I've used CCK to create a 'Travel Offer' content-type which basically just lists the details for a travel package.
My question is how to have a button or link on each node (when the user views it) that will link to a url that includes the title of the current node (eg: example.com/requestQuote/Title_Of_This_Node).
I haven't implemented my system yet so I am free to change the content-type to include a button field or something like that...
The easiest way to accomplish this would be by adding a node-your_content_type_name.tpl.php file into your theme folder. (If you haven't done this before, all you need to do is create a duplicate of node.tpl.php and rename the copy to node-your_content_type_name.tpl.php)
The '$title' variable is available within the node template, so it should be easy to craft a little bit of PHP to print out the appropriate link target.
Edit:
Now, if you want to get a little bit fancier, you could build the link to reference the unaliased node page ('example.com/requestQuote/node/11569' or whatever) and feed it through Drupal's handy l() function to build the hyperlink.
The advantage here is that you won't need to worry about the link changing if the title changes, even though l() will automatically update the actual hyperlink that's displayed to the user.
This will probably make the custom coding on your 'example.com/requestQuote' page a lot easier too, since you can work directly with the node ids and don't need to parse titles.
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I'm just trying to move one of my old php sites to wordpress. As part of the site I have 'top tables' e.g. top 10 cars, listing their features etc. At the moment that all comes from a database and the HTML is generated from the data.
So if a car soon gets a hybrid engine I just check that in the database and my web site table updates to reflect that.
This all works fine. I just don't know where to start when trying to implement something like this in wordpress. I want to keep the WP header, footer, nav... and put my table in to the content area.
Someone recommended simply copying the current generated HTML in to a new post and editing the HTML when anything changes, this sounds like a quick solution but there must be a better way of doing this.
Ideally I would want to keep my current data input pages (and separate database) for all of this 'table data' and present the out put as a post.
If anyone can point me in the right direction (key words I should search for, a guide) that would be great.
Depending on your usecase, you'll usually want to use a static page template:
http://codex.wordpress.org/Page_Templates
Or shortcodes:
http://codex.wordpress.org/Shortcode_API
I'm looking to create an SDL Tridion schema with a list of repeatable links while avoiding multiple fields per link.
Hyperlink
In a rich text field I have the following options for creating a hyperlink:*
Component
Anchor
http://
mailto:
Other
When content authors create one of these hyperlinks, they have the option to select linked (visible) text as well as title and target attributes that function like typical HTML hyperlinks.
"Richtext" means a Text field with Height of the Text Area = at least 2 rows with Allow Rich Text Formatting selected.
Single Schema Field Link
When creating a single schema field, I see these options:
External Link (author options will include http://, mailto, Other)
Multimedia Link
Component Link (which can allow Multimedia Values)
Current Ideas
The best out-of-the-box (OOTB) setups I've found for this "list of links" is either offering:
a single 2-line RTF with instructions to create a hyperlink (of any type) in that field
separate fields for each type as well as additional fields for display name, target, and title (where the fields are assembled through template code), authors fill in only one of the fields (component link or external)
Question
Is there a way in the schema form designer, by updating the schema source, or through code to offer the same (RTF) hyperlink drop-down options, but in a single field? I could be missing something, but recognize this scenario isn't supported OOTB.
One question we are missing here is to consider if those links are going to be used somewhere else individually. If that's the case, multiple components would be my first choice, so we can reuse each component several times.
If you are planning to allow the editor to create a list of links that they are only going to use in a given component (not reusable), well, you have all the options mentioned in the previous answers.
To give you an idea on what's the best approach (in my humble opinion) here are things to consider:
Individual Components per link: use this approach if links are reusable.
Using embedded schemas (with the link structure) so this approach can be used in different component types (schemas)
Custom URL / Single Line Text Field: it requires an additional development effort and it is very unlikely you will keep the hard-link-references when creating internal links. As you know SDL Tridion keeps a reference to the tcm id in order to resolve links, trigger publishing, etc..
