mfBlank: External link recognition with icon suffix for Joomla! http://www.marcofolio.net Sat, 21 Nov 2009 07:16:59 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.2 http://www.marcofolio.net/joomla/mfblank_external_link_recognition_with_icon_suffix.html#josc1258 great this one too marco Took Mon, 03 Mar 2008 06:13:28 +0100 http://www.marcofolio.net/joomla/mfblank_external_link_recognition_with_icon_suffix.html#josc1283 What about us who has a dark template/background? The gif included is only useful for bright templates/backgrounds... Other than that, this was just what I was looking for! Thank you! Jon Mon, 03 Mar 2008 14:11:44 +0100 http://www.marcofolio.net/joomla/mfblank_external_link_recognition_with_icon_suffix.html#josc1284 Thanks for that, didn\'t think about it. I\'ve added a \"white\" version of the GIF in the article for those Joomla! websites with a dark template. Just overwrite the one included in the package with the one from the article and it should display nicely. Marco Mon, 03 Mar 2008 15:27:35 +0100 http://www.marcofolio.net/joomla/mfblank_external_link_recognition_with_icon_suffix.html#josc1285 Very, very nice and helpful extension!! Question: it does not appear work with the Weblinks component nor with secure socket (https)sites. Am I doing something wrong? Thank you for making this very useful tool available! Toasty Mon, 03 Mar 2008 16:02:50 +0100 http://www.marcofolio.net/joomla/mfblank_external_link_recognition_with_icon_suffix.html#josc1286 Indeed, it doesn\'t work with the weblinks component. Reason for this is that the URL\'s generated by the component are actually internal URL\'s. They just re-direct to another website. This script can\'t check that functionality. I\'ll add a https:// support in the next version of this plugin, stay tuned. Marco Mon, 03 Mar 2008 17:55:02 +0100 http://www.marcofolio.net/joomla/mfblank_external_link_recognition_with_icon_suffix.html#josc1288 I get the following error: Upload mambot - Upload Failed Unrecoverable error \"PCLZIP_ERR_BAD_FORMAT (-10)\" Any suggestions? DaveM Tue, 04 Mar 2008 04:57:56 +0100 http://www.marcofolio.net/joomla/mfblank_external_link_recognition_with_icon_suffix.html#josc1289 OK now, thanks. DaveM Tue, 04 Mar 2008 06:00:43 +0100 http://www.marcofolio.net/joomla/mfblank_external_link_recognition_with_icon_suffix.html#josc1290 Our current template (aqualine from joomlashack) provides link hover behavior via CSS. In our case, the background changes from white to blue (and the text from blue to white). When using this mambot, the hover behavior changes the text background to white (while not changing the text color). White on white is not very easy to read. DaveM Tue, 04 Mar 2008 08:31:15 +0100 http://www.marcofolio.net/joomla/mfblank_external_link_recognition_with_icon_suffix.html#josc1291 Hi, Thanks for that information. I had to remove your code from the comments, because it destroyed my page-layout. Anyway, I think I\'ll add your hover effect to the next release, it\'ll look pretty :woohoo: Marco Tue, 04 Mar 2008 08:34:24 +0100 http://www.marcofolio.net/joomla/mfblank_external_link_recognition_with_icon_suffix.html#josc1328 Here\'s the code that I added to mambots/system/mfblank.php (after the latter existing $mainframe->addCustomHeadTag call: $mainframe->addCustomHeadTag( \'table.contentpaneopen a.blank:hover{ padding-right:12px; background: #5D9599 url(\'. $mainframe->getCfg(\'live_site\') . \'/mambots/system/mfblank/icon_external.gif) no-repeat 100% 50%; }\'); DaveM Thu, 06 Mar 2008 06:34:27 +0100 http://www.marcofolio.net/joomla/mfblank_external_link_recognition_with_icon_suffix.html#josc1483 ...on original com_content. When using an override of com_content and his views the plugin didnīt work. Devil Thu, 27 Mar 2008 17:55:33 +0100 http://www.marcofolio.net/joomla/mfblank_external_link_recognition_with_icon_suffix.html#josc1505 Hi, Thanks Yassine Sun, 30 Mar 2008 20:22:39 +0100 http://www.marcofolio.net/joomla/mfblank_external_link_recognition_with_icon_suffix.html#josc1544 Greetings, Great plugin, but i found a bug on a Joomla 1.5 if having SEF active, the plugin puts css for image with url(plugin/mfblank/..etc.etc), when in a SEF page (with url www.domain.com/content/section/page.html) the link should not be relative but absolute with \"url(/plugin/etc..etc\" it should also consider the joomla installations in