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Cant seem to put mailto links into announcements and course banners

• gtilflm
  

  2010-08-09 19:30:00

  Cant seem to put mailto links into announcements and course banners

  Hello. I'm working with 2.0 and I'm trying to put an email link into a course banner. The HTML is fine, but when I view the page, it outputs as:
  
  [php]<a mailto:support@liveonlinemath.com="" href="mailto:%3Ca%20href=">support@liveonlinemath.com</a>[/php]
  
  I've confirmed this behavior on the demo server installation with an announcement called "link testing". Normal links work fine, but mailto links get messed up.

• harris
  

  2010-08-10 09:48:13

  Re: Can't seem to put mailto links into announcements and course banners

  Confirmed, thanks. Have added this to our bug tracker.

• gtilflm
  

  2010-08-10 15:47:23

  Re: Can't seem to put mailto links into announcements and course banners

  Harris,
  
  By the way, I noticed that the mailto link is properly coded in the AT_courses database table. So, it must be something in the output that's failing.
  
  Hope it helps.

• greg
  

  2010-08-10 17:29:14

  Re: Can't seem to put mailto links into announcements and course banners

  You should just need to type in the email address, and it will display as a mailto link. Add a space before and after the email address.

• gtilflm
  

  2010-08-10 17:55:35

  Re: Can't seem to put mailto links into announcements and course banners

  Greg,
  
  I tried doing the space before and after a plainly entered email and similar behavior still occurs.
  
  Any other ideas?

• gtilflm
  

  2010-08-13 19:18:15

  Re: Can't seem to put mailto links into announcements and course banners

  Greg/Harris,
  
  Just wanted to see if there was any more movement on this, or if it's just in the bug tracker.
  
  Thanks!

• harris
  

  2010-08-16 09:34:21

  Re: Can't seem to put mailto links into announcements and course banners

  Sorry about the delayed respond. We have confirmed it and it extended to another problem as well. I have fixed the bug on the trunk but we are testing it some more. I will issue a patch once this is completed. Thanks.

• gtilflm
  

  2010-08-16 10:50:57

  Re: Can't seem to put mailto links into announcements and course banners

  Harris,
  
  Good to hear that part of it is fixed, but what do you mean by "trunk"?
  
  Thanks.

• harris
  

  2010-08-16 11:58:46

  Re: Can't seem to put mailto links into announcements and course banners

  Our subversion repository which keeps track of the code revisions. In other words, the place where the fixes would appear in the next release.

• gtilflm
  

  2010-08-16 12:22:56

  Re: Can't seem to put mailto links into announcements and course banners

  Ok, great.
  
  One last question. Was it just the index.php (or index.tmpl.php) file that you changed to allow the displaying of mailto links?
  
  Thanks.

• harris
  

  2010-08-16 13:58:08

  Re: Can't seem to put mailto links into announcements and course banners

  It's actually going to be the
  
  include/lib/output.inc.php
  
  Themes won't be affected. :)

• gtilflm
  

  2010-08-16 14:18:16

  Re: Can't seem to put mailto links into announcements and course banners

  Great. Thanks alot.