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Adrian_Horn YaBB Newcomer Offline Posts: 9 None	Can i add a tab that links to a https site rather than just http? Apr 15^th, 2013 at 10:40am
	I'm trying to add a new tab to the top of our forum, but the link automatically adds http in front of the address. I require it to add https instead. Is there anyway of doing this? Cheers Adrian


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depablo YaBB Moderators YaBB Next Team Beta Testers Offline Posts: 577 Location: UK None	Re: Can i add a tab that links to a https site rather than just http? Reply #1 - Apr 15^th, 2013 at 12:49pm
	Sorry for the delay, at work If your using the add tab function I copied and pasted the link to PayPal and it works. However on a later version of your board and I am not at home to access other test boards, someone will be along later with the solution
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Adrian_Horn YaBB Newcomer Offline Posts: 9 None	Re: Can i add a tab that links to a https site rather than just http? Reply #2 - Apr 15^th, 2013 at 1:16pm
	I'm using 2.5.2. Paypal automatically redirects to https if http is used. The site I'm linking to doesn't. It requires https to be used and will fail if only http is used. If add the full https address in the link, it sill tries to append http at the front of the link as well as having the https!


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depablo YaBB Moderators YaBB Next Team Beta Testers Offline Posts: 577 Location: UK None	Re: Can i add a tab that links to a https site rather than just http? Reply #3 - Apr 15^th, 2013 at 1:17pm
	Looks like this is one for our resident coders

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Dandello Da WebKitty YaBB Administrator YaBB Next Team Operations Team Beta Testers Support Team Offline Posts: 3,382 Location: Earth YaBB 2.6.1	Re: Can i add a tab that links to a https site rather than just http? Reply #4 - Apr 15^th, 2013 at 3:17pm
	That's a piece of coding we've been fighting with for ages and will be changed in 2.5.4. I'll be back with a fix for you after breakfast - hubby is getting cranky.

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Adrian_Horn YaBB Newcomer Offline Posts: 9 None	Re: Can i add a tab that links to a https site rather than just http? Reply #5 - Apr 15^th, 2013 at 3:25pm
	Dandello wrote on Apr 15^th, 2013 at 3:17pm: That's a piece of coding we've been fighting with for ages and will be changed in 2.5.4. I'll be back with a fix for you after breakfast - hubby is getting cranky. That would bre great, thanks.


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Bill Myers God Member Beta Testers Offline Posts: 1,866 Location: Los Angeles YaBB 2.4	Re: Can i add a tab that links to a https site rather than just http? Reply #6 - Apr 15^th, 2013 at 3:26pm
	Until a resident coder comes up with a fix for this, a relatively easy way to solve your problem is to add a PayPal tab in your menu that goes to a page on your site (index.html or index.htm) in a folder for your PayPal link. That file will automatically refresh to the PayPal link that you need (https versus http). That way, whenever your PayPal menu tab is chosen, that person will go straight to your PayPal account. So your YaBB's menu tab might link to the following: Code www.TypeYourSiteHere.com/PayPal In the folder listed above, the index.html or index.htm page you created will be on your server as follows: Code www.TypeYourSiteHere.com/PayPal/index.html The index page that you create above can simply include the following redirect in between the <head> and </head> tags: Code <head> <META HTTP-EQUIV=REFRESH CONTENT="0; URL=https://www.paypal.com/webapps/mpp/home-merchant"> </head> With the coding I've mentioned above, you'll of course need to replace it with the PayPal link that works for you. But hopefully you'll understand this solution. Good luck! Edited: Dandello wrote on Apr 15^th, 2013 at 3:17pm: I'll be back with a fix for you after breakfast ...

