Using a Link and File URL directly

Tuesday 01 July 2003 10:05:59 am

In ez 3.1.1 - I can't seem to find an easy way to do this - instead of going through the node page, I want to access a file URL directly, or a link URL directly - what's the code I would use to get the URL object? I added "attribute" to my page to see what it said, and there was nothing remotely close to it - I didn't see it in the docs.

Thanks as always for your assistance.

Wednesday 02 July 2003 8:03:01 am

First, thanks for your resposnse - your help is greatly appreciated.

Let me lay out the example so it makes a little more sense- It's sort of two questions in one, and again, I appreciate your help.

I've created an object called Press Releases. On each one of the pages, I've modified the full template to call in the children of Press Releases. I have two different types of children on the press release page - URL (for links related to the press release) and File (for files that accompany a release). So lets say I use Yahoo Finance as a link, and the link URL I entered as a URL is http://finance.yahoo.com/, and a File called Release.ppt as a file.

When I pull in the children using a fetch object called files (for files) and a different fetch object called links (for the URLs), I output them using the standard node_gui_view:

{section name=File loop=$files}
{node_view_gui view=line content_node=$File:item}<br />
{/section}

This returns me the URL to the node page related to the link (lets say /user/content/view/118), and the node page related to the file (lets say /user/content/view/119) - not http://finance.yahoo.com/ or the URL direct to Release.ppt (something like /user/content/download/141/578/file/Release.ppt) - . What I want to access is the direct URL itself - (to the http://finance.yahoo.com page and the /user/content/download/141/578/file/Release.ppt). I want to skip the node page and go directly to the file.

Thanks again.

>> I sorta figured it out - I'm using {attribute_view_gui} instead of just outputting the value, which is great - new question is tho - how do I remove the <p> around the attribute_view_gui output for descriptions -

Thanks again.