Custom URL / 2 Lines RTF: It will do the job, but you need to make sure you disable all the other RTF options from the Ribbon Tool Bar within the Schema RTF options, so you meke sure that the editors can only create links. Also, you might need to consider to add an XSLT filter to check if the edtiors entered something more than just links. These links are not reusable.
In general if you implement something custom (GUI extension + Custom URL) keep in mind all the TRIDION CMS concepts, like blueprinting (what happens when the link is inherited down), where used, etc...
My recommendation has always been to use Separated Components, but be careful with the link propagation when publishing...
I have seen this case at customers. If they consider less development effort, the idea of having a multiple embedded field is good.
You can have it as:
[text] Link Text
[Component Link] Link to anything
You would need an extra Content schema for External Links, like:
[External Link] Url
[text] target
[any extra option you need]
This means the editor would need to create a new External Link Component every time they create an external link. It is extra work, but it can also mean easier maintenance on the use of external urls within their site.
Lastly, the editor would just add multiple Component Links, those being of schema External Link of any other. It will be the template code which checks on the schema of the linked Component and add the code accordingly.
XML Name Description Field Type
[text] Text Text
[title] Title Text
[static_url] External URL Text
[component] Internal URL Component Link
In the field description for "External URL" and "Internal URL" you could add a comment to make sure that the editor doesn't get confused, only one of these two fields should be filled in. From the component, its ID can be used to create the dynamic link in the DWT. This solution has no development effort and for the editor is pretty much as intuitive as it can get. Of course this would be a multivalue embedded schema field inside the Links schema.
This use-case might work using a Custom URL field and maybe a GUI extension. The idea is to have a Custom URL that opens a popup (which might be a GUI extension). In that popup, you would select/construct your link (maybe using the same options as a normal RTF link - Component, Anchor, mailto, etc).
The popup would return a specially crafted string. The format could be anything, even an actual anchor tag (but JSon is also fine). Example: {href:'tcm:1-2',type='component'}.
Your Templates would interpret this string in order to generate something meaningful, like a dynamic link or static HTML anchor.
Also the Custom URL popup should be smart enough to 'decode' such a link (if a value was specified in that field previously) and maybe pre-populate some attributes in the RTF link constructor form.
Before making a CSS change that might possibly have unintended consequences, what's a good way to find where else on the whole site (not just this page) that id or class is used? (It doesn't have to be exhaustive, and semi-manual processes are ok, too.)
For a bit of context, it's a Joomla-based site with a lot of content, and I'm not yet familiar with most of it. The id in question has a two letter name, and I have no idea where else it might be used. I don't have direct access to the server for any grep-like approaches.
The only technique I can think of is using Stylish to make an obvious change to that one selector, and browsing the site for a bit to see where it pops up.
The easiest way would be a local grep, but since you don't have access to the server, try downloading it locally using wget:
wget -r -l --domains=http://yourdomain.com http://yourdomain.com
That'll recursively retrieve pages from your domain to an infinite depth, but only following links to pages within your domain.
Once it's on disk, do a local grep and you're golden.
I use unused-css.com for this sort of thing. You simply put in your webpage, and it will look through the whole site (incl. login) and give you the CSS that you actually are using.
I've found it to be 95% correct - but it only doesn't pick up on things like some CSS browser hacks and some errors (ie. the CSS only displays after an error), so it should work fine for this.
You could also check the original template (assuming the template is a commercial one) to see where the id perhaps should be (they usually lay everything out in their demo template), but unused-css won't tell you exactly where it is used, only if it is or not. For that, I'd start with a view-source -> find on the major pages, and then try other mentioned solutions.
Get the whole site's source tree into an IDE like NetBeans or Eclipse and then do a recursive search for id="theid" on the root folder.
If this is not possible, how are you updating the CSS?
