Add the ability to differentiate between caption and href [#1447672]

Let's say I have an original URL www.google.com.

Using an input filter, we'll get one of: http://www.tinyurl.com/1c2 OR www.tinyurl.com/1c2

The problem with the second one, is that my domain name is prepended to the href, which would work out to http://www.mydomain.com/www.tinyurl.com/1c2

My ideal situation would be to have http://www.tinyurl.com/1c2 as the href for the link, but the text for the link show up as tinyurl.com/1c2 (that's minus the http and the www)

hook_shorten_create doesn't help here as the URL returned will apply to both the href and the link text.

Thanks,
Mike

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Comment #1

IceCreamYou CreditAttribution: IceCreamYou commented 21 February 2012 at 05:00

Category:	feature	» bug
Priority:	Normal	» Minor

Hmm. I hadn't thought about that. The whole input filter thing was kind of an afterthought.

The most straightforward way to solve this is to just prepend "http://" to the $href in _shortener_url_behavior() in shortener.module if the $href doesn't already start with "http". I suppose that could get us into trouble though if there was a local shortening service that only returned relative URLs. So this will probably require adding an option to shorten_url() to specify whether the absolute URL is requested, and then _shortener_url_behavior() will have to manually strip the "http://" for the $caption.