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November 07, 2008 6:39pm
Subscribe [2]#1 / Nov 07, 2008 6:39pm
I’d like to be able to allow a user to click on the title of an article and be hyper-linked to display directly a .pdf file or even link to another url address to display a lengthy article.
I have been trying to figure out how to do this but it eludes me.
Any ideas, thoughts, suggestions?
Many thanx
Paul Munnis
#2 / Nov 07, 2008 7:00pm
as in aka “read more…” links?
It is just a link to a new template (eg. ‘read’) where you show the rest of the weblog fields.
<a href="http://{title_permalink={my_template_group}/read}">Read more…</a>If you want to have download fire on visit (onLoad) of that template then you can use some javascript.
[removed]
<!--
function redirect () {
[removed].href = "{exp:weblog:entries weblog="my_weblog"}{field_fileurl}{/exp:weblog:entries}"
}
//-->
[removed]
<body>
<div align="center">
If your download doesn't start automatically then please
<a href="http://{exp:weblog:entries">Download File Manually</a>
« <a href="http://www.site.com/index.php/template_grp/">Back to Downloads Section</a>
</div>
</body>edit note:js code is getting gobbled up.
#3 / Nov 07, 2008 7:09pm
Many thanx. I’ll give the Javascript approach a shot and see how redirect works for me.
- Paul
#4 / Nov 07, 2008 7:14pm
Here is attached image of the JS in case you need it. In essence it is redirect on load of super simple body of the page. The reason I did it this way in case JS fails there is a manual link. Weblog field “field_fileurl” is used to store full url of the file uploaded.
Also see test here just hit the download link.
Hope it works for you.
p.s. now that I think about it….it doesn’t to be JavaScript….you could use EE’s redirect directly to file…it is only a matter of how you store URL to file in the field of weblog.