Assuming you don't want to do the grep approach:
Is the ID in question appearing in the actual content area of the page, or in the 'surrounding' areas? If it seems like it's not part of the content, but rather appears in a template, you could search the template files for it. As you're updating the CSS, I'm going to assume you can at least get a hold of the template files. Many text editors/IDE's will let you do a 'global search'. I'd load the template files in TextMate (my texteditor of choice) and do a "search in project" for the particular ID.
That will at least give you a semblance of an idea of where in the site that ID shows up. No, it won't be every 'page', but you'll know what kind of page it appears on (which, with a CMS, is really what you're after).
If the ID in question appears in the content, that is, it was hand-entered by content creators, you'll have to go another route. Do you have access to the database? If you can get a dump of the database (I think Joomla! is MySQL based), you can open the sql in something like Sequel Pro and do a search in the content records for that ID.
This is not actually as hard as it sounds. First place to look the index.php file for the template. This file should be pretty small without a ton of code unless the template is from a developer that uses a template framework. If the ID is in there, then it will show up on every page in the website since this is the foundation that every page is built on.
If you don't find it in there, then you need to determine whether it is displaying in a module position or in the component area. You should be able to tell the difference by looking at the index.php file from the template.
If it's in a module position, then the ID should only show up in instances of that particular module.
If it's in the component area, then it should only display in any pages being created by the component. That does leave the possibility of it affecting many elements you don't want changed. But there is a solution for that. you can use the page class suffix in a menu item to add a unique id/class to the page you want to change (depends on your template). With that unique suffix you can create a specific selector that will only affect the pages you want to change.
I'm using Views in Drupal to show node teasers. I would like now to show the complete node on the left side of my page, nearby the Views, and update it when the user click on a different teaser (better using AJAX).
what's the best method to implement it. I was considering to use a lightbox, but it a bit complex (a lot of complications... such as parsing the content with javascript again.. etc).
See screenshot: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/72686/viewsAndNode.png
Thanks
A quick and dirty approach would be to use an iframe to hold the node content. Users would then be able to switch between nodes without reloading the page, which is I assume your goal. I don't think there is away to achieve what you are trying to do with views out of the box. Have you looked into using panels?
Here's what might be a clean way to do it, of course in drupal there's always many ways to accomplish things.
Providing the content for the ajax call
Install the services module
Setup a service that provides your node as you want it to be displayed
Create the placeholder for your content
Install the Panels Module
Create a empty fixed width panel to contain the node you want to load
Load the view into an adjacent panel
In your controlling view
Add a PHP view header and use (drupal_add_js('script.js')) to add a custom js file to the page. or add this to a custom module, or even your theme.
Re-Write your view node links to help put the js events together
Setup your javascript events
Use add_js to add a custom javascript js file to the page
In the custom js add an event to the view links that will poll the services module and load the node into the placeholder panel
I've solved using the lightbox, and just removing the html code I don't need from the node template with php if the parameter "lightbox=true" is passed with the link.
It's perhaps a common task to create a subsection on site, which will reside under sitename.com/subpath.
The subsection will contain own menu with a few links (Calendar view, Add MyEvent content type form, Table View).
But clicking these links will lead out of this /subpath.
Is there a know solution for this (to stay in subsection)?
Or it's normal to use custom code to manage such a subsection, e.g. create pages under /subpath with custom PHP code that will load CCK forms (drupal_get_form())?
Also, is it a tolerable solution to modify from "View links to node forms" to "View links to /subpath pages with programmatically created node forms"?
I'm not sure I completely understood your question - if I didn't and I'm off-topic, I apologize in advance.
Anyway:
Creating pages with code in them using PHP filter, is never accepted practice. There's a reason why the filter was moved to its own module in 6.x - so you can turn it off altogether.
You can go to Site building->URL aliases->Create alias and point the wanted system paths (say, node/add/mycontent) to your subsection path (say, mysection/add/mycontent). All the links to the system path should change to the new alias.
EDIT:
Also, check out pathauto and Sub-path URL Aliases for paths like node/1 and node/1/edit