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I'm a beginner web developer and am very curious as to how all external connections are recognized and replaced (are they all?).
I know about regular expressions, but the ones I written myself don't handle the part where the url is connected to the text.
domain/pathblabla blabla is not part of the url.
how does f95zone do it

 

[Count Morado]

I'm a beginner web developer and am very curious as to how all external connections are recognized and replaced (are they all?).
I know about regular expressions, but the ones I written myself don't handle the part where the url is connected to the text.
domain/pathblabla blabla is not part of the url.
how does f95zone do it

Wrong forum to ask - don't even know if there is an applicable forum on this site to ask except maybe off-topic. You'd probably be better off looking for a site which has forums specifically for questions like this.

However, it's just a few lines of code which says, in brief - if user logged in, then show link class, else show spoiler class. It has nothing to do with the URL.

I don't know how "beginner" you are - but depending upon the application you are using to build a forum (Xenforo is used for F95), there is a wealth of custom code available for use if you have no clue how to do it yourself at the present time.

 

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thank you for your reply. it is indeed a bad idea to ask such questions here and I will follow your advice.
thanks again.

 

[anne O'nymous]

Wrong forum to ask - don't even know if there is an applicable forum on this site to ask except maybe off-topic.

I guess the dev section is the less off-topic for this. But there's a grumpy grandpa there that would sarcastically cringe I guess.

However, it's just a few lines of code which says, in brief - if user logged in, then show link class, else show spoiler class. It has nothing to do with the URL.

More precisely it's probably linked to the BBcode tag used. Server side when the page is built, there's something like:

CASE BBcode:
  [...]
  "link":
       ADD formatBBcode( content )
  [...]

FNCT formatBBcode( content ):
   IF UserLogged:
       return formatted content
   ELSE
      return obfuscation

And detecting if the user is or not logged is done through the cookies.