Snippet needed for removing http:// in URL field

Back in the old Jot support thread there was a sub discussion about processing a custom URL field to remove the "http://".

It concluded with a quote from BS : "I think that such an request is a little out of scope for Jot specific. Your problem is solved by inputting the [+comment.custom.yourUrlField+] into a homemade snippet that does the processing."

Has anyone written such a snippet?

Create a PHx custom modifier.

1. Create a new snippet and name it: phx:striphttp
2. Paste the following code into the snippet code field



now you can use :striphttp in any placeholder you like.
Example:

Thanks BS - that works: I can now strip off any http:// that commenters put on and add it back on to every URL in the template. Good stuff

Whilst I was pondering I had a detour into using &validate to head the problem off at the pass but I can’t seem to get it to work even with a single string. This is my simple call :

[[Jot? &subscribe=`1` &validate=`email:Email address not valid. Sort it out.:email` &customfields=`name,website,email` ]]

but what I was intending to use as a multiple was:

[[Jot? &subscribe=`1` &validate=`email:Email address not valid. Sort it out.:email,website:The website URL is not correct...:^http:\/\/(\w*)\.([\-\+a-z0-9]*)\.(\w*),name:A name is required` &customfields=`name,website,email` ]]

I got the regex elsewhere.

Am I not seeing the wood for the trees here? I’d still like to use the validation for other fields.

does your simple call work?

Nope - I just get the default message for no content.

Everything else works fine though - great snippet, I was considering using something like Wordpress earlier this week because I wasn’t happy with the usercomments system I’d been playing with. Jot has given me all the functionality I need (trackback would be nice tho!)

can you confirm that in the manager the Jot snippet code is in fact holding &validate as a SET value?
(are you using 1.0.1 btw?)

I’m using 1.0 beta8 - just upgraded to MODX 9.5 yesterday so I haven’t upgraded snippets yet - will this help?

"can you confirm that in the manager the Jot snippet code is in fact holding &validate as a SET value?" - not quite sure what you mean and how I would do this - sorry , I’m more designer than coder...

yes ofcourse... validate wasn’t available in beta 8

always be sure to update Jot to the latest version:

- download Jot 1.0.1 from the repository
- Check the install notes (very straightforward) and set it up.

That’ll explain it then! OK - many thanks for your help. Once again - great piece of work!