subfolders, which should put url(/plugins/etc Thanks again Rami Rami Sun, 06 Apr 2008 14:59:11 +0100 http://www.marcofolio.net/joomla/mfblank_external_link_recognition_with_icon_suffix.html#josc1573 Hi nice plugin but how to start it to work :( Is there special way to write this external link? Qbik Thu, 10 Apr 2008 09:53:30 +0100 http://www.marcofolio.net/joomla/mfblank_external_link_recognition_with_icon_suffix.html#josc1574 Are you sure you have the plugin set to \"published\" ? Marco Thu, 10 Apr 2008 11:43:45 +0100 http://www.marcofolio.net/joomla/mfblank_external_link_recognition_with_icon_suffix.html#josc1575 Yes it\'s published Qbik Thu, 10 Apr 2008 12:18:11 +0100 http://www.marcofolio.net/joomla/mfblank_external_link_recognition_with_icon_suffix.html#josc1577 Hi, I don\'t see it published on your website that you placed in your first post. Please contact me through the contact-form + add the website where you\'re trying to enable this mambot please. Greetings,,, Marco Thu, 10 Apr 2008 16:43:46 +0100 http://www.marcofolio.net/joomla/mfblank_external_link_recognition_with_icon_suffix.html#josc1595 It would be nice to be able to display the icon on the left side of the URL. I edited the sourcecode of mfblank.php quick & dirty as follows, but a setting in the backend would be easier. $css_code = \'table.contentpaneopen a.blank{ padding-left:16px; background:url(plugins/system/mfblank/icon_external_light.gif) no-repeat 0% 50%; }\'; Yo Han Sat, 12 Apr 2008 19:56:03 +0100 http://www.marcofolio.net/joomla/mfblank_external_link_recognition_with_icon_suffix.html#josc1601 Thanks for the tip! I\'ll make sure to make an back-end parameter for this. Stay tuned.. Marco Sun, 13 Apr 2008 17:47:31 +0100 http://www.marcofolio.net/joomla/mfblank_external_link_recognition_with_icon_suffix.html#josc1635 This is a great mambot! Why not enhance it further? I suggest it also adds the rel=\"nofollow\" attribute to the external hyperlinks for good SEO ([url=http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2005/01/preventing-comment-spam.html]read more on the official Google Blog[/url]) :) Jon Wed, 16 Apr 2008 20:24:29 +0100 http://www.marcofolio.net/joomla/mfblank_external_link_recognition_with_icon_suffix.html#josc1963 Hi! This is exactly what I\'ve been looking for 2 months now. Thank the stars that I\'ve found yours. I would lay down a kiss if you are really a guy! Anyways, it works like a charm, except that when I click on the title of the article, all the links inside that particular article (if I click on Readmore) would still open in the same window. I dont have the slightest idea how to \"fix\" this :confused: Magdalene Thu, 22 May 2008 09:17:44 +0100 http://www.marcofolio.net/joomla/mfblank_external_link_recognition_with_icon_suffix.html#josc2039 A very convenient plugin as it is, but I had really hoped it would be the solution to having blank targets for weblinks and news feed links. Above it was said that the script cannot check for weblinks, and that is true, but since even the weblinks are href tags I think the plugin could add a blank target with the right test. As to the test, in the url of a page from the weblinks component there is always this: option=com_weblinks. In the link tags in a weblinks component page you will always find this: view=weblink. So, you can check for these things in php and pass to javascript. The newsfeeds component is different, and in pages made by the component it produces fairly normal link tags that the plugin should be able to work with. If you want to make a check, you could basically check for any link tag within the div with class=\"contentpane\" where the component\'s page url includes option=com_newsfeeds&view=newsfeed. In the newsfeeds module, target=\"_child\" is already added, and you could check for that to replace it with _blank. Thereby you would make a lot of people happy who want their Lightboxes etc working on those links. Ewel Fri, 30 May 2008 23:26:47 +0100 http://www.marcofolio.net/joomla/mfblank_external_link_recognition_with_icon_suffix.html#josc2043 In the newsfeeds module, target=\"_child\" is already added, and you could check for that to replace it with _blank. Thereby you would make a lot of people happy who want their Lightboxes etc working on those links. Ewel Sat, 31 May 2008 22:32:43 +0100 http://www.marcofolio.net/joomla/mfblank_external_link_recognition_with_icon_suffix.html#josc2077 Hi, First of all, i like this plugin. It works great. But i have one request. Is there a possibilty to temporaly disable the plugin. By adding class=\"no_mfblank\" to the a href (for example if I link a image I don\'t want the icon to show...) Thanks. Greetings Sonny Thu, 05 Jun 2008 15:10:06 +0100 http://www.marcofolio.net/joomla/mfblank_external_link_recognition_with_icon_suffix.html#josc2272 Marco, I\'m using 1.0, but 1.1 appears to still have the issue. In 1.0, mfblank.js line 13 tests: return (href.indexOf(\"http://\")!