Re: [Slashcode-development] Template update for 2.0.0-pre3

[Ask S. G. <cl...@sl...>]

On Sun, 29 Apr 2001 22:18:44 -0700 (PDT), randy said:

> I am not sure if this is covered in the archive or not ... I didn't see it
>  in the last couple of weeks.
>  
>  In pre3 the dispStory;misc;default the link that is created for stories in
>  a different section has a hard link to the section directory.
>  
>  I changed
>  
>  [% IF magic;
>          title = "<A
>  HREF=\"$constants.rootdir/$story.section/\"><FONT
>  COLOR=\"$user.fg.3\">$section.title</FONT></A>: $story.title";
>  ELSE;
>          title = story.title;
>  END %]
>  
>  
>  to the following
>  
>  
>  [% IF magic;
>  	title = "<A
>  HREF=\"$constants.rootdir/index.pl?section=$story.section\"><FONT
>  COLOR=\"$user.fg.3\">$section.title</FONT></A>: $story.title";
>  ELSE;
>  	title = story.title;
>  END %]
>  
>  
>  I did the same thing in the light version.
>  
>  I am new to slashcode so I am not sure this is the correct way to submit
>  any items like this.
>  
>  Thank you for your time.
>  

Randy,

These changes aren't necessary unless you want to FORCE your users to go to the
dynamic pages for each section. http://slashdot.org/science/ SHOULD go to the
Science section's index if slashd is functioning properly. Why did you see the
need to make this change?

- Cliff