I was just looking Mnjul's post in the last "trojan in MP!"-alert. He put two links to two threads. i imagined they where Patchou's well-known "how to get rid from ad-ware" and some other trojan alert. However I didn't know, and I didn't want to waste more time looking what the Thread were.
So here's my suggestion: When a member posts urls of threads or posts, it could automatically ask the database for the thread-id and convert it into a link to that thread/post with the name of the thread.

E.g.:

I type this in my new post:

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http://shoutbox.menthix.net/showthread.php?tid=21598

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How to uninstall ad-ware/sponsor

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Good idea but a tag like this would be more useful:
[thread=21598] and that becomes How to uninstall ad-ware/sponsor
[post=144278] and that is changed by Chris Boulton's reply in Patchou's thread: Note about Trojan detection

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Originally posted by Choli
Good idea but a tag like this would be more useful:
[thread=21598] and that becomes How to uninstall ad-ware/sponsor
[post=144278] and that is changed by Chris Boulton's reply in Patchou's thread: Note about Trojan detection

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Well, not bad, but my lazyness couldn't make me hink of adding any improvement to the myBB code.
And usually it's easier to copy the whole link.
If thread/post tags can accept full links, too, then...
so

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[thread=21598] would be the same as [thread=http://shoutbox.menthix.net/showthread.php?tid=21598]
[post=144278] would be the same as [post=http://shoutbox.menthix.net/showthread.php?tid=16516&pid=144278#pid144278]

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I like the auto-link feature (when you use the [url] command like we always have) it displays the page's title this way people (or maybe an option to display the pages title or not in a dialogue box) this way it's not too different than we use now.

But when you use the [url] tag, it already gives you the choice of setting your own link and it wouldn't be a good idea to somehow add a new parametes to it.
It's much easier to make the thread/post tags. I mean, technically.

Btw, it's not very safe to read titles from other sites that might contain any weird character messing it up and opening security holes.

woah nice idea Keystorm..

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Originally posted by KeyStorm
[thread=21598] would be the same as [thread=http://shoutbox.menthix.net/showthread.php?tid=21598]
[post=144278] would be the same as [post=http://shoutbox.menthix.net/showthread.php?tid=16516&pid=144278#pid144278]

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It's a very cool idea, and very possible, but I'll have to think about it. I suppose you'd want me to add it in newthread, newreply, and editpost just like [attachment]...

I like the [thread=num] and [post=num] because there's less crap in there to parse, but they would be less convenient for the user with a full URL in their clipboard.

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Originally posted by KeyStorm
Btw, it's not very safe to read titles from other sites that might contain any weird character messing it up and opening security holes.

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Originally posted by WDZ
Other sites? What other sites?

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Originally posted by anubis_kree_
I like the auto-link feature (when you use the [url] command like we always have) it displays the page's title this way people (or maybe an option to display the pages title or not in a dialogue box) this way it's not too different than we use now.

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Oh... I wasn't sure what he meant by that. I'm definitely not opening connections to other sites, downloading pages, and parsing <title>s out.

Indeed I also had it difficult to decrypt that one

Well you can give a person a link to a thread but not to a specific post in a thread (well you can but you cant get that link from the forums) I always thought we needed a button next to the "edit" and "find" buttons in that little bar after every post that said "url" and it would copy the link to the post? I think that would be useful

blah, u just have to click on the date in the post (below ur avatar) and u will get the url to the post
is not that hard

ohhhhhhhhhh so THATS how u get it ty chrono (i like Mippo's idea though, about copying the posts link to clipbaord auto)

And i like KeyStorm's idea btw but it has to be easy to do

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Originally posted by Kao
And i like KeyStorm's idea btw but it has to be easy to do

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inserting sumthin like

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    $patterns[] = "#\[thread=(.*?)\](.*?)\[/thread\]#si";
    $replacements[] = '<a href="http://shoutbox.menthix.net/showthread.php?tid=\1\2" target="_blank">\1</a>';
    $patterns[] = "#\[post=(.*?)\]";
    $replacements[] = '&pid=\1#\1';

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Originally posted by martin
should work for like [thread=num][post=num][/thread]

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Originally posted by WDZ
I like the [thread=num] and [post=num] because there's less crap in there to parse, but they would be less convenient for the user with a full URL in their clipboard.

