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href one article from another
How can I refer to an article from within THIS article.
To be extra clear, an example:
I’m writing a post. I want to refer to something interesting I wrote in another post. Today I do this via the hard URL which is bad for obvious reasons. I’m sure I’m missing something quite easy here. Greatful for any help.
— David
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Re: href one article from another
I think Zem_link is the solution (though you’ll want this one from wet.)
Last edited by deldindesign (2006-05-30 19:24:13)
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Exactly. Thanks much.
Strange that this functionality isn’t in the main track.
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I think it’s actually better to use Textile. If you ever switch CMS systems, having all these txp tags in your blog posts is going to be a pain.
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ramanan wrote:
If you ever switch CMS systems, having all these txp tags in your blog posts is going to be a pain.
Actually every article posted to a Textpattern run site is saved in whatever markup you used and a plain html version. Checkout the textpattern table in your database, the Body and Body_html fields, also the Title and Excerpt are treated similarly.
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Hmmm…. I want to avoid the following;
href=“2005/06/29/my-article-name”
Such a reference will break if I ever change or update that article.
I want to be able to refer to an article like so:
href=“a_constant_id_no_matter_what”
so to ramanan: How do I go about using textile for this? As I see it Textile is just a way of writing HTML without writing HTML.
to hcgtv: I could check out those tables but are you sure we are talking about the same thing? It’s not practial for me to be checking the tables each time I want to refer to an article. I just want to be able to refer to the article ID (or some other constant) instead of something that could change.
I really appreciate the help here but I have a feeling we’re not talking about the same thing. I think deldindesign’s suggestion solves it or is there a way to accomplish this without plugin?
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#7 2006-05-31 13:42:02
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Re: href one article from another
David Andersson wrote:
I think deldindesign’s suggestion solves it or is there a way to accomplish this without plugin?
Not without a plugin. zem_link is very easy as you only need the article id, the tag is something like <txp:zem_link href="24" />.
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I think hcgtv was addressing me, those tables won’t help you out. Niether will my suggestion. I was just saying that IMHO its more of a nuisiance dealing with txp tags in your entries then dealing with bad URLs.
And zem_link looks to do what you want.
You can always mod_rewrite your URLs after the fact. So I think you shouldn’t worry TOO much about breaking URLs.
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ok. thanks guys. I’ll go with zem_link as suggested.
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