Post tag

[Zachrulez]

I'm also asking about this in an MD thread and it seems like a really dumb question but I'm really struggling with it.

How do you edit in a post tag that actually links to the post you want to link to? Everytime I do it, it changes the post number to the opening post.

[chamber]

You can make links to specific posts using the

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[post]

tag.

Post 117
This is an example
117

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[post=117][/post]
[post=117]This is an example[/post]
[post]117[/post]

[Zachrulez]

Yeah, I actually got it to work.

It's actually very picky with the formatting. You apparently can't clump it together with other tags on the same line for some reason.

[chamber]

Yeah, I actually got it to work.

It's actually very picky with the formatting. You apparently can't clump it together with other tags on the same line for some reason.

As the person that added the tag, that seems unlikely to me. If you show me an example of whats failing I'll figure out why.

[Zachrulez]

Yeah, I actually got it to work.

It's actually very picky with the formatting. You apparently can't clump it together with other tags on the same line for some reason.

As the person that added the tag, that seems unlikely to me. If you show me an example of whats failing I'll figure out why.

Now that I fixed it, I'm not sure how tricky it will be to go through the process of reproducing it. I'll try to recreate what I did.

Edit: Got it. Made a test post in reply with the relevant code. Also made a 2nd reply with a 2nd issue I didn't previously mention. (What I'm doing is copying the link address from post 4, and then erasing it down to the post ID.)

[Zachrulez]

Test post:

I think I got the problem to reproduce with the code in it's current form. I try to edit the post ID of my previous post in this thread, (Post #4) and it changes the ID to that of post 0 instead.

Spoiler:

Link

Intended to be a link to post #4

[Zachrulez]

And a separate thing I found. When you put the # before the post ID when entering it in, it breaks the post tag, even though the code puts it in when you enter everything after the # anyway.

Test post:

Spoiler:

Link

[post=#p5946673]Intended to be a link to post #4[/post]

[Zachrulez]

The problem seems to be entering the p in. (It was a headache for me because it wasn't obvious what I was doing wrong.)

When you enter in #5946673 it works, but when you enter in p5946673 it changes the post ID to #5942873

I guess I'm copying and pasting the wrong part of the link to begin with, but it still seems strange to me. If I'm simply doing it wrong, you'd think the link wouldn't work at all.

[chamber]

I wrote the tag and overloaded it to accept as many 'incorrect' uses as I could think of at the time. I didn't consider the p one, mostly because it's not really intended to be used with the # directly. It seems easier to use the URL tag if you are bothering to get the post ID anyway?

[Zachrulez]

I wrote the tag and overloaded it to accept as many 'incorrect' uses as I could think of at the time. I didn't consider the p one, mostly because it's not really intended to be used with the # directly. It seems easier to use the URL tag if you are bothering to get the post ID anyway?

Full context.

I was putting the code together for Thesp's vote counter and his example posts showed the links being marked with post tags. I didn't deviate from it because I wasn't sure if it would work unless I did it exactly how it was shown in the example. (Of course then I still made a bunch of easy to overlook mistakes anyway.)

That is literally the only reason I bothered with the post tag, and it's the first time I've attempted to use it.

In any other situation, I would have just used the url tag and not had a problem, because it works for me and why fix what isn't broken?

[BlueBloodedToffee]

Alright, need to bump this.

I can't figure out how to change a hyperlink so that it says what I want.

For example, if I'm linking to a completed game, instead of it actually showing the URL address it says 'Newbie 1495' or whatever I want it to say.

I'm seriously bad with technology so please explain it in the simplest way possible. I don't understand the code things that are going on in this thread.

[SleepyKrew]

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[url=put the URL here]put the message here[/url]

[BlueBloodedToffee]

http://forum.mafiascum.net/viewtopic.ph ... ewbie 1495

[BlueBloodedToffee]

Newbie 1495

[BlueBloodedToffee]

Got it!

Thanks!