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The Ragin' South Asian · Head Poncho

In a quote tag, if the author name is given, it has to be put inside quotes (which seems apt enough). In a url tag, the url is not placed in quotes. Could one or the other be changed so that either both require quotes or don't require quotes? Or so that quotes are optional on both? The preview ability renders this not a big deal, but it would be nice to have it consistent, imo.
[quote=RSA]test[/quote]

raekuul · Lives under a bridge & tells stories.

it's the way PHP is set up. the string being displayed has to be in quotes, since it does not rely on the database (i think), whereas in the URL the string becomes part of the code, which would be booped because of the HTML code for "" <-- Those things ( i think ).

Nsof · Daedalian Member

FWIW, i agree with RSA.
Consistency contributes to usability.
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Courk · Daedalian Member

Well, it's not really inconsistent, though. The [xxx=] is similar, but is used to accomplish different things. With [url=] you're listing the website to use in the link, not wishing the entire url to be visible. [quote=" "] is used to actually display the part after =. If [url="http://www.greylabyrinth.com"] would show up as http://www.greylabyrinth.com then it'd make sense, but that's not what you want when you use [url=].

Samadhi · +1

As has been basically said:
url = http = no need for quotes
quote = string = "" is applicable

Changing the rules for this would be problematic since it's basic syntax for php. And since it's not inconsistant....for it to get changed I think the whole GL would have to rise up and demand it. Oh and probably some weather change in hell.
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Nsof · Daedalian Member

Samadhi · +1

nsof: good point, I did conflate the two. However, please click on Usergroups, then admin, then get back to me.
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Antrax · ESL Student

Samadhi gained admin rights after a brilliant move where he flooded the GL with spambots *nudge*

In any case, this is doable but I'm averse to it. Anything that has to do with quotes is a potential security hole, and I would prefer not to stray from the main phpBB branch on this.
However, if the demand were large, I could dedicate time to implement it. Poll?
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The Ragin' South Asian · Head Poncho

If it's a big deal, then it's probably not worth it.

Nsof · Daedalian Member

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what he said
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Poisonium · annoyed by the old

How many layers of irony are required to understand this? Confused

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