June 15, 2007

BBCode Questions

Here's our main BBCode documentation page, plus information on pullquotes and image thumbnails.

Post further BBCode questions here.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at 04:40 PM | Comments (20) | Add Comment
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1 Moron requests help. Am trying to post with an embedded link
Example : Type in "Read an interesting article at Breitbart   today and thought you might like a look" and expect it to display as "Read an interesting article at Breitbart today and thought you might like a look"(making the word Breitbart a hyperlink). Instead it displays all the html (or BBCODE). What am I doing wrong?

Posted by: Metzger at June 28, 2007 04:35 PM (2eGp3)

2 If you just type the HTML into the editor, it will display the HTML code.

There are three ways to insert a link:

Use BBCode - that should work fine.
Use the little link icon in the toolbar: Select the text you want to make into a link, click on the "Hyperlink" icon (looks like a little chain), and type or paste the URL into the pop-up box.

Or (and I generally don't recommend this), use the HTML editor.  Click on the <> icon and you'll get a pop-up window where you can directly edit the HTML.  It works fine, but most people won't want to do that.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at June 29, 2007 03:00 AM (PiXy!)

3

That's a defense measure against spammers and hostiles who try to screw up a page by embedding HTML in comments. What he's done is to make it so that the left-angle-bracket character gets escaped (turned into "&lt;") so that it doesn't trigger the browser's formatting engine.

That way the only HTML that users like you are permitted to use are the ones supported by the editor or by BBCODE, which is a carefully circumscribed list that doesn't open up vulnerabilities.

Posted by: Steven Den Beste at July 17, 2007 03:30 AM (+rSRq)

4 Pixy, bug alert: Brickmuppet made a post whose title consists of three katakana characters. There doesn't seem to be any way to link directly to it; the link that should go to the post goes to the top page. Presumably that would also be the case if other non-Roman alphabets were used.

Posted by: Steven Den Beste at July 25, 2007 10:57 PM (+rSRq)

5 Another bug alert, while I'm at it: I just looked at my "site statistics" page, and the numbers for the "template" row are completely bogus. Whatever it's supposed to mean, this probably isn't the right answer: 92233720368523288563304384

Posted by: Steven Den Beste at July 25, 2007 11:12 PM (+rSRq)

6 I got an email from Brickmuppet; I'm looking into that.

And yeah, there's something that throws the stats out; that happened to me too.  Integer underflow, maybe.  I'll see if I can find it.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at July 26, 2007 02:08 AM (PiXy!)

7 Hi Steven.  I've fixed the bug with non-Latin characters in post titles; this will now generate a numeric URL (which you can manually override).

Still poking at the stats glitch.  It's certainly not anything obvious.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at July 26, 2007 03:03 AM (PiXy!)

8 Hi Pixy, is the stats page supposed to be working for everybody? My "Statistics" link still puts me back to http://oldgrouch.mee.nu/edit/

Posted by: Old Grouch at July 26, 2007 11:16 PM (WJKI0)

9 Yeah, it's supposed to be working.

I'll take another look.  Thought I had that one fixed.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at July 27, 2007 01:12 AM (PiXy!)

10

Pixy, somehow there was a partial post of a comment I was composing in this thread. (Unfortunately, the prose is loaded with spoilers about Shingu, and I'm sorry about that.)

I don't have any idea how it happened, especially since they both have the same timestamp. (At least to the minute.)

Posted by: Steven Den Beste at August 09, 2007 01:42 AM (+rSRq)

11 Thanks Steven.  Unfortunately there's not much to go on there; the two comments were received one second apart, but nothing really shows me why the first one was cut off or why the second one wasn't.

There's a retry-on-error system built into Minx now, but it shouldn't be happening on an HTTP POST.

Oh. Hmm.  All the text data for mee.nu (including posts and comments) is stored in MyISAM tables - which have no transaction support.  If there was an error during an insert, the Minx Query module would automatically re-connect to the database and retry the insert, but it's not smart enough to check if the original insert was partially successful.

Roll on MySQL 6.0 and the Falcon storage engine!

Posted by: Pixy Misa at August 09, 2007 12:34 PM (PiXy!)

12

Small bug report: When I enter a new post, at the bottom I'm told that there are 1281 comments, which I presume is the total number of comments on my blog so far. Once I finish and post it, then if I look again it says 0, which is right.

That 1281 seems wrong, somehow. It's not really serious, but it could confuse people.

Posted by: Steven Den Beste at October 27, 2007 10:18 PM (+rSRq)

13 Ah, thanks.  I hadn't noticed that one.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at October 28, 2007 01:06 AM (PiXy!)

14 Pixy, sent you an email.

Posted by: doubleplusundead at November 14, 2007 03:25 AM (VZv6D)

15 Is there a way to make the search field search titles as well as the body of the email?

Posted by: Flibbertigibbet at December 04, 2007 01:33 AM (ErOeR)

16 Not just yet, but I'm in the middle of reworking the search function right now.  Should be up in a few days (unless I run into a problem) - definitely before Christmas!

Posted by: Pixy Misa at December 07, 2007 12:17 PM (PiXy!)

17 Pixy, how do I make my site title (MLynn's Whippet House) smaller?  It runs off the right.  Thanks, MLynn aka Mikki

Posted by: MLynn at December 14, 2007 02:07 AM (AQvOP)

18 Hi MLynn!

You want the Style Images option.  Choose your starter image, change the font size to something a little smaller, and click on save.

You might need to do a forced reload (hold down shift and click the refresh/reload button) to get the new banner to display right away.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at December 17, 2007 06:02 AM (PiXy!)

19

My sidebar has disappeared; I no longer have my comments, my blogroll, or my archives.  Could you let me know what can be done? I would send you an e-mail, but I have no idea what server AOL uses.

Thanks!

Tim Birdnow

www.tbirdnow.mee.nu

Posted by: Timothy Birdnow at October 30, 2010 04:36 PM (TzBul)

20 My comments editor is cutting off the check boxes, making it impossible to delete spam comments. Any help would be appreciated.

Tim Birdnow

www.tbirdnow.mee.nu

Posted by: Timothy Birdnow at February 09, 2013 12:18 PM (X6ACQ)

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