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Adrian_Horn YaBB Newcomer Offline Posts: 9 None	Re: Can i add a tab that links to a https site rather than just http? Reply #7 - Apr 15^th, 2013 at 3:26pm
	Bill Myers wrote on Apr 15^th, 2013 at 3:23pm: Until a resident coder comes up with a fix for this, a relatively easy way to solve your problem is to add a PayPal tab in your menu that goes to a page on your site (index.html or index.htm) in a folder for your PayPal link. That file will automatically refresh to the PayPal link that you need (https versus http). I see where your coming from (I'm not after a Paypal site - but I see what you're getting at). I was thinking about a redirect page as a work around myself. Thanks. That way, whenever your PayPal menu tab is chosen, that person will go straight to your PayPal account. So your YaBB's menu tab might link to the following: Code www.TypeYourSiteHere.com/PayPal In the folder listed above, the index.html or index.htm page you created will be on your server as follows: Code www.TypeYourSiteHere.com/PayPal/index.html The index page that you create above can simply include the following redirect in between the <head> and </head> tags: Code <head> <META HTTP-EQUIV=REFRESH CONTENT="0; URL=https://www.paypal.com/webapps/mpp/home-merchant"> </head> With the coding I've mentioned above, you'll of course need to replace it with the PayPal link that works for you. But hopefully you'll understand this solution. Good luck! Edited: Dandello wrote on Apr 15^th, 2013 at 3:17pm: I'll be back with a fix for you after breakfast - hubby is getting cranky.


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Bill Myers God Member Beta Testers Offline Posts: 1,866 Location: Los Angeles YaBB 2.4	Re: Can i add a tab that links to a https site rather than just http? Reply #8 - Apr 15^th, 2013 at 3:49pm
	Adrian_Horn wrote on Apr 15^th, 2013 at 3:26pm: I see where your coming from (I'm not after a Paypal site - but I see what you're getting at). I was thinking about a redirect page as a work around myself. Thanks. Cool. I routinely use redirects because of how many pages one of our sites has. That way, if or until an advertising link or email link is edited or deleted as they should be on individual pages, only one editing change in one file needs to be uploaded to our server. I do use editing software that replaces text on multiple pages as I need it, but using refresh has saved me and our staff a lot of work. Try fixing one bad link that's on a few hundred pages.

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Dandello Da WebKitty YaBB Administrator YaBB Next Team Operations Team Beta Testers Support Team Offline Posts: 3,382 Location: Earth YaBB 2.6.1	Re: Can i add a tab that links to a https site rather than just http? Reply #9 - Apr 15^th, 2013 at 4:34pm
	The YaBB fix is: in AdvancedTabs.pl find Code if ($taburl !~ /^\http:\/\//) { $taburl = qq~http://$taburl~; } Replace with : Code if ( $taburl !~ /^http:\/\//xsm && $taburl !~ /^https:\/\//xsm && $taburl !~ /^ftp:\/\//xsm ) { $taburl = qq~http://$taburl~; } else { $taburl = $taburl; } (This should work in 2.4, 2.5AE and 2.5.2)
	« Last Edit: Apr 15^th, 2013 at 4:35pm by Dandello »
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Bill Myers God Member Beta Testers Offline Posts: 1,866 Location: Los Angeles YaBB 2.4	Re: Can i add a tab that links to a https site rather than just http? Reply #10 - Apr 15^th, 2013 at 4:48pm
	Dandello wrote on Apr 15^th, 2013 at 4:34pm: This should work in 2.4 And it does! Your solution worked perfectly in our 2.4 forum! **************************************************** Edited:** Just in case any of you want to use a shorter version of Dandello's code ... In response to a post that Carsten made, Dandello posted, "And yours is so neat, maybe we'll use that one in 2.5.4 instead of mine." As I mentioned here in this post, I followed Dandello's lead, and tested Carsten's shorter/neater version in our YaBB 2.4 forum. I can happily confirm that it works perfectly. If you're interested, please go to this post of Carsten's so that you get his actual suggested code versus me quoting it here, and possibly making a mistake.
	« Last Edit: Apr 15^th, 2013 at 9:12pm by Bill Myers »
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Adrian_Horn YaBB Newcomer Offline Posts: 9 None	Re: Can i add a tab that links to a https site rather than just http? Reply #11 - Apr 16^th, 2013 at 8:26am
	Dandello wrote on Apr 15^th, 2013 at 4:34pm: The YaBB fix is: in AdvancedTabs.pl find Code if ($taburl !~ /^http:///) { $taburl = qq~http://$taburl~; } Replace with : Code if ( $taburl !~ /^http:///xsm && $taburl !~ /^https:///xsm && $taburl !~ /^ftp:///xsm ) { $taburl = qq~http://$taburl~; } else { $taburl = $taburl; } (This should work in 2.4, 2.5AE and 2.5.2) Perfect, thank you!


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