Change outgoing URLs to to actual URLs

[swese44]

I want to make it more appealing for site owners to integrate my Pligg service into their sites by making my outgoing links able to pass along Google PageRank.

I want to change the outgoing link URLs to the actual submitted URLs when a story is fully displayed. This will be easy enough to do in link_summary.tpl by checking if $pagename eq 'story'.

But I don't know how to get the actual submitted URL. The $url and $story_url variables are internal links. I suppose that $url is used to keep stats on clicks?

1. What variable can I use to get the story's real URL?
2. Are there any kind of stats or system processes I will screw up by doing this?


Thanks!

[swese44]

Well I think I got this one figured out. Here is what I now have in link_summary.tpl:

{if $pagename eq "story"}
    <a href="<?php echo rawurldecode($this->_vars[enc_url]); ?>" target="_blank">{$title_short}</a>
{else} 
    <a href="{$story_url}">{$title_short}</a>
{/if}

Somebody please tell me if I'm doing something dangerous... :)

[sebastianv]

I am also very interested in a clean solution for that.

[Andtony]

There's build in feature for this in Pligg.
Check your admin panel -> configure YouSite -> Outgoing

Change Enable outgoing links to false and you'll get clean urls in story pages.