Linkchecker skips urls in form tables

I forgot to give an url to see the table.
It is just a testpage to show the problem
https://www.alans.nl/checkpage/

I’m willing to pay for a solution if needed.

Kind regards Alan

• This reply was modified 4 years, 1 month ago by alansod.

Hi @alansod

I hope you’re well today!

This table seems to be created by some sort of shortcode, is that right?

Broken Link Checker doesn’t scan the site in “front-end” (like e.g. search engine crawler would) so if these links/tables are only available on front-end when the site is already rendered it won’t be able to see them.

However, that also depends on the shorcode itself or, rather, where does it take data to display from and how that data is stored on site.

Can you tell me how this part (the table) is created then? Is it some separate plugin (if so, what is it) and where/how the links are defined?

Kind regards,
Adam

Hi Adam,

thank you so much for your reply, very appreciated.

Let me explain what I want to create.

I have a seperate website with a lot of links.
This website is not a wordpress site so there is no option to run your plugin there.

I made a form where I can fill in all the links used on the other website.
If your plugin finds a broken link then I know I have to change that link on the other website.

So this wordpress site is only used to report broken links.
To make it easy to add the links in the wordpress site I use the plugins Contact7 and Contactic. The plugins create the submitted links in the contactform to display on the webpage. As you can see here: https://www.alans.nl/checkpage/

The shortcode created is the following:
[cfdb-table form="Link Checker Invulformulier" show="naam-cursus,naam-hoofdstuk,naam-pagina,url-367,text" headers="naam-cursus=naam cursus,naam-hoofdstuk=naam hoofdstuk,naam-pagina=naam pagina,url-367=url,text=url in tekst"]

I really hope you have a solution for this and if I need to pay for your work then that is not a problem.

Kind regards Alan

• This reply was modified 4 years, 1 month ago by Steven Stern (sterndata).
• This reply was modified 4 years, 1 month ago by Steven Stern (sterndata).

I forgot some information what might be important.

To make the links clickable i use this code

(function ($) {
  $('td[title="url-367"] div').each(
    function () {
      $(this).html('<a href="' + $(this).html() + '">' + $(this).html() + '</a>');
    })
})(jQuery);

• This reply was modified 4 years, 1 month ago by Steven Stern (sterndata).
• This reply was modified 4 years, 1 month ago by Steven Stern (sterndata).

Hi Adam,
you did not replied me anymore and I’m a bit lost now.

I tried other forms without like WP forms instead of contactform7 but it has all the same problem that your plugin don’t see the urls in the form. i also tried embed excel files, word and pdf files to see if your plugin will see the links but all not detected.

Is there any workaround it as it is very important for me to get it working.

As I mentioned before if I need to pay something to get it working I have no problem with it.

Regards Alan

Hi @alansod

Sorry for the delay here.

We are having an issue receiving notification of the tickets reply.

The issue seems related to the JS function:

(function ($) {
  $('td[title="url-367"] div').each(
    function () {
      $(this).html('<a href="' + $(this).html() + '">' + $(this).html() + '</a>');
    })
})(jQuery);

This generates the link in the fly on the Browser Dom side and the Broken Link checker check the database content.

You can try to enable the Settings > Which Link to Check > Plaintext URLs in case it generates a Plaintext from the shortcode, however, in some cases it won’t work either.

Can you share a working URL again and we can check the form and maybe suggest an alternative?

Best Regards
Patrick Freitas

Hi @alansod

I hope you are doing well and safe!

We haven’t heard from you in a while, I’ll mark this thread as resolved.

Feel free to let us know if you have any additional question or problem.

Best Regards
Patrick Freitas