Hi

Just finished creating my first extension based on this thread.

The latest version including a short documentation can be found here:

URL Field Extension for Expressionengine

I really love EE, don’t get me wrong, but one thing i have to rant about is the missing API for developers. Hooks and all are nice, but if you have use preg_replace so many parts of HTML code to build-in your functionality the happyness stops. I just hope EE 2.0 will correct this and provide a better API for developers.

Peter,

Let me be the first to say a very big well done on this one. A fantastic little extension that does exactly what it says on the tin and then some!!

Brilliant addition to ExpressionEngine. Thanks again!

Best wishes,

Mark

Peter,

Great work.  I just posted a request for this last week, and here it is!  Bravo.

Ben

This might be totally missing the point of your extension, but would it be possible to add an option to remove the formatting that is produced through this field type? I wanted to do something like this:

I know this can be done with a standard text field, but I think the validation check is a good idea. I’ll be having some more novice computer users updating the site, so it would be great if the validation check can give them a sense of pattern for publishing.

Cheers!

Hi

I’m not aware of any formatting issues? You can chose the url_field (as any other field type) not to have any formatting.

If I type “http://www.example.com” in the url_field, the url is returned exactly as is.

That’s odd.. I’m not getting the same results. When I try and edit the formatting for the URL Field, it basically says that “Text formatting is not available for your chosen field type”.

When I plug in {source} into a template, which is the name of my URL field, I get this outputted:

Seems formatting is done automatically, so I can’t specify a name for the link. Ideas are appreciated.

Try going to :

Admin->Weblog Administration->Weblog Management->Edit Preferences (Your Weblog Name)->Weblog Posting Preferences->

You should see an option that says :

Automatically turn URLs and email addresses into links?

Change that to No and see if that fixes it?

Best wishes,

Mark

Thanks Mark, faster as usual

That should chang the behaviour indeed mr_dimsum, please report back if not.