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I'm trying to deny any website linking in stories or comments. So, I have http:// and www. in my personal blacklist. But, it was recently brought to my attention that if someone writes a word like "aaaaawwww" it will deny the entire story/comment.

Does anyone know of a way I can make it only include the exact match, like "www." (with the period) and ignore the rest?

Why not use the SNL-module for Spam-X to sort out posts with your pre-set allowed number of links?

You can also use regular expressions (regex) in your blacklist.

Why not just remove the <A> tag from $_CONF['user_html'] in config.php?

I removed all of the tags from there, unfortunately, typing just the text www.site.com automatically converts it to a valid URL link. Perhaps there is a way to turn that off?

Thanks, was able to correct it via regex:
www\.

Check your config.php

// disables autolinks if set to 1
$_CONF['disable_autolinks'] = 0; // 0 = autolinks enabled

I currently have mine set to "1", so I'm not sure why it would be creating links :

:rtfm: About Autolinks And Autotags

This, of course, has nothing at all to do with automatically creating clickable links in text-only posts (in stories and comments). Which can't be switched off, btw.


bye, Dirk

I spoke too soon. As an example, this seems to trigger the blacklist:
awwww. (would have a period because it was at the end of a sentence)

I'm using the regex expression:
www\.

All of this regex stuff is completely foreign to me. I looked on a few sites for examples for what I'm trying to do, but I can't seem to find a solution. Can anyone suggest the expression I should be using? I'm trying to block website addresses from being inserted into story/comment submissions. But, not cause problems for people using a word with multiple "w"s in it.

try /www\.\S/' which I believe only matches www. followed by a non-whitespace character. So "Awwww. That's cute" will not match but "Awwww.That's cute" will.