Posting a link with a different title

[The Fat el Hombre]

If I wanted to post a link, like this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rOxHMBBTDWM, how do I do it so that it still goes to that link, but in my post it displays a different title to the 'http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rOxHMBBTDWM', like 'Samaras highlight reel'?

If you know what I mean, not particularly easy to explain. I've seen it done on bluemoon in the past but don't know how to do it myself.

Cheers

 

[shadygiz]

try a website called tiny url...i think its http://www.tinyurl.com

arr...no, this will only make massive links shorter not edit the link like you want


try this instead http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/r_harvey/adobehtm.htm

but i dont think it will work on here because HTML option is off

something like this for code entry >>> <a href="http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/r_harvey/adobehtm.htm">How to edit url links to shorten</a>

 

[shadygiz]

just found this on our website mate..see the options in bottom left corner...click on the BBCode and it takes you to another webpage...scroll down to "creating links" and then click on "link to other sites"

you will see this >>

Linking to another site
phpBB BBCode supports a number of ways of creating URIs, Uniform Resource Indicators better known as URLs.
The first of these uses the tag; whatever you type after the = sign will cause the contents of that tag to act as a URL. For example, to link to phpBB.com you could use:

Visit phpBB

This would generate the following link, Visit phpBB! You will notice the link opens in a new window so the user can continue browsing the forums if they wish.

the code for above is as follows >>

http://www.phpbb.com/]Visit phpBB!

....then simply highlight the link and click URL to make it a complete link

so basically
copy and paste the website url
add a ] after the ul link
the type what you want the link to say
then highlight the lot and click url

 

[ElanoGod]

Its pretty easy...

Normally if you want to put a link on a forum you would use

[url]website address here[/url]

The

[url]

opening the tag and the

[/url]

closing the tags. Instead you use

[url=website address]website name[/url]

The difference being you add an = between the [url and the ] the next space you type the text you want to use and then the [/url] to close again.

So your example would be

[url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rOxHMBBTDWM]Samaras highlight reel[/url]

Will look like Samaras highlight reel

 

[shadygiz]

arr..yeah got ya....if you use the full URL button to close the link, it wont work because you have at the begiining, when you actuall...text after the ] then close the link with

giving Creating Short Links

yeah!!!!

 

[Simon Le Tom]

<a href="WEBSITE URL">Name the url here</a>

 

[shadygiz]

i tried that first tom...it wont recognise the <a href=""></a> code mate

 

[ElanoGod]

That its and if you get really cocky you can even do things like this...

 

[ElanoGod]

<a href="WEBSITE URL">Name the url here</a>

PHPbb forums don't use html they use BBcode so normal html tags won't work.

 

[shadygiz]

i have done that on my "myspace" page mate with the blumoon forum link, i have a city flag and when you hover the mouse over the flag it says "click to visit bluemoon forums"

but thas in html code not bb code