Re: [Phpgedview-talk] Linking to sources from New Block

[Nathan S. H. <nat...@uk...>]

John Finlay wrote:
>> Jørgen F. Dorch wrote:
>>     
>>> I en meddelelse den 02-10-2007 14:09, skrev Nathan S. Haigh :
>>>
>>>       
>>>> When I add a new news item to the news block, is it possible to use
>>>> "special keywords" or anything in order to link to pages within PGV?
>>>>         
>> For
>>     
>>>> example, I have added some new BMD certificate's and would like to be
>>>> able to point to them directly for easy access.
>>>>
>>>> Thanks
>>>> Nathan
>>>>
>>>>         
>>> Yes. The GEDCOM News text allows the use of HTML tags and HTML entities.
>>> However HTML should not be used in News titles.
>>>
>>>
>>>       
>> Hmm, I tried this with one link and that worked. However, when I tried
>> to add more than one link, it went crazy and didn't render them
>> correctly. I'd provide a link with examples, but my webserver is running
>> a memory intensive job and is chugging along slowly. If anyone has an
>> example of a news article containing multiple links, that would be good
>> for me to see!
>>
>>     
>
> I was able to successfully add multiple links to a news entry.  Here is an example:
>
> This is some news with a link
> <a href="individual.php?pid=I1">Link to Person</a>
>
> This is a link to a source:
> <a href="source.php?sid=S1">Link to Source</a>
>
>
> One thing to note is that you can't have any new lines inside the HTML tags as all new lines characters get converted to <br>s.
>
> If you want something more permanent than a news item you can try using the HTML block.
>
> --John
>   

Ok, it worked doing this. I was attempting to put in the full URL
including http:// etc. The first link worked fine, but 2 or more of
these made <span> tags appear in the news.

Thanks
Nath