=-1 && href.indexOf(hostname) ... It should test: return ((href.indexOf(\"http://\")!=-1 || href.indexOf(\"https://\")!= -1) && href.indexOf(hostname) ... In 1.1, it\'s mfblank.js line 7 that needs the same mod. Thanks! DaveM Mon, 30 Jun 2008 08:12:20 +0100 http://www.marcofolio.net/joomla/mfblank_external_link_recognition_with_icon_suffix.html#josc2412 read about the NOFOLLOW attribute... should be a benefit, or at least better for searchengine handling... Have mercy, i donīt know the exact technical background... I guess there were other mambots, which add this attribute alone... Maybe its possible to add this to your mambot as well Rex Fri, 25 Jul 2008 17:55:09 +0100 http://www.marcofolio.net/joomla/mfblank_external_link_recognition_with_icon_suffix.html#josc2417 Hi, I have installed the J1.5 version on another site and it works perfectly but it is refusing to do so in this one for some reason - see Links page. Does it need the Legacy plugin to be enable (have done this anyway but still no luck). Would really like to get this working on this site as it\'s an excellent tool. Pleas enote that some of the links have target=\"_blank\" added manually which is why some links open a new window and others don\'t. Any ideas please? Kind regards, Lee Lee Sat, 26 Jul 2008 09:35:22 +0100 http://www.marcofolio.net/joomla/mfblank_external_link_recognition_with_icon_suffix.html#josc2492 can we have a external links in joomla articles.....since am a new user to joomla can any one help me :( nurav Mon, 04 Aug 2008 16:07:31 +0100 http://www.marcofolio.net/joomla/mfblank_external_link_recognition_with_icon_suffix.html#josc2734 I\'d like to second Sonny\'s request. I have a link in the footer of the page for which the background is different than the main content\'s. This mambot overwrites any class I try to assign to html code I put in the template with \"blank\" making all external links look the same regardless of the background. Needless to say the footer link comes out too similar to its background making it hard to see. [quote=Sonny]Hi, First of all, i like this plugin. It works great. But i have one request. Is there a possibilty to temporaly disable the plugin. By adding class="no_mfblank" to the a href (for example if I link a image I don\'t want the icon to show...) Thanks. Greetings[/quote] Augusto Sat, 06 Sep 2008 08:00:53 +0100 http://www.marcofolio.net/joomla/mfblank_external_link_recognition_with_icon_suffix.html#josc2736 Yeah love it saved lots of hours of formatting links however except does not work for google adds. kevin Sat, 06 Sep 2008 13:08:46 +0100 http://www.marcofolio.net/joomla/mfblank_external_link_recognition_with_icon_suffix.html#josc3033 This installed easily and settings were a breeze. Enabled the plugin and set \'Remove Icon\' to \'No\'. I still do not see the icon anywhere. Looking through the directories I found the icon files but did not find the php file? The \'target=\'_blank\' thing works just fine. I have Joomla 1.5.7 installed. The \'Online Shopping\' article on the home page shows an external link (no icon) Jason Mon, 20 Oct 2008 22:31:26 +0100 http://www.marcofolio.net/joomla/mfblank_external_link_recognition_with_icon_suffix.html#josc3234 Hmm I don\'t know what happened. I installed the version for J!1.5 and have made sure I published it. But I tested an article with links...and it did not work. I also noticed that it disabled my Insert/Edit Link and UnLink Icon. I have uninstall it but I still can\'t get back my Insert/Edit Link and Unlink Icon to work... can someone help me? Thanks! lainekk Wed, 12 Nov 2008 05:43:33 +0100 http://www.marcofolio.net/joomla/mfblank_external_link_recognition_with_icon_suffix.html#josc3501 hi, can you tell me, how this super ext. support https? i have link with http - it`s ok and link