Jump Links

hello drupal admins...

i would like to submit a module to the drupal community which i feel helps fill a hole which i have seen as a request from some of the clients i have worked with in the past. my module's name is "jump links" and it provides a way to add random, miscellaneous links on a per-page basis. It generates a single block of these links which can be placed in any region on your site.

project link: http://drupal.org/sandbox/digitalsweetspot/1142956

users have an admin page where they can add/edit/delete their jump links. when adding or editing a jump link, the following form fields are available:

• Display name: the name of the link as it is displayed to the user
• Destination URL: the url which the user will be taken to upon clicking the link
• Page(s) displayed on: a listing of pages which will be used to determine whether or not a Jump Link will be shown in the block

it takes some functionality from drupal's block module, but applies in in reverse. rather than telling the block which pages it is allowed to be viewed on, this module lets the jump links themselves determine which page they will be listed on, base on the "page(s) displayed on" data for that link.

i had been searching for other modules which do this, but was unable to find one. sure, there are other modules that provide simple redirect functionality, but nothing that acts like quite like this. this module acts like a menu system, but is much more flexible with the nature in how it outputs links. rather than building a menu, applying that menu to a block/region, and then hard-setting that block to only display on certain pages, which could ultimately cause you to have to create many, many menus and blocks...all of that functionality is achieve within one single block, whose nature is to be available at all times on every page, and let the list of jump links determine which pages this block will appear on.

while developing this module, i have received great feedback from other developers i have bounced this off of. i think this is a different way to approach adding links to a page, and one which the drupal community could greatly utilize.

i want to thank you in advance for your time and consideration. i look forward to hearing any feedback you may have.

cheers!
jon hopewell
(digitalsweetspot)