 Mar 2006    Post subject: Reply with quote
That's what I meant for output, though I suspect it would better done pre-display, though would take up slightly more processor power. This would mean that posts would be stored exactly as entered.

I'm sure you can get phpbb add ons to do this, one way or another.
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veeeffarr
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PostPosted: 12:52 - 30 Mar 2006    Post subject: Reply with quote
G wrote:
That's what I meant for output, though I suspect it would better done pre-display, though would take up slightly more processor power. This would mean that posts would be stored exactly as entered.

I'm sure you can get phpbb add ons to do this, one way or another.


I agree, it would probably cause a shitload of overhead.
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simon1221
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PostPosted: 21:58 - 20 Apr 2006    Post subject: Reply with quote
I see plenty of other forums do it, but maybe it is too resource - intensive to do it with form.
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