with https - do nothing :( thank you very much ghost Wed, 17 Dec 2008 03:42:29 +0100 http://www.marcofolio.net/joomla/mfblank_external_link_recognition_with_icon_suffix.html#josc3668 [quote=Marco]Indeed, it doesn\'t work with the weblinks component. Reason for this is that the URL\'s generated by the component are actually internal URL\'s. They just re-direct to another website. This script can\'t check that functionality. [/quote] Do links from the weblinks component need a nofollow attribute?? TIA!!! Rex Mon, 12 Jan 2009 01:56:17 +0100 http://www.marcofolio.net/joomla/mfblank_external_link_recognition_with_icon_suffix.html#josc3726 How would one make a gif see-through since this is for a dark background only. sony ericsson mobiles Sun, 18 Jan 2009 07:52:06 +0100 http://www.marcofolio.net/joomla/mfblank_external_link_recognition_with_icon_suffix.html#josc3924 Hi There, thanx for this great plugin. I\'ve got only one problem with this plugin, it\'s in the eventlist component. If the MFBlank plugin (for joomla 1.5) is on i,ve got a error when user wants to register for a event. This is the error: Fout: obj.href is undefined Bronbestand: http://www.dancegids.nl/plugins/system/ ... mfblank.js Regel: 6 and Waarschuwing: Lege string doorgegeven aan getElementById(). Is there a solution for this problem? Thanx for your reply! Greetz Jeroen Jeroen Thu, 05 Feb 2009 14:39:59 +0100 http://www.marcofolio.net/joomla/mfblank_external_link_recognition_with_icon_suffix.html#josc4009 It still doesn\'t with with https ;( Mobiles Wed, 11 Feb 2009 03:19:32 +0100 http://www.marcofolio.net/joomla/mfblank_external_link_recognition_with_icon_suffix.html#josc4446 Hi, Excellent work on this ! Thank you But I would like to have it only affect the articles content. Could it be possible ? Greg Thu, 26 Feb 2009 09:37:58 +0100 http://www.marcofolio.net/joomla/mfblank_external_link_recognition_with_icon_suffix.html#josc4447 Hi again, Forgot to say that it could be great too to have the plugin only work on the frontend. And the CSS in the mfblank.php didn\'t work at all for me, I had to put a a.blank css class directly into my template.css to get it work. Greg Thu, 26 Feb 2009 10:30:16 +0100 http://www.marcofolio.net/joomla/mfblank_external_link_recognition_with_icon_suffix.html#josc5031 The image of background(square with arrow) is not appear with sh404sef. Is this my problem only??? Muneo Fri, 03 Apr 2009 14:30:39 +0100 http://www.marcofolio.net/joomla/mfblank_external_link_recognition_with_icon_suffix.html#josc5082 i also have problems with it, in think since upgrading to 1.5.10 baladeva Mon, 06 Apr 2009 10:50:09 +0100 http://www.marcofolio.net/joomla/mfblank_external_link_recognition_with_icon_suffix.html#josc5523 hallo, i like your plugin mf_blank, but i have notice that it does not function on all sites, i have look a lot for that reason, but i did not find it :( i drop you to links: [url]http://www.lebensplan.com/yoga-infos/kurstermine[/url] [url]http://www.lebensplan.com/kooperationspartner[/url] its working on the last one, but not on many others sites regards from Berlin baladeva Mon, 27 Apr 2009 17:00:56 +0100 http://www.marcofolio.net/joomla/mfblank_external_link_recognition_with_icon_suffix.html#josc5525 i put that line in the template.css and it works fine now table.contentpaneopen a.blank{ padding-right:12px; background:url(http://www.lebensplan.com/plugins/system/mfblank/icon_external_dark.gif) no-repeat 100% 50%; } there was a tip more above in these comments, thanks to that reader :) baladeva Mon, 27 Apr 2009 17:27:28 +0100 http://www.marcofolio.net/joomla/mfblank_external_link_recognition_with_icon_suffix.html#josc5923 I saw that some people who used a modified com_content in their template could not get this plugin working. The solution is not that hard to figure out: - open the mfblank.php file - change the \'table.contentpaneopen\' in the $css_code with the CSS used in your modified com_content Your done. P.s. very nice and simple plugin! Erik Thu, 07 May 2009 17:36:18 +0100 http://www.marcofolio.net/joomla/mfblank_external_link_recognition_with_icon_suffix.html#josc5929 Hi there, The external links work great however I notice a lot of error 404 are generated and logged by the SF404SEF component on my site. Please advice how to stop the errors from occuring. Currently using joomla 1.5.7, JS purity template and got