Shrinking links in forum posts

Unless I'm missing something obvious, I'd use Instr to search first for a <A (lcase), and then for the next >. After that I'd use Instr to find the position of the first </A and then check the length between the first > after <A and the </A. If greater than some value, use Mid to replace the string with something like "LINK:timestamp". or you can use Rtrim and Mid to shring the original string.

There's an example of how to pull data from between 2 character strings here - http://new2asp.com/Section_Files/PullStrings/PullStrings.asp

You'd be better off to do it when the info is added to the db. That way you only do it once, not everytime the page is displayed.

IIRC, ASPJpeg ca resize images it uploads and can also determine the size of the image if you just want to handle it by adding height and width attributes to the image tag. It'll beat your server to death though. There's really no elegant way to do this. Fluid instead of fixed layout is the only really viable solurion other than telling your users not to do it.


Edited by dpyers - 04 July 2006 at 11:27pm