Referencing 'An URL' catalogue CPF

+ possible bug

I have a catalogue with a CPF that needs to be a URL. The Field Type is set to "An URL" (on a side note, shouldn't it read 'A URL'?)

Problem is when I reference this CPF in my catalogue templates, I can't get the link to display properly unless I switch the Field Type to "A brief line of text (no Comcode support)".


..this tries to place another anchor tag inside the HREF attribute (for the sake of reference, it's an anchor tag with a classname of "user_link"). I assume this is because the "An URL" CPF Field Type uses some Comcode to append extra stuff to the URL.

If I use {$STRIP_TAGS*,{FIELD_6}} then it just adds the title of the website being linked to inside my anchor tag (not an actual URL)

{$STRIP_HTML} seems to have the same effect as {$STRIP_TAGS}

There's also some weird stuff going on when using https versus http in a URL CPF Field Type when referencing it inside a catalogue template. I get different and odd results each time depending on what syntax I use to output {FIELD_6} (i.e. using {$STRIP_TAGS*,{FIELD_6}} on a link that contains https displays differently than if the link contained only http)

So my question is, is this normal behavior? Should I be using another Tempcode symbol to somehow remove Comcode from the output of {FIELD_6} (assuming that's even what's happening)? Because as it is, the only way to correctly display this link within my catalogue template is to change the Field Type to just a plain line of text.

First a clarification on terminology:

• CPF = Custom Profile Field, i.e. on an account
• Catalogue field = A field on a catalogue (what you have here)
• Custom field = A custom field on a content type (implemented under-the-hood as a catalogue field on that content type's auto-bound catalogue)

on a side note, shouldn't it read 'A URL'?

Some people pronounce 'URL' as 'earl', so it would be 'an earl'.
However, I did some Googling and this seems to have fallen out of favour, it seems it was once popular with computer science professors. I can't see any reference to an official pronounciation.
So we'll change it to 'A URL' in v11.

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Try {FIELD_6_PLAIN}.

There's also some weird stuff going on when using https versus http

You mean sometimes the title is not showing and you get a URL showing instead?
I'd need to know the URL to run checks.