Hi,

Looking at putting up a white pages type directory, which may or may not contain a URL. Does links have the flexibility of adding directory entries with / without URL's?

Sample entry could be

Name:
Address:
Phone:
Email: (Optional)
Fax: (Optional)
Website: (Optional)

Possible?

Much of the power of Links comes from the URL field.

You can disable the field, or change the pattern match to allow "http://" to be a valid url. In that case, if you did duplicate checking, you'd get a lot of the same, but you wouldn't really alter any of the other functionality.


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So I could turn off the URL field if I wanted to use links to maintain a white pages with optional URLs.

Is this global or can it be optionally turned on / off by category?

You would need to edit the regex match from ^\w:\/\/ to being empty. You would also need to make the field not-required (can't remember, but I'm pretty sure its an option along on the page where you edit the regex).

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Shriram

You can set up another column in your links Table called Show_URL and call it in your link.html template like the following example.

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<%if Show_URL>
<small><%URL%></small><br>
<%endif%>

<%ifnot Show_URL%>
Undisclosed
<%endif%>

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You can also do this with your email, fax , phone etc.
Show_Email , Show_Fax , Show_Phone

You can have control over what is displayed when validating or you can give the user the option on the add form to have it displayed or not.

I don't think there is anything that this program cannot do by way of customisation, the only limitation is imagination.

Regards

minesite

Hi Shriram,

Yes, Andy is correct, Links SQL 2 incorporates a very easy way to change the URL field from its default Required status to Not Required.

And incorporating Minesite's advice for the templates will ensure that the link to the external website only shows up when there is a value in that field.

Jack.
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Jack / Minesite,

Thanks a ton for the info. I've got my credit card ready ... just waiting for my domain to be taken off the restricted list on neulevel.biz.

Have a couple of other questions. Will post them in a new thread.

Regards,
Shri

I finally got around to installing the license I'd purchased and playing with this.

I did this .. which worked.

<%if URL%>
<ul><li><a class="link" href="<%db_cgi_url%>/jump.cgi?ID=<%ID%>"><%Title%></a>
<%endif%>


<%ifnot URL%>
<ul><li><%Title%>
<%endif%>


A belated "Thanks!". :)

Your welcome, you also might be able to simplify it a little:

<%if URL%>
<ul><li><a class="link" href="<%db_cgi_url%>/jump.cgi?ID=<%ID%>"><%Title%></a>
<%else%>
<ul><li><%Title%>
<%endif%>

Cheers,

Alex
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You could also do:

<%if URL%>
<ul><li><a class="link" href="<%db_cgi_url%>/jump.cgi?ID=<%ID%>"><%Title%></a>
<%elsif Description%>
<ul><li><a class="link" href="<%db_cgi_url%>/detail_page.cgi?ID=<%ID%>"><%Title%></a>
<%end%>

If you had a description, or details, you could still jump to a detail page. I'm tweaking detail_page.cgi to handle the changes to 2.1.x and to override the default loading of detailed.html to allow a passing in of a p= (like page.cgi).

You can't use page.cgi because that doesn't load the link data by default.


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You can use jump.cgi, to jump to detailed pages. So you could do:

Ivan
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Ivan,

Thanks, this is what I ended up using. :)

We have a yellow pages type of directory - similar to what I think you're trying to do. I'd be happy to see your site when it's ready. You can see ours at www.Meowhoo.com.



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