Affiliate Buy Links not displaying correctly

Unfortunately I cannot understand what is wrong theer. because I do not know what you do expect.

They are essentially buy links. The user inputs the url to the book. The output template adds the affiliate code and displays it as an image link. I have checked that the image name and directory are correct. The code is the same that I used for the buy links when using Cobalt 7.

Thanks,

So you use Cobalt 7? Or Cobalt 8?

I'm now using Cobalt 8, but the last time I used the links I was using Cobalt 7. I thought they would work, but something is obviously different, I'm just not sure what.

I see.

But file you send looks ok to me. I am not sure but there is direct link through $this->value[0]['url'] and also cycle. May be you should use simple text field with URL validation. The it will be very easy to create template.

I am happy to try that. Would it display with the "button" (image) as well?

Ok, I confess you have me utterly confused :D I had a look at text feel and cannot find anything like "url validation" - the closest is regular expression or something to that effect. I have looked and found innumerable "explanations" of this in various php forums, but each one seems more confusing than the next. :O

Lordy. What now??

Yes, regex exactly what I meant. I think somethign like this wil work

(https?:\/\/)?([\da-z.-]+).([a-z.]{2,6})([\/\w .-])\/?

if it is not simplify it to

(https?:\/\/)?([\da-z.-]+).([a-z.]{2,6})(.*)

Just so I understand... I enter this in the field parameters, no problem there. Do I then have to make additional changes to the output template? I'm just not sure how the affiliate code is added in.

Many thanks

Hi there, I have tried both the above, and they both display as follows:

I would imagine that it has to do with the output template. I'm looking into that now, but if you have a quicker solution than hours on the internet, I'd greatly appreciate it, thank you.

Jude

What is PHP code that is displayed as Array?

Not at all sure how I would find that? If it's in the article template it's :

that's the two affiliate code fields I'm trying to display.

Try fields_by_id[12]->result[0]; ?> because it is an array.

I will try that, thank you

This is the result:

(the Array has become A)

What would

show?

string(5) "Array"

I assume that we're still using regex here? Perhaps I'm being really stupid, but I'm not sure why we're using text and not url? Not being difficult, just trying to understand so I can learn from this. My little pea brain would have thought that the url field would have been easier... though of course I have no idea why it worked so well on Cobalt 7 and not on Cobalt 8. thanks for all the effort.

Hmmm.... well, just for fun (seeing as I needed to try something :D) I went and set this back to url and it seems we have progress, though for the life of me I cannot think why. To the best of my knowledge I simply changed it from text to url. Anyway, the image is at least showing, though with other garbled stuff, and clicking on the link brings up server cannot be found at http. I'll re-enter the url just in case there's a problem there, but I do think the string 699 and " (image) " has something to do with it.

Just to save the bother of looking up the code:

If you change one type to another you have to resave article as every type stores data differently.