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Links Widget passing html


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sleeper

Community Member, 6 Posts

16 July 2009 at 6:25am

Hi all,

Firstly let me just say im getting more and more excited about SS, sure im only trialing it at the moment alongside Modx, but the more i play with it the more i like it and this forum is great for picking up help and advice.

I want to display an image instead of text (Name field) using the Links Widget (http://silverstripe.org/links-widget/), but it won't pass html, so two questions...

Is it possible to edit LinkWidget.php so that it will pass html?

and secondly i wonder if it would be possible to have an image upload option so you can have both an image and a tetx string/name?

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sleeper

Community Member, 6 Posts

18 July 2009 at 1:30am

I got this to work, not in the prettiest way, but here's what i did in case anyone esle wants to use this to display images rather than text strings.

LinkWidget.php

Locate this output section:

$output_1 = "<li><a href='$link1'>$name1</a><br></li>";
	}
	
	if (empty($test2)){
	$output_2 = "";
	}else{
$output_2 = "<li> <a href='$link2'>$name2</a><br></li>";
	}

	if (empty($test3)) {
	$output_3 = "";
	} else {
$output_3 = "<li><a href='$link3'>$name3</a><br></li>";
	}
	
	if (empty($test4)){
	$output_4 = "";
	}else{
$output_4 = "<li> <a href='$link4'>$name4</a><br></li>";
	}

change each output line that you wnat to disply an image for like this:

$output_1 = "<li><a href='$link1'><img src='PATH/TO/IMAGE/$name1' alt='image' /></a><br></li>";
	}
	
	if (empty($test2)){
	$output_2 = "";
	}else{
$output_2 = "<li> <a href='$link2'>$name2</a><br></li>";
	}

	if (empty($test3)) {
	$output_3 = "";
	} else {
$output_3 = "<li><a href='$link3'>$name3</a><br></li>";
	}
	
	if (empty($test4)){
	$output_4 = "";
	}else{
$output_4 = "<li> <a href='$link4'>$name4</a><br></li>";
	}

Now when you enter the name of the text string in the Links Widget in CMS you enter the image name like this 'myimge.gif'

I know this is not up there with the cool mods that others here have done, but it may be useful for someone else.

This works for what i want but ideally i'd lke the option of an image upload so you can have an image diasplyed with alt and title text, it's the image upload that i can't do, but this is a simple workaround.