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I’m having a strange problem with the output of a matrix text field going from 1.7.0 to 2.1.3

Here’s my template code snippet:

{blog_roll}
<li><a href="http://{site_url}">{site_name}</a></li>
{/blog_roll}

in 1.7.0 it outputs:

<li><a href="http://blog.sfmoma.org/">SFMOMA Open Space</a></li>

In 2.1.3 the same template referencing the same data outputs:

<li><a href="http://a">http://blog.sfmoma.org/</a>">SFMOMA Open Space</a></li>

Why is matrix wrapping my URL text with HTML in 2.1.3? Is there a setting somewhere I’m missing?

Any help much appreciated!

Which version of Matrix are you using, has it been upgraded as well for 2.1.3?
In short it looks like the old “automatically turn my URL’s to links setting”, but that does not really make sense for this field type, but check your channel settings.

If not i would suggest speaking to Brandon/Pixel and Tonic and see if they have had similar reports.

Thanks for the assist, nevsie.

David, if this were just a textarea field, I’d check to make sure the channel isn’t automagically converting the URLs to links. If that doesn’t fix the problem, then it’s time to ask Brandon. Does that make sense?

Thanks Nevsie and Sue, yep it was the channel posting preferences setting. From Brandon:

Go to Admin > Content Administration > Channels > [channel name] Edit Preferences > Channel Posting Preferences, and change the “Automatically turn URLs and email addresses into links?” setting to ‘No’.

That did the trick!

Glad things are working again.. Feel free to start a new thread if you have any more questions.