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rsekaly
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Sep 27, 2008, 8:59 PM
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List & Detail - linking to an external file
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I have a site which has a multi-record viewer. Two of the records are normal (title, summary, content). However, one of the records is a link to a pdf file (hyperlink in content field to pdf). As you can guess, this is very ugly, as you have to go from the list (title, summary) to the detail (title, content) page, then select the hyperlink.
Is there a cleaner way of doing the same thing?
Thanx........ ragi
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Mr Jim
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Sep 28, 2008, 2:26 PM
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Re: [rsekaly] List & Detail - linking to an external file
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One way would be to create a new field in your section to handle the external file link rather than putting it in the content section. Then, in your list page, use a conditional statement to determine exactly which field from your section is going to be used as the link.
Example:
Add a textfield to your section. Title it, for example, external_link. Now, in the record where you want to link to a pdf rather than move to a detail page, instead of placing any content in the content field, place the link url into the external_link field. Then save it.
In your list page code, right after the line <?php foreach ($xxxxxRecords as $record): ?>, add the following code:
<?php if ( !empty($record['external_link']) ) {
$new_link = $record['external_link'];
} else {
$new_link = $record['_link'];
} ?>
Then, where your code declares the url that should be used as the link, change:
<a href="<?php echo $record['_link'] ?>">
to:
<a href="<?php echo $new_link ?>">
Then, when you browse to your list page, the code will check to see if the new external_link field has something in it. If it does, then it will now use what's in that field for the link.
Hope this helps somewhat.
Jim
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rsekaly
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Sep 28, 2008, 3:09 PM
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That's great!
Thanx a lot Jim, it worked perfectly.
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