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Originally posted by Kao
like Mippo's idea though, about copying the posts link to clipbaord auto

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Originally posted by martin
should work for like [thread=num][post=num][/thread] returning http://shoutbox.menthix.net/showthread.php?tid=(n...pid=(num)#pid(num)

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, Wow, I had a good idea (after the e-mail notifications idea I felt like my electronic brain was a little cold )
I'm happy it's going to be added.

Well, I never said it would be added... I'm just going to make a separate test script to find out if there are any problems. If the testing goes well, then I will add the feature to the board.

BTW, I'm probably not going to do the [thread=1] thing... you'll have to include the whole URL, which is the easiest way.

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Originally posted by WDZ
BTW, I'm probably not going to do the [thread=1] thing... you'll have to include the whole URL, which is the easiest way.

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Originally posted by Choli
why not?

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where's the difference between [thread] and [post]?

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Originally posted by WDZ
[thread] returns a thread subject linked to a thread. [post] returns something like "WDZ's reply to Suggestion: Thread titles in links" linked directly to that specific post.

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Originally posted by WDZ
Because I'd probably have to parse [thread=http://...showthread.php?tid=1] and [thread=1] separately

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Originally posted by WDZ
Why do you want to make more work for yourself deleting most of the URL?

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He means that you'll have more work because you have to cutoff the tid/pid from the URL, instead of copying the whole URL.

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Originally posted by KeyStorm
He means that you'll have more work because you have to cutoff the tid/pid from the URL, instead of copying the whole URL.

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of course, this is why he refers only to [thread] and ie [post], because it's actually the same.
you can do [thread=http://shoutbox.menthix.net/showthread.php?tid=16516&pid=144278#pid144278] and it will return the thread, not the post, because it actually looks for (tid=([0-9].)) and the same for posts.

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Originally posted by Choli
won't you have to do the same for [post=1] and [post=http://...showthread.php?tid=22560&pid=214183#pid214183] ?

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Originally posted by Choli
don't let that be parsed. Just parse [thread=1] and [post=1]

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what if you put the thread number under hte "reputaion" part? that way it makes it a bit easier

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Originally posted by bob
what if you put the thread number under hte "reputaion" part? that way it makes it a bit easier

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hhhhhows about when you click the date bit, it copys the post number to clipboard?

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Originally posted by WDZ
But then users would have to do this...

1. Start tag: [thread=
2. Paste in URL: [thread=http://shoutbox.menthix.net/showthread.php?tid=22560
3. Delete most of what they pasted in ("http://shoutbox.menthix.net/showthread.php?tid=").
4. End tag.

Why not eliminate step 3?

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Originally posted by bob
hhhhhows about when you click the date bit, it copys the post number to clipboard?

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i dont think this will be a very good idea, it could be confusing.. people prefer a website thats simple and easy to navigate, as opposed to a confusing bunched up mess

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Originally posted by WestCoastKillaz
i dont think this will be a very good idea, it could be confusing.. people prefer a website thats simple and easy to navigate, as opposed to a confusing bunched up mess

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Originally posted by Choli
I think that can't be done. With javascript you can't copy texts to clipboard

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Originally posted by KeyStorm
I think you can...

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* WDZ waits for example code

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Originally posted by WDZ
* WDZ waits for example code

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function ClipBoard()
{
holdtext.innerText = copytext.innerText;
Copied = holdtext.createTextRange();
Copied.execCommand("Copy");
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Maybe I could change the link on the date to the "copy to clipboard" script, because a link to what you're already viewing isn't useful.

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Originally posted by KeyStorm
And what if you want to link a specific post from another website?

