Regex function to display hyperlinks properly on ColdFusion page - regex

Question

I am trying to fix an issue with a certain [Coldfusion generated PAGE][1]. Please note, I have little knowledge of ColdFusion and how it works. So if you need more information, please let me know and I will try and track it down.
In the "How to Apply" section of the page there is meant to be included a URL for a certain website. However the page shows only the first part of the URL in clickable hyperlink format. Everything after the / is shown as plain text. Can you please suggest a solution ? Here is how the url looks on the page :
http://example.com/job-vacancies
Please note that the sections are extracted from the database and displayed dynamically in web pages. This image shows how the text looks in the database:
This is the content of job.cfm:
<cfset Application.controller.job()>
And this is the content of Application.cfm:
<cfapplication name="UK_AC_UEL_JOBSEARCH"
sessionmanagement="true"
setclientcookies="false"
setdomaincookies="false">
<cfscript>
function onRequestStart()
{
var formKeys = StructKeyList(Form);
var urlKeys = StructKeyList(URL);
var key = "";
var value = "";
var i = 0;
// ....
if (NOT StructKeyExists(Application, "controller"))
{
Application.controller = CreateObject("component", "uk.ac.uel.jobsearch.controller.Controller");
}
// ....
}
onRequestStart();
Update 1
I am still in the process of looking for the file that contains what actually renders the page in question. I was able to find Controller.cfc but it doesn't seem like it's directly responsible for rendering the page. After further searching, here is the code I believe renders that section of the page:
<div class="display-item last">
<div id="how-to-apply">
<h2>How to apply</h2>
<p>#formatWithLinks(Arguments.data.ApplicationProcedure)#</p>
<dl>
<dt>Closing date</dt>
<cfif Arguments.data.HasClosingDate>
<dd>#DateFormat(Arguments.data.ClosingDate, "D MMMM YYYY")#</dd>
<cfelse>
<dd>None: ongoing recruitment</dd>
</cfif>
</dl>
</div>
</div>
I am not sure what to change to tackle this issue. Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Answer 1

Hi guys just got to the bottom of this, the functions formatWithLinks is the key to solve this, it was found in the view.cfc file as #Leigh suggested ( thank you ) and here is the complete code of the function:
<cffunction name="formatWithLinks" output="false" returntype="string">
<cfargument name="input" />
<cfscript>
var output = Arguments.input;
/*var httpREWithProtocol = "(?x)
(
((https|http):\/\/) ## protocol
(
[a-zA-Z]{1}
([\w-]+\.)+
([a-zA-Z]{2,}) ## top level domain
) ## domain name
(:[\d]{1,5})? ## port number
((/?\w+/)+|/?)
(\w+\.[\w]{3,4})?
((\?\w+=\w+)?
(&\w+=\w+)*)?
)";*/
var httpREWithoutProtocol = "(?x)
(\s) ## Space requirement here means this won't match beginning of string
(
(
[a-zA-Z]{1}
([\w-]+\.)+
([a-zA-Z]{2,}) ## top level domain
) ## domain name
(:[\d]{1,5})? ## port number
((/?\w+/)+|/?)
(\w+\.[\w]{3,4})?
((\?\w+=\w+)?
(&\w+=\w+)*)?
)";
var httpREWithoutProtocolBeginningOfString = "(?x)
^ ## Match string here; I don't like doing it this way, but at least it works
(
(
[a-zA-Z]{1}
([\w-]+\.)+
([a-zA-Z]{2,}) ## top level domain
) ## domain name
(:[\d]{1,5})? ## port number
((/?\w+/)+|/?)
(\w+\.[\w]{3,4})?
((\?\w+=\w+)?
(&\w+=\w+)*)?
)";
var emailRE = "(?x)
(
[\S]+# ## user
[a-zA-Z]{1}
([\w-]+\.)+
([a-zA-Z]{2,})
)";
output = REReplace(output, "<[^>]*>", "", "all");
output = XMLFormat(output);
//output = REReplace(output, httpREWithProtocol, "\1", "all");
output = REReplaceNoCase(output,"(\bhttp://[a-z0-9\.\-_:~###%&/?+=]+)", "\1", "all");
output = REReplace(output, httpREWithoutProtocol, "\1\2", "all");
output = REReplace(output, httpREWithoutProtocolBeginningOfString, "\1", "all");
output = REReplace(output, emailRE, "\1", "all");
return output;
</cfscript>
</cffunction>
thank you everyone for trying to help. i greatly appreciate your efforts

Answer 2

The application.cfm is not where your problem is. Have a look in the cfm that actually renders the page. You'll probably find something like this...
http://example.com/#section#
Change that to...
http://example.com/#section#
And you should be golden. Note that everything between the hash tags is a dynamic ColdFusion variable. Your variable name will likely be very different.