Textpattern CMS

#1 2010-11-22 21:21:19

rangetb

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Registered: 2010-06-14

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article links to URL not textpattern page

Is it possible to create a new article, but instead of having it link to a content page, it goes directly to a URL like www.test.com?

In my CMS when an article is created, it builds a page that is generated dynamically so I can’t “hard code” the URL in the template area. Hopefully this makes sense
Thanks

#2 2010-11-22 21:59:42

els

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Registered: 2004-06-06

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Re: article links to URL not textpattern page

Not sure I understand you correctly. Are you saying that you want to display an article list, where one (or more) of the titles do(es)n’t link to an article on your site but to an external page? Or a list of links to external pages? In that case you can better store them as links than as articles. If it’s about just a single link, you could even hard code it.

#3 2010-11-22 22:09:01

rangetb

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Re: article links to URL not textpattern page

This one:

Are you saying that you want to display an article list, where one (or more) of the titles do(es)n’t link to an article on your site but to an external page?

#4 2010-11-22 23:14:57

els

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Re: article links to URL not textpattern page

You can use a custom field to store the URL. Let’s say you name it ‘external_link’. Then in the article form something like this:

<txp:if_custom_field name="external_link">
   <a href="<txp:custom_field name="external_link" />"><txp:title /></a>
<txp:else />
   <txp:permlink><txp:title /></txp:permlink>
</txp:if_custom_field>

#5 2010-11-23 01:08:23

ax

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From: Germany

Registered: 2009-08-19

Posts: 165

Re: article links to URL not textpattern page

Also you can use the Links tab and make some links point to articles, others point to external links.