andyb2

did you ever solve this?

if you didnt, there are 2 options that i know of:

1. you download a plug in that allows you to add attributes to built in functions. I have never tried this but it looks cool! https://guff.szub.net/2005/01/27/add-link-attribute/

2. you edit the file wp-includes/comment-template.php, around line # 48. Add target=’_blank’

Hope that helps

I’ve sorted it out!

The reason this works is that there is a function comment_author_link() which does that. I didnt have that function in my code, just comment_author() and comment_author_url() which i was trying to use to achieve what comment_author_link() does.

Thanks for making me look into the code

so did you convince yourself of the issue?
What do you suggest?

i am not concerned with validation right now. The script above doesnt work.

All i am trying to do is hyperlink a commenters name if they leave a web site URL when making a comment. If they dont leave a url i just want to dosplay the name with no hyperlink.

The reason i am doing this is that i noticed that if you hyperlink all names with the url, then if the filed was left blank then the the default url is the name of the post. i dont want that!!

so i tried this php code, but it is giving me strange results:-

<?php
            $urlentered = comment_author_url();
           if (!empty($urlentered))
                echo '<span class="commentauthor"><a href="',comment_author_url(),'" target="_blank">',  comment_author(), ' </a></span>';
           else
                echo '<span class="commentauthor">',  comment_author(), ' </span>';
          ?>

The strange result is that the url – when present- gets printed before the span tag.

I’ve been struggling with this for days now!!!
cheers

So i tried this piece of javascript

<script language="JavaScript" type="text/Javascript">
	if (<?php comment_author_url(); ?> != null) {
 	  document.write('<span class="commentauthor">  <a href="<?php comment_author_url(); ?>"><?php comment_author(); ?></a></span>');
	} else {
          document.write('<span class="commentauthor">  <?php comment_author(); ?></span>');
	}
</script>

but i have now read that document.write is not supported un xhtml.

Any ideas what i could do??
cheers

<a href="<?php comment_author_url(); ?>"><?php comment_author(); ?></a>

woops i guess i didn’t escape my characters
here it is again, kind of!

“><?php comment_author(); ?>

does anyone know where wp-die function is located?

thanks

ok. nevermind.
I had erroneously made changes in post.php to redirect to post-thanks.php.

I guess post.php is called after an admin post

where wp-comments-post.php is called after a reply to a post

does that sound right?

thanks

Hi,

So i created a redirect but …

After comments are sent the user is redirected to a thank you page which looks great. I acheived this by modifying the $location variable in wp-comments-post.php.

However when i create new posts in the wordpress admin interface i get the following message

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected ‘<‘ in /home/…/post-thanks.php on line 2

Any ideas what this means?
thanks

Works like a charm. Thanks

Thanks guys,
I’ll give the plug in a try and see if i can customize it to my liking

Hi,
So to answer, i do not have WordPress installed on the new server. I just copied the files from the old server.

So i do not have a database associated with wordpress on the new server.

thanks

Initially i installed WP on my new server. I then uninstalled it. It was a different version. Old vesion is 2.1.3.

I then, as per the instruction from the above link said, copied all of the files that used to reside in my previous blog.

I did not create a new database either. All i did was to log into cpanel choose my sql databases then through phpmyadmin, i just tried to import the old database that i’d downloaded from my old server 10 minutes previous.

Thanks for the help
Andy

Thanks
That was great!

However, I have had a hickup. I downloaded the database as instructed, but when i try to upload the database (using import in myphpadmin) i get the following error:

SQL query:

— phpMyAdmin SQL Dump
— version 2.9.0.2
— https://www.phpmyadmin.net
—
— Host: localhost
— Generation Time: Jun 08, 2007 at 01:17 PM
— Server version: 5.0.27
— PHP Version: 4.4.2
—
— Database: bello3_wrdp1
—
— ——————————————————–
—
— Table structure for table wp_categories
—
DROP TABLE IF EXISTS wp_categories ;

MySQL said: Documentation
#1046 – No database selected

What is this telling me i am doing wrong?
Any ideas?

Thanks