I had an issue where we wanted to link to a UNC folder on our internal network. The format needed to be file://uncpath/whatever for it to work. The [URL] tag converted this to http://file//uncpath/whatever which of course failed.

My quick & dirty workaround was to add a custom BBCode Extension (v1.9.3 of YAF). I called it [ANYURL], which basically accepts anything at all and makes it into a hyperlink.

Under Admin / BBCode Extensions:

1. Click Add

2. Name = ANYURL

3. Exec Order = 1

4. Description = [ANYURL]whatever[/ANYURL]

5. Search Regex = \[anyurl\](?.+)\[\/anyurl\]

6. Replace Regex = ${inner}

7. Save

Now I just [anyurl]file://uncpath/whatever[/anyurl] and it works just fine. Only downside is I can't add flavor text to it - I'm not enough of a RegEx guru to figure out how to do that. :oops:

Here is how to make decorative text for the URL

1. Click Add

2. Name = ANYURL

3. Exec Order = 1

4. Description = [ANYURL="anyurl"]text[/ANYURL] (does not prepend http://)

5. Search Regex = \[anyurl\=(?.+?)\](?.+?)\[\/anyurl\]

6. Replace Regex = ${inner}

7. Replace Variables = url;inner

8. Save