SF404SEF installed. Example of errors generated are as follows: plugins/system/mfblank/Icon_external_dark.gif Businesss-Management/plugins/system/mfblank/Icon_external_dark.gif Property-Management/plugins/system/mfblank/Icon_external_dark.gif kind regards, Yoms Fri, 08 May 2009 01:57:23 +0100 http://www.marcofolio.net/joomla/mfblank_external_link_recognition_with_icon_suffix.html#josc7617 I really love this, but for some reason it turns off the hover affects on my dropdown menus and sidebar menus. I\'m using the Yootheme blueprint template, so you can see a demo of how the menu hover effects work (demo.yootheme.com). I\'ve checked your css and can\'t see how it would affect this, so it must be related to the javascript (of which I know little). Any help would be appreciated. Thanks! Thomas Mon, 15 Jun 2009 18:46:58 +0100 http://www.marcofolio.net/joomla/mfblank_external_link_recognition_with_icon_suffix.html#josc7935 The version for 1.0 is fantastic, works like a charm. But I get javascript error codes when I use it on a Joomla 1.5 site with RocketTheme templates. \"Object doesn\'t support this property or method\" I am guessing it conflicts with the javascript in the template because it throws errors on the code that points to mfblank and then on the other javascript areas of the site. I get the warning messages in IE7 JoomlAmerica Mon, 22 Jun 2009 19:59:07 +0100 http://www.marcofolio.net/joomla/mfblank_external_link_recognition_with_icon_suffix.html#josc8024 also getting errors with this plugin.....all yoo tools modules dont work when mfblank is enabled - shame. mike Fri, 26 Jun 2009 08:15:23 +0100 http://www.marcofolio.net/joomla/mfblank_external_link_recognition_with_icon_suffix.html#josc8144 I noticed at Joomla extensions that mfblank hasn\'t been updated since March 2008. Is it even being developed anymore. You can\'t use it with Yoothemes (which uses Yootools) or Rocketthemes (which I also tested). Is anybody reading these posts? Unfortunately, there is nothing out there that does what this does for Joomla 1.5, so I personally am stuck funding something. Please let us know if you have retired this so we don\'t keep writing posts on something that will never get updated. Thomas Sun, 28 Jun 2009 15:42:36 +0100 http://www.marcofolio.net/joomla/mfblank_external_link_recognition_with_icon_suffix.html#josc10123 I\'m not entirely sure what I should be expecting from this plug-in. I have installed it but the only thing that happens after I click an external link is a new tab opens, rather than the website opening in the same window. I was expecting websites open rather like a wrapper Somebody said that this does not work on the rocket theme template is, I\'ve tried it on another template and it does exactly the same thing. Penn Tue, 11 Aug 2009 01:39:27 +0100 http://www.marcofolio.net/joomla/mfblank_external_link_recognition_with_icon_suffix.html#josc11052 Thanks very nice plugin. diyet Mon, 14 Sep 2009 09:04:27 +0100 http://www.marcofolio.net/joomla/mfblank_external_link_recognition_with_icon_suffix.html#josc11053 Plugin its working. diyet Mon, 14 Sep 2009 09:05:21 +0100 http://www.marcofolio.net/joomla/mfblank_external_link_recognition_with_icon_suffix.html#josc12582 :idea: Hi, this is indeed a fantastic plugin. However, with RocketTheme template (Replicant) it did not work at all. So I\'ve checked other versions (see UPDATE section Miroslav Mon, 26 Oct 2009 08:26:57 +0100 http://www.marcofolio.net/joomla/mfblank_external_link_recognition_with_icon_suffix.html#josc12583 :idea: Hi, this is indeed a fantastic plugin. However, with RocketTheme template (Replicant) it did not work at all. So I\'ve checked other versions (see UPDATE section - 8th from top on this page) and Ewout version started to work. (Install original one, then copy update over it.) HOWEVER, images serving as links were still damaged. :arrow: I changed /plugins/system/mfblank/mfblank.js a bit more: to skip changing all hyperlinks which contain any HTML tags inside them. (Between lines 78 and 79 I inserted: \"if (obj.childElementCount>0) return false;\" without quotes). Of course, simple solution, but efficient - layout is no more distorted. THANKS Ewout for nice and efficient rework of this plugin - I see it\'s rewritten really good inside! (posted once more, forum has problem with some special chars) Miroslav Mon, 26 Oct 2009 08:28:52 +0100