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#1 2008-04-09 10:16:07
- SebastianS
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To link "write title" directly to offsite URL..
What I mean by this is:-
Say you have a list of titles in a category, for example CSS-Resources
Ok I want “100+ Resources for Web Developers” to go directly to blog-well
because it is a link to an off site URL
but am happy for “CSS and IE” to go to http://webdevelopmentnotes.com/Web_Development/91/css-and-ie.
How do I do this?
Last edited by SebastianS (2008-04-09 10:18:12)
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Re: To link "write title" directly to offsite URL..
You could for instance establish a per-address-redirect via a line in .htaccess:
Redirect /Web_Development/96/100-resources-for-web-developers http://blog-well.com/2008/03/04/100-resources-for-web-developers/This would be feasible with a plugin, too. I’m not quite sure if one exists, though.
As a third possibility, add these lines to your article’s body:
<txp:if_individual_article>
<notextile>
<txp:php>
header('Location: http://blog-well.com/2008/03/04/100-resources-for-web-developers/');
</txp:php>
</notextile>
</txp:if_individual_article>Last edited by wet (2008-04-09 11:56:59)
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#3 2008-04-09 12:41:15
- SebastianS
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Re: To link "write title" directly to offsite URL..
Thank you for your reply.
I know nothing about .htaccess and just had a look at it and wouldn’t know where to insert the code.
A plugin would be great if it existed.
txp:if_individual_article>
<notextile>
<txp:php>
header('Location: http://blog-well.com/2008/03/04/100-resources-for-web-developers/');
</txp:php>
</notextile>
</txp:if_individual_article>
has it’s merits. I added it to the ‘web development’ page template and everything on the css resources category page became linked to http://blog-well.com/2008/03/04/100-resources-for-web-developers.
Is there some magic form I could use that lI could link specific article id’s to it.
Something like <txp:article id=”#” form=“siteurl” /> the “siteurl’ linking directly to another web address.
So theoretically I just need the code for the form if it exists.
Last edited by SebastianS (2008-04-09 12:42:46)
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Re: To link "write title" directly to offsite URL..
SebastianS wrote:
…I added it to the ‘web development’ page template
So, why didn’t you just add the sequence to the specific article’s body?
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#5 2008-04-09 12:55:39
- SebastianS
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Re: To link "write title" directly to offsite URL..
Robert said:- “so, why didn’t you just add the sequence to the specific article’s body?”
Well I didn’t realise one could do that, I also didn’t also realise what an articles body is, I know basic terminology.
Thank you very much for helping me with that. It worked.
So simple when you know how. Thank you again, I spent ages trying unsuceesfully to work that out.
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Re: To link "write title" directly to offsite URL..
@wet: Robert, I tried your ‘body’ solution in TXP 4.0.6 to redirect from an old article to an update on the same site. It doesn’t work as expected. No redirect is happening.
- Even the 100% pure code copy redirecting to the external link is not working.
- The code was added at the very top of the article body.
- The rest of the article body remained.
- Deleting everything but the code doesn’t help.
- I am calling the article URL (and not from an article list).
- PHP in articles is allowed and I am in the role ‘publisher’.
Without the <notextile> tag I also got a syntax error. Funny, I thought the space at the beginning of the line would be enough?
What could be wrong in my case?
Edit: Well, reading some documentation about php header location tells me that the ‘header’ request/output must be the very 1st output from a page. Using it in the article body literally after already hundreds of outputs were sent seems to be not working.
Last edited by merz1 (2008-04-12 12:39:53)
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Re: To link "write title" directly to offsite URL..
Maybe I don’t understand what you’re trying to accomplish, but why not create a custom field called “article_url” and when an article is from an external site, enter the url there. Then in your article form create a conditional that says, “if there is a value in the custom field ‘article_url’ output the title this way (ie with the title linked to the url in that custom field), if not, output the title another way (ie with a normal, site-internal permalink)?
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Re: To link "write title" directly to offsite URL..
nabrown78 wrote:
Maybe I don’t understand what you’re trying to accomplish, but why not create a custom field called “article_url” and when an article is from an external site, enter the url there. Then in your article form create a conditional that says, “if there is a value in the custom field ‘article_url’ output the title this way (ie with the title linked to the url in that custom field), if not, output the title another way (ie with a normal, site-internal permalink)?
Yep, good point Nora. In this case, in example:
<a href="<txp:if_custom_field name="URL"><txp:custom_field name="URL" /><txp:else /><txp:permlink /></txp:if_custom_field>"><txp:title /></a>
Last edited by Gocom (2008-04-11 03:26:00)
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#9 2008-04-11 11:11:43
- SebastianS
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Re: To link "write title" directly to offsite URL..
Using the code @wet: Robert gave:-
txp:if_individual_article>
<notextile>
<txp:php>
header('Location: http://forum.textpattern.com/viewtopic.php?id=26843');
</txp:php>
</notextile>
</txp:if_individual_article>
I am able to link directly out of my site clicking the title of an article To link write title directly to offsite URL without opening a secondary page on my site
Reading Nora’s post and Jukka’s post it occured to me it should be possible to make a custom field, replacing the forum URl “http://forum.textpattern.com/viewtopic.php?id=26843” in the above code Robert suggested.
Is that possible?
How? What is the code would needed to replace the individual URL to a custom field/conditional tag say called “article_url”.
Last edited by SebastianS (2008-04-11 11:23:35)
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Re: To link "write title" directly to offsite URL..
SebastianS wrote:
How? What is the code would needed to replace the individual URL to a custom field/conditional tag say called “article_url”.
Ya k’nw Sebastian, it’s quit’ eaz’. First example:
<a href="<txp:if_custom_field name="article_url"><txp:custom_field name="article_url" /><txp:else /><txp:permlink /></txp:if_custom_field>"><txp:title /></a>Or if ya real’ need th’z redirectin’ headers, then:
<txp:if_individual_article>
<txp:if_custom_field name="article_url">
<txp:php>
header('Location: '.custom_field(array(name => 'article_url')));
</txp:php>
</txp:if_custom_field>
</txp:if_individual_article>Th’z both codes go to ur article form.
Last edited by Gocom (2008-04-11 13:03:13)
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#11 2008-04-12 09:28:07
- SebastianS
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Re: To link "write title" directly to offsite URL..
Thank you Jukka, success, it took me a little while to realise I had to put the ‘<txp:output_form form=“article_url” />’ tag in the article body. Thank you all for your help.
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