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 07/17/08 10:17pm (Read 2,753 times)  

Ronald

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I'm very impressed with GL 1.5, and even more with the new options in the LINK plugin. However there is one small detail I would like to open the selection in a new window...aka open _blank...

I did a quick search, but couldn't a quick fix to change this...

Maybe somebody can help me...

With kind regards,

Ronald
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 07/18/08 05:33am  
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beewee

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Change the template of the linkitems, look for the template in plugins/links/templates/
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 07/18/08 05:38am  

Ronald

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Indeed, that worked fine in GL 1.4.1, but this is GL 1.5 and linkdetails.thtml are not the same anymore...
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 07/18/08 12:28pm  
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jmucchiello

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Yeah, the links plugin now uses the COM_createLink function. It takes all control away from the theme maker.
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 07/21/08 12:08pm  

Ronald

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Now we know where not to look to fix it, does anybody knows how we can change the open in new window option?
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 07/21/08 02:34pm  
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jmucchiello

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You need to find the call to COM_createLink in the links/index.php and add array('target' => '_new'Wink to the $attr parameter.
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 07/21/08 10:30pm  

Ronald

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Sorry jmucchiello,

I'm not a programmer, I have some knowledge of HTML, maybe you can be more specific what I need to change.

So much thanks in advance.....

Ronald
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 07/21/08 11:04pm  
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jmucchiello

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Sorry. I don't have the time to actually make a patch. Make feature request in the bug tracker. (click the "report a bug" link on the left under "support" and maybe it will get into a future release of GL.
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 07/27/08 12:21am  

Ronald

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Nobody have an idea how to make the link plugin to open links in a new window?
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 07/27/08 04:04am  

ironmax

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To make that link open in a new window. All you should have to do is what jmucchiello said by looking for the COM_createLink in the /public_html/links/index.php file. There are 4 COM_createLink var in the file. Find the first one at about line 359.

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    $html = COM_createLink($content, $url, $attr);
 


Just above that, you will see this.
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    $content = stripslashes ($A['title']);
    $attr = array(
        'title' => stripslashes ($A['url']),
        'class' => 'ext-link');
    $html = COM_createLink($content, $url, $attr);
    $template->set_var ('link_html', $html);
 


You will need to change line 356 to read like this.
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    $attr = array('target' => '_new',
 


So the entire code area looks like this after you are done.
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    $content = stripslashes ($A['title']);
    $attr = array('target' => '_new',
        'title' => stripslashes ($A['url']),
        'class' => 'ext-link');
    $html = COM_createLink($content, $url, $attr);
    $template->set_var ('link_html', $html);

 


It was tested and works. If anyone else finds a problem with it, please make the corrections here.

Michael
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 07/27/08 07:28am  

Ronald

Anonymous
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Nice Ironmax,

You made it so simple.... And you help me sooooo much

Thanks...
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