URL Encoding Woes with Multiple Newsletters Extension
Development and Programming
I’m trying to use the Multiple Newsletters Extension (v.1.1) to allow the client to send HTML formatted newsletters. I’ve turned off both “Automatically Convert High ASCII Text to Entities” and “Automatically turn URLs and email addresses into links?” but on the “communicate” page I still end up with this:
This is a <a href="http://the_site_url.com/index.php?URL=http://the_target_url" title="test">test</a>Am I missing something? The HTML looks correct in the entry itself. I’m using 1.6.3 Build: 20080421
Edit: Oh that figures, it looks correct here. I’ll add a screenshot.
Should be:
This is a <a href="http://the_target_url.com" title="test">test</a>The links look like they’re being encoded as if they were redirects for some reason.
Since this is a third party extension, I’m going to move it to the Extension forum.
OK. I modified the first post so it would be more appropriate for the extensions forum, thanks.
I’ve been trying to find a solution to this too. I’m guessing it’s because all links created within the admin CP have the ?URL= appended to them as a security measure to protect the admin, but is there a way to turn this off for newsletters?
In “ext.multiple_newsletters.php” around line nummber 192 add this line
$newsletter = str_replace("http://yourdomain.com/?URL=http % 3 A % 2 F % 2 F", "http://", $newsletter);This will fix the URL problem. Stay warm -Michael
In “ext.multiple_newsletters.php” around line nummber 192 add this lineNOTE that$newsletter = str_replace("http://yourdomain.com/?URL=http % 3 A % 2 F % 2 F", "http://", $newsletter);is written with no whitespace. The forum is encoding it to html. This will fix the URL problem. Stay warm -Michaelhttp % 3 A % 2 F % 2 F
In “ext.multiple_newsletters.php” around line nummber 192 add this line$newsletter = str_replace("http://yourdomain.com/?URL=http % 3 A % 2 F % 2 F", "http://", $newsletter);
Thanks!
I had to modify it to include the index.php page I still have in there and made a variant for a secure page, but it does the trick! Thanks for pointing out to remove the spaces.
$newsletter = str_replace("http://thediaperbank.org/index.php?URL=http % 3 A % 2 F % 2 F", "http://", $newsletter);
$newsletter = str_replace("http://thediaperbank.org/index.php?URL=https % 3 A % 2 F % 2 F ", "https://", $newsletter);Hey thanks Michael, will try that out.
I’ve run into a problem with this again. Michael’s solution works fine for links to external sites in a newsletter, but links to pages on your own site then end up looking like http://path-to-page/