Gossamer Forum: Products: Links 2.0: Customization: New detailed pages

Hi!

I'm going to assume that you want to build the second set of detailed pages into a new directory. I'm going to name it "printfriend" but you can name it whatever you like of course (just change the name in the code). I'm also going to assume you're using templates - only because I'm not really qualified to do a non-templates one...very sorry!

First, open links.cfg. We're going to determine where the printable pages are built.

Find:

Code:
$build_detailed    = 0; 
    $build_detail_path = "$build_root_path"; 
    $build_detail_url  = "$build_root_url";

and after that add

Code:
$build_printfriend_path = "$build_root_path/printfriend"; 
$build_printfriend_url = "$build_root_url/printfriend";

Next, open nph-build.cgi. We're going to copy the "detailed" subroutines and rename them for printpage.
(note: I'm doing this for sub build_all. If you use build staggered, and probably just as good practice, you'll need to duplicate and then rename the copy of the detailed information in build staggered as well.)

Where you see:

Code:
# Generate detailed view pages. 
    if ($build_detailed) { 
        print "Generating detailed view pages . . . \n"; 
        &build_detailed_view; 
        print "Done\n\n"; 
    }

Add this after:

Code:
# Generate printable detailed view pages. 
    if ($build_detailed) { 
        print "Generating printable detailed view pages . . . \n"; 
        &build_detailed_printable; 
        print "Done\n\n"; 
    }

Then, also in nph-build.cgi, beneath sub build_detailed_view (the *whole* subroutine, not just that first line), add:

sub build_detailed_printable {
# --------------------------------------------------------
# This routine builds a printable verson of the detailed pages
#
my (@values, $id, %rec, $count);
if ($build_detail_path =~ m,^$build_root_path/(.*)$,) {
&build_dir ($1);
}
print "\t";
open (DB, "<$db_file_name") or &cgierr("unable to open database: $db_file_name. Reason: $!");
LINE: while (<DB> ) {
/^#/ and next LINE; # Skip comment Lines.
/^\s*$/ and next LINE; # Skip blank lines.
chomp;
@values = &split_decode ($_);
$id = $values[$db_key_pos];
%rec = &array_to_hash (0, @values);
$title_linked = &build_linked_title ("$rec{'Category'}/$rec{'Title'}");
open (DETAIL, ">$build_printfriend_path/$id$build_extension") or &cgierr ("Unable to build detail page: $build_printfriend_path/$id$build_extension. Reason: $!");
print DETAIL &site_html_printfriend (%rec);
close DETAIL;
$use_html ?
print qq~<a href="$build_comments_url/$id$build_extension" target="_blank">$id</a> ~ :
print qq~$id ~;
(++$count % 10) or print "\n\t";
}
close DB;
print "\n";
}

Open site_html_templates.pl. (if you use templates, that is!) After:

Code:
sub site_html_detailed { 
# -------------------------------------------------------- 
# This routine will build a single page per link. It's only 
# really useful if you have a long review for each link -- 
# or more information then can be displayed in a summary. 
# 
    my %rec = @_; 
    return &load_template ('detailed.html', { 
                                        total => $total, 
                                        grand_total => $grand_total, 
                                        title_linked => $title_linked, 
                                        %rec, 
                                        %globals 
                                    } );

Add

Code:
sub site_html_printfriend { 
# -------------------------------------------------------- 
# This routine will build a printable version  
#of the detailed pages. 

my %rec = @_; 
    return &load_template ('printfriend.html', { 
                                        total => $total, 
                                        grand_total => $grand_total, 
                                        title_linked => $title_linked, 
                                        %rec, 
                                        %globals 
                                    } );

Then, finally, you'll want to create the printer-friendly template named printfriend.html in your templates directory.

I hope that helps!!! If you don't use templates, the principle is the same - basically what you're doing is duplicating the processes that build the detailed pages and renaming them so that this happens twice in two different places.

Best,
Kate Smile

[This message has been edited by Kate42 (edited March 05, 2000).]

[This message has been edited by Kate42 (edited March 05, 2000).]