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1. Peter_L
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #
   

   Hello,

   I have a post which has a custom wp_list_comments(). Works fine.

   I wanted to add a custom comment field but couldn't make it work.
   So, I'm using the default url field as a custom field (city).

   <li class="comment-form-url">' .
                   '<label for="url">City *</label>' .
                   '<input id="url" name="url" type="text" value="" />' .
   '</li>'

   Works fine, but when I call out the comment fields, the url-city value, called with comment_author_url() displays like this http://value.
   So, if somebody put in Brussels, it will display as http://Brussels
   Obviously, I want the http:// gone.

   How do I solve this in php? I already tried this:
   <?php echo substr(comment_author_url(),7); ?>
   But wordpress just ignores the extra php and prints the value as if I had put in
   <?php echo comment_author_url(); ?>
   I'd rather not fiddle around in the core files either.

2. alchymyth
   The Sweeper & Moderator
   Posted 2 years ago #
   

   try to use get_comment_author_url() in your code:

   <?php echo substr(get_comment_author_url(),7); ?>

   (untested)
   the difference is that the function starting with get_ returns the value to be used, instead of putting it out to the screen.

3. Peter_L
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #
   

   It works.

   I actually just found another solution to this problem.
   Adding this line to your functions.php

   <?php
   function striphttp($text){$return = str_replace('http://', '', $text); return $return;}
   add_filter('comment_url', 'striphttp');
   ?>

   Works as well. (it's based on the code to remove the rel="nofollow" attribute)
   But thinking about it, this will probably remove the http on all comment_author_url 's instead of just on the one post.

   So, I'm just gonna use the solution with the get_ version.

   Thanks for the help alchymyth.

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