Dynamic URL within text block attribute

Friday 19 November 2010 6:00:21 am

Hi!

How to set a dynamic link to a node/page within a "text block" attribute (.. the footer text of "Template look" class)?

ezurl or eznode don't work in there. If I just give the node id - e.g. <a href="507">, it returns /content/view/full/507 but depending on the page I bowse it changes to something else and can't always find the object.

Because I cannot give the full URL for some other reasons, how can I pass that dynamically?

Thanks a lot!

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Sunday 21 November 2010 3:20:28 am

I do not think text block attributes support parsing any of the text you put in them, be they links or other.

Simple solution: use an xml block instead of the text block

Convoluted solution: write your own template operator that given a text block only parses the <a href=""> tags in it, looks up the node id of objects and substitutes it with the proper url alias. Then add an override for the template content/datatype/view/eztext.tpl that passes the text block text through this operator of yore instead of through wash( xhtml )|nl2br

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Thursday 02 December 2010 6:50:28 am

Thanks Gaetano and Romeo and sorry for my delay in getting back to this topic! Had to give priority to some other issues...

Changing the text block into xml was definitely the most strightforward solution, no doubt, but for this I tried another solution which seems to work after all.

I passed the url to a javascript variable set within the page_footer template

...
{literal}<script type="text/javascript">{/literal}

{def $link_to_page=fetch('content', 'node', hash('node_id', 507))}
{literal}link_to_page={/literal}{$link_to_page.url|ezurl}

{literal}</script>{/literal}
...

and then handed it over inside the "footer text" [text block] attribute this way...

...
<script>
document.write("<a href=" + link_to_page + ">Policy and Privacy</a>");
</script>
...

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