List & Detail - linking to an external file

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