Links in Products/Services and Product Addons

[dbltoe]

No matter how good you are, you can't get to microsoft.com from your site's Products/Services descriptions with a relative link. Some times you've got to send folks "offsite." Here's the answer for WHMCS versions 6 and 7.

 

Just change a standard call of <a href="http://www.somesite.com" target="_blank">some link</a> to <a href="http://www.somesite.com" target="_blank">some link</a> in the description of the Products/Services item. This replaces the colon ( with its ascii equivalent and fools the system into showing a link without reacting to a real colon (

 

Unfortunately, this method does not quite work the same when used in a Product Addon description. Seems to be a bug (reported by me) that causes WHMCS to add the Product Addons to the cart when the link is clicked and NOT show or go to the link itself.

 

example can be seen here. Link in Magic Thumb Addon is the culprit.

 

Hopefully, a cure for the Product Addons will be found soon.

[brian!]

No matter how good you are, you can't get to microsoft.com from your site's Products/Services descriptions with a relative link. Some times you've got to send folks "offsite." Here's the answer for WHMCS versions 6 and 7.

Just change a standard call of <a href="http://www.somesite.com" target="_blank">some link</a> to <a href="http://www.somesite.com" target="_blank">some link</a> in the description of the Products/Services item. This replaces the colon ( with its ascii equivalent and fools the system into showing a link without reacting to a real colon (

another way is to remove the http: from the link...

 

<a href="//www.somesite.com" target="_blank">some link</a>

 

Unfortunately, this method does not quite work the same when used in a Product Addon description. Seems to be a bug (reported by me) that causes WHMCS to add the Product Addons to the cart when the link is clicked and NOT show or go to the link itself.

example can be seen here. Link in Magic Thumb Addon is the culprit.

Hopefully, a cure for the Product Addons will be found soon.

it's not really a bug (as WHMCS might define it) - just badly designed.

 

I can see the problem - the .js is making the whole div behave as one toggle... so it wouldn't matter if your description has a link or not, clicking anywhere on the addon box enables/disables the addon..

 

the simplest way around it would require a redesign of that div - but WHMCS will first a) have to decide if it's a serious issue and b) whether they want to fix it or not.

 

even if the answer to yes is both, don't be expecting a speedy update! I don't know when you reported it, but it's not unheard of for WHMCS to take months (possibly years) to update non-urgent issues.