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* WDZ goes to try the script

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Originally posted by WDZ
You use the javascript to copy the link to the clipboard, of course.
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That site where the script came from
The script uses a lot of commands proprietary to Internet Explorer 4.0 and above.

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Originally posted by KeyStorm
Ahm, all right, I thought you just wanted to copy the pid. Ok .

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copy something to the clipboard with javascript:
http://www.drweb.de/muster/clipboard.html
http://www.krikkit.net/howto_javascript_copy_clipboard.html

btw, although the scripts work, I don't like it to have again some more data loaded for each page you open on these forums, while you can easly right-click the date and select "copy link to clipboard" (or something like that) in your browser...

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PS: very dodgy protection: I write javascript and it becomes java script. Can't you make it so that only <script*language=["]javascript*["]*> is 'fixed'?

EDIT
Hmmm... above didn't change ... dodgy... dodgy...

Looks like none of these "copy-to-clipboard" scripts are going to work in Opera...

Now I forgot why we're even talking about javascript...

I should finish my test page for the [thread] and [post] tags...

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Originally posted by CookieRevised
PS: very dodgy protection: I write javascript and it becomes java script.

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Let's see...
[post=http://shoutbox.menthix.net/showthread.php?tid=22560&pid=214619#pid214619]

EDIT: I was just wondering if some admin was going to add it soon

I'm the only admin who could add it...

I haven't forgotten about it, but it's also not a priority.

tell us when it's ready (I know (supposed) you're the only admin chmodded to 0777 )

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Originally posted by KeyStorm
tell us when it's ready

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(I know (supposed) you're the only admin chmodded to 0777 )

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Originally posted by WDZ
A chmodded admin?

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I'm finally adding it... sorry for my laziness.

Just doing some final testing...

BTW, I still don't really see the usefulness... it would be more useful/convenient/cool if the tags were converted when the post is shown, but of course that's not efficient.

Excellent.  Is it working on this board now?

its been 3 months and 1 day between Keystorm and WDZs last post

First of all, good work, WDZ

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Originally posted by WDZ
* WDZ realized a few minutes ago that he forgot to add security to the feature for private threads...

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Choli's reply to test thread #3 ()

Choli's reply to test thread #3 ()

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Originally posted by eXoenDo
its been 3 months and 1 day between Keystorm and WDZs last post

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Choli's reply to test thread #3 ()

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Originally posted by Choli
i'm saying this because I can use them and everyone would see the thread title

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Originally posted by Choli
Another thing: The [noparse] doesn't work with the tags.

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Originally posted by Choli
btw, the preview of the posts doesn't recognize the tags

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Originally posted by Choli
You see that the " 's " is appended to Anubis. Shouldn't it be " Anubis' " ?

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Originally posted by Choli
isn't [thread=http://shoutbox.menthix.net/showthread.php?
tid=27677] supposed to work?

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Originally posted by Choli
First of all, good work, WDZ

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Originally posted by WDZ
* WDZ realized a few minutes ago that he forgot to add security to the feature for private threads...

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is that implemented? what kind of security did you add? That a non elite/smod/admin member isn't allowed to use those tags with tids and pids of private forums, right?

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Originally posted by WDZ
Blah... I replied in the other thread...

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Originally posted by WDZ
It's because [thread] and [post] don't use the normal post parser... that would be too inefficient. Limitation.

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Originally posted by WDZ
Same limitation as above.

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Originally posted by WDZ
Not exactly the easiest way to post many smilies...

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Originally posted by WDZ
I'm not that picky. I'm not gonna add code to check what the last char of the name is...  It just basically returns a string: "$username's reply to blah"...

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Originally posted by WDZ
No, that's not a URL.  It's a partial URL, a line break, and another partial url.

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Originally posted by eXoenDo
Thats me

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Originally posted by Choli
but it's like a bug, isn't it?

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Originally posted by WDZ

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Originally posted by Choli
but it's like a bug, isn't it?

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Maybe...

I dunno if it's worth fixing.

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