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icoombs
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Posted - 14 January 2008 :  07:49:14  Show Profile  Visit icoombs's Homepage
Hi all

I am trying to include some posts from my forum database on other pages in my site i.e. on my home page i have the 5 latest topics displaying. What i need to know is how do i convert the url tags from the posts to display correctly as hyperlinks i.e translate [url][/url] to <a href=""></a> so the links are clickable on the page.

I have found a function called FormatStr(fstring) and tried that but it seems to do nothing, could someone point me in the right direction on how to achieve this.

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Ian
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Are you using the Syndication mod ? If not, how are you showing the 5 most recent topics ?
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icoombs
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Posted - 14 January 2008 :  08:19:55  Show Profile  Visit icoombs's Homepage
I am just searching wit the following SQL query coded into the page.

strSQL = "SELECT TOP 5 * FROM forum_topics ORDER BY t_date DESC"
Set rsTopics = my_Conn.Execute (StrSQL)


Then a loop that displays the results but i need to change the url tags in the message to html links.
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HuwR
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Posted - 14 January 2008 :  09:45:06  Show Profile  Visit HuwR's Homepage
FormatStr is what you need, so what do you mean by it seems to do nothing ?
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icoombs
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Posted - 14 January 2008 :  10:48:33  Show Profile  Visit icoombs's Homepage
Hi thanks for the reply, i think the FormatStr is not working because other forum variables are missing.

After reading through the code in FormatStr i found the ReplaceURLs function which i now pass the string to directly and it works fine
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HuwR
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Posted - 14 January 2008 :  10:51:06  Show Profile  Visit HuwR's Homepage
the formatstr is not just for url's it is to formatted ALL forumcode, like smilies fonts etc
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