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How do I link to another article from within an article?
Is there an easy way to link to another existing article from within an article, without having to hardcode the link? I don’t want to hardcode the link in case I change the url structure from messy to clean.
I would think there would be an easy way to do this, but I can’t seem to figure it out.
I am hoping there is a plugin or something that can generate a list of all articles that I can see whilst editing an article. Then I can just click on it to add a link to an article.
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Re: How do I link to another article from within an article?
You might want to try zem_link. You can make it build the link using the Article ID and that remains the same regardless of url structure.
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Re: How do I link to another article from within an article?
Ah ok, that does work, but I’m surprised there’s nothing something more user-friendly than that. Cheers!
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#4 2006-12-18 14:32:47
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Re: How do I link to another article from within an article?
<txp:permlink id="xx" /> (TextBook).
Edit: actually the single tag only outputs the url, so you’d have to do something like
<a href="<txp:permlink id="xx" />">Link text</a>The container tag does produce a link:
<txp:permlink id="xx">link text</txp:permlink>The first line of code has the advantage that you can add title, class and other attributes.
Last edited by els (2006-12-18 14:44:34)
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Re: How do I link to another article from within an article?
OK.
What I was hoping for was for the admin interface to display a list of all other articles. All the user would need to do is highlight some text in their article, and click an article from the list to generate a hyperlink to it, using the highlighted text as the text link.
Sounds like there’s nothing around that is that user-friendly.
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#6 2006-12-18 22:14:56
- els
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Re: How do I link to another article from within an article?
cade wrote:
Sounds like there’s nothing around that is that user-friendly.
Unfortunately there isn’t. You’d have to create or request a plugin.
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