solved jrCore_format_string :: issues

I am trying to put some final touches on my timeline template, but I am running into issues with the format_string options creating conflicts. I am testing all of these on Timeline>item_list.tpl>line 88 (I have a grid format so output size is a factor).

Here is a list of combinations and the associated problems in the timeline list:


Truncates properly, but no @ or # tag links and will show long url addresses instead of item title in action description, when url address is pasted into share action (when sharing a link).


Truncates properly, but no individual hyper-links, but entire description links to action detail.


Does not work... Breaks page


Does not work... Breaks page


Does not work... Breaks page

I think the issue is with the truncate, but I am not sure.

Ultimately, I would like to modify a version of jrCore_clickable_urls to make the links pop-out into a lightbox viewer/player... but I need to get the truncate issue fixed first. So that individual links, like the @ and # tags, are working properly.

Thanks any help on this.


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updated by @the-patria-company: 09/25/16 02:56:19AM

yep the issue is probably truncate. Truncate just cuts the string off at 170 characters no matter what.


If you're thinking that the 170 characters is just the text inside the href, better think again, its everything. So cutting it off is always a bad idea in my mind.

As for the jrCore_format_string issue

Docs: "{jrCore_format_string}"
https://www.jamroom.net/the-jamroom-network/documentation/development/1437/jrcore-format-string

The jrCore_format_string is just one of the piped converters you are applying to the variable
{$some_var|first_converter|second_converter|third_converter}

They run in order, so if the first_converter turns all @tags into html links, then the second_converter strips all html, then the second one is stripping the work the first one did.

Try truncate as the first converter then run all your stuff after that.