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Creating a link


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Harley

Community Member, 165 Posts

31 January 2010 at 4:55am

Hi, I have created a relational database to display a log of details. The details are quiet extensive so for the sake of displaying them I have this condensed table as you will see below. What I want to do is link from each row to a page of its own which displays the entry in its entirety.

I have not defined a function for $Link, this is the part I am having trouble with. Any ideas on how I do this? Thanks

<div class="typography">
<h2>$Title</h2>
<table>
<thead>
<tr>
<th>Date</th>
<th>First name</th>
<th>Surname</th>
<th>Gender</th>
<th>D.O.B.</th>
<th>&nbsp;</th>
</tr>
</thead>
<tbody>
<% if CallEvent %>
<% control CallEvent %>
<tr>
<td>$Created.Nice</td>
<td>$PersonDetail.FirstName</td>
<td>$PersonDetail.Surname</td>
<td>$PersonDetail.Gender</td>
<td>$PersonDetail.DateOfBirth.Nice</td>
<td><a href="$Link">Full details</a></td>
</tr>
<% end_control %>
<% else %>
<tr>
<td colspan="2">No records</td>
</tr>
<% end_if %>
</tbody>
</table>

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zenmonkey

Community Member, 545 Posts

31 January 2010 at 10:37am

You're in luck A Tutorial for this was posted this week on ssbits.com :)

http://www.ssbits.com/using-silverstripe-url-parameters-to-display-dataobjects-on-a-page/

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Harley

Community Member, 165 Posts

1 February 2010 at 1:35am

Zen Monkey you're the man! I'll be honest I've not seen anything like that after scouring the internet. I find SS bits really useful, the tutorials and snippets are very practical.

Thanks again