HELP wordpress,make dash in the middle of the hotlink...

[jozawa]

Hey KWWH,
wan to ask,what wp plugin must be use to make hotlink shorter by inserting dash in the middle of the hotlink.
before:

http://www.wupload.com/file/86559491/moviez.part3.rar

after:

http://www.wupload.com....9491/moviez.part3.rar

and when click into the link, it will redirect first into ad, then go to the original site
Any help or hints are much appreciated.
Thanks!

jozawa Reviewed by jozawa on 14th Aug 2011. HELP wordpress,make dash in the middle of the hotlink... Hey KWWH, wan to ask,what wp plugin must be use to make hotlink shorter by inserting dash in the middle of the hotlink. before: http://www.wupload.com/file/86559491/moviez.part3.rar after: http://www.wupload.com....9491/moviez.part3.rar and when click into the link, it will redirect first into ad, then go to the original site Any help or hints are much appreciated. Rating: 5

[Ashleyuk1984]

It could probably be achieved with some simple html / css coding.
I dont have time to look into it properly right now though.

In the meantime, try searching for plugins with this keyword - "Truncate"

---- edit ----

Ok, I had a spare second to take a look for you.
It seems like it's a PHP function that will sort this out for you.

What your trying to do it "truncate" so, I done a search for "truncate links"... and came up with these results.

http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=truncate+links&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a

The top link gives you more or less what you want - "I think". I'm not a PHP expert, but it looks like it will do the trick.

http://psoug.org/snippet/Truncate-Links-Over-X-Chars-long_230.htm

<?PHP
 
FUNCTION handle_url_tag($url, $link = ''){
     GLOBAL $FORUM_user;
 
     // maximum link length
     $MAXLEN = 50;
 
     // if too long, clip it to how many chars?
     $CLIPTO = 45;
 
     $full_url = STR_REPLACE(ARRAY(' ', '\'', '`', '"'), array('%20', '', '', ''), $url);
     if (strpos($url, 'www.') === 0)               // If it starts with www, we add http://
          $full_url = 'http://'.$full_url;
     else if (strpos($url, 'ftp.') === 0)     // Else if it starts with ftp, we add ftp://
          $full_url = 'ftp://'.$full_url;
     else if (!preg_match('#^([a-z0-9]{3,6})://#', $url, $bah))      // Else if it doesn't start with abcdef://, we add http://
          $full_url = 'http://'.$full_url;
 
     // Ok, not very pretty :-)
     $link = ($link == '' || $link == $url) ? ((strlen($url) > $MAXLEN) ? substr($url, 0 , $CLIPTO).' … '.substr($url, -10) : $url) : stripslashes($link);
 
     return '<a href="'.$full_url.'">'.$link.'</a>';
}
 
?>

But how to implement this, I don't exactly know. Hopefully others will drop by and help you out.
Anyway, I hope this helps you out at some degree :-)

[jozawa]

It could probably be achieved with some simple html / css coding.
I dont have time to look into it properly right now though.

In the meantime, try searching for plugins with this keyword - "Truncate"

---- edit ----

Ok, I had a spare second to take a look for you.
It seems like it's a PHP function that will sort this out for you.

What your trying to do it "truncate" so, I done a search for "truncate links"... and came up with these results.

http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=truncate+links&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a

The top link gives you more or less what you want - "I think". I'm not a PHP expert, but it looks like it will do the trick.

http://psoug.org/snippet/Truncate-Links-Over-X-Chars-long_230.htm

<?PHP
 
FUNCTION handle_url_tag($url, $link = ''){
     GLOBAL $FORUM_user;
 
     // maximum link length
     $MAXLEN = 50;
 
     // if too long, clip it to how many chars?
     $CLIPTO = 45;
 
     $full_url = STR_REPLACE(ARRAY(' ', '\'', '`', '"'), array('%20', '', '', ''), $url);
     if (strpos($url, 'www.') === 0)               // If it starts with www, we add http://
          $full_url = 'http://'.$full_url;
     else if (strpos($url, 'ftp.') === 0)     // Else if it starts with ftp, we add ftp://
          $full_url = 'ftp://'.$full_url;
     else if (!preg_match('#^([a-z0-9]{3,6})://#', $url, $bah))      // Else if it doesn't start with abcdef://, we add http://
          $full_url = 'http://'.$full_url;
 
     // Ok, not very pretty :-)
     $link = ($link == '' || $link == $url) ? ((strlen($url) > $MAXLEN) ? substr($url, 0 , $CLIPTO).' ? '.substr($url, -10) : $url) : stripslashes($link);
 
     return '<a href="'.$full_url.'">'.$link.'</a>';
}
 
?>

But how to implement this, I don't exactly know. Hopefully others will drop by and help you out.
Anyway, I hope this helps you out at some degree :-)

thanks Ashleyuk1984 , i will try that one