Controlling Post Links

I was wonder if there was any way to control post links through Gravity Forms. For example, I have an open front end form that anyone can post with, and I set this up to post under a subscriber user I created. The only problem is users can post external links which I'd like to prevent. I have not found any plugins that will control this sort of thing by role.

Just curious if there was anything that can be done from within GF that I am unaware of. I doubt there is, but I still wanted to ask. :)

Thanks,
Sel

Hi Chris,

I would like to prevent all urls from being submitted with my form. I found a plugin that can put a custom url in front of any link, which if I use my own url, I can ensure the links will at least stay on my site (and go to my 404). Not exactly ideal, but better than nothing for now.

The only problems are that 1) the aforementioned plugin works on all links no matter who submits (admin/me or someone from the front end form) and 2) users can still submit ad scripts to a post such as Adsense (and possibly others) and it works.

I'm experimenting with the idea of an anonymous message server and I'm just trying to take out all the obvious forms of abuse (profanity filter, link and advertisement disabling, etc.) before anything else.

Thanks
Sel

I don't mind the urls remaining as long as they're not hyperlinked, although if the raw html has to be included with it, I'd prefer it's all replaced with with a "link removed" type message.

But honestly, if its just a standard http://www.url.com without it being hyperlinked, I'd be fine just letting it remain as regular text.

Thanks,
Sel

Ha, and yes, gmail definitely does hyperlink them automatically. Just noticed that on my blackberry when my last test form submission came though. ;)

Sel

Well, yes, they are still hyperlinked if the user submits with html (a href=blah blah, etc) in the form.

Thanks,
Sel

Ok, so if I'm understanding correctly based on your first link, I would add an allowable tags filter into form_display.php?

It says the default is always false, so would that mean I add that first gform_allowable_tags filter (for all forms) with no function and it will not allow html?

Is there a document that explains how to write these filters/functions properly? So if I wanted to play around with things and only wanted to remove < a href > like you said, but keep automatic paragraph breaks or something. When I searched for filters, I got hundreds of docs back with specific filters, but not a lot of info about how to manipulate them or include/exclude certain things.

Thanks,
Sel

Ok, I'm running Thesis, and I somewhat recognize those types of things, but that doesn't mean I truly understand it all. :( If I add the following into my custom_functions.php, should the return only allow new paragraph and bold markup? And if I put "false" in its place, would it not allow any html? Doesn't seem to work for me yet, so I must have something not right.

add_filter("gform_allowable_tags", "allow_basic_tags");
function allow_basic_tags($allowable_tags){
return '<p>'; }

Thanks,
Sel

Hi Sel,

I assume you are using the "Post Body" field to enter your message? If so, the issue is likely not with your use of the filter, but the fact that the filter does not apply to any of the Post fields. All of these fields accept HTML by default. We discussed internally and decided it make a lot of sense to allow the "gform_allowable_tags" filter to apply to ALL Gravity Form fields.

I've sent you an updated version of Gravity Forms where this is the case. Let me know if you encounter any issues after installing. The existing code you've placed in your theme's functions.php file should not require any change with this new version.