How to override footer links on per page basis

[BerkeleyEdu]

Hi,

In MWF 1.2 I set the link in the footer to current file to blank so that it would not be underlined or linked. This is done for usability.

$footer->set_contact('', ''); echo $footer->render();

but this no longer works because all of the footer links are in one array (private $_footer_link_urls) whereas before they we separate (private $_contact_url = '/contact';) so, how can I get this functionality back?

-Sara

[ebollens]

I'm a bit confused what you mean by "in the footer to current file to blank so that it would not be underlined or linked"

As for front page links, you can control them in config/global.ini.

[BerkeleyEdu]

For example on the production site, the footer in the Contact page does not have a the "Contact" in the footer as a hot link:

http://m.berkeley.edu/contact/

Linking to the current page is considered bad for usability.

-Sara

On 8/31/2012 4:54 PM, Eric Bollens wrote:

I'm a bit confused what you mean by "in the footer to current file to blank so that it would not be underlined or linked"

As for front page links, you can control them in |config/global.ini|.

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[ebollens]

To change this, you'd need to override the class Default_Footer_Site_Decorator with your own that has custom behaviors. You could simply program it to use the old method instead.

[Trott]

Untested, but if you know the URL you want to remove from the footer (but leave the associated text intact), I think you'd do something like this prior to rendering the footer:

function remove_link( $title ) {
    $footer_link_titles = Config::get('global', 'footer_link_titles');
    $footer_link_urls = Config::get('global', 'footer_link_urls');
    $found = array_search($title, $footer_link_titles);
    if ($found !== FALSE) {
        unset($footer_link_urls[$found]);
    }
   Config::set('global', 'footer_link_urls', $footer_link_urls);
}

I'm pretty sure that, or something very close to that, should work. Like I said, untested, sorry. But calling remove_link('Contact') before the render() call on the footer should remove the link (but leave the text).

[BerkeleyEdu]

Hi Rich,

Thanks for the hint! The "unset" messed up the for loop in footer.class.php so I set the link to 'link_removed' then test later to see if a link should be rendered.

public function &remove_link( $title ) { $found = array_search($title, $this->_footer_link_titles); if ($found !== FALSE) { $this->_footer_link_urls[$found] = 'link_removed'; } return $this; } ... for ($i = 0; $i < count($this->_footer_link_urls); $i++) { if ($this->_footer_link_urls[$i] == 'link_removed') { $p->add_inner($this->_footer_link_titles[$i]); } else { $p->add_inner_tag('a', $this->_footer_link_titles[$i], array('href' => $this->_footer_link_urls[$i]));

On 8/31/12 6:23 PM, Trott wrote:

Untested, but if you know the URL you want to remove from the footer (but leave the associated text intact), I think you'd do something like this prior to rendering the footer:

function remove_link( $title ) { $footer_link_titles = Config::get('global', 'footer_link_titles'); $footer_link_urls = Config::get('global', 'footer_link_urls'); $found = array_search($title, $footer_link_titles); if ($found !== FALSE) { unset($footer_link_urls[$found]); } Config::set('global', 'footer_link_urls', $footer_link_urls); }

I'm pretty sure that, or something very close to that, should work. Like I said, untested, sorry. But calling |remove_link('Contact')| before the |render()| call on the footer should remove the link (but leave the text).

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[rrocchio]

Closing this issue as this system has long since been deprecated.