Problem if alink is an alt tag for an image+compatability with Views & Taxo

More info, if the alink is part of an image filename or path it can mess up the image

ie. http://www.mydomain.com/drupal/files/******HERE****

Forgot to say if the alink matches 'mydomain' it doesnt appear to have an effect so it may be related to after the path after files/

http://www.mydomain.com/drupal/files/myfile

more info

if you create an alink of 'table border', and you have a table on your node, watch it dissapear

it appears the alink is substituting almost any code even '<'

The issue with Views maybe as i use 'Insert View' module http://drupal.org/project/insert_view to insert the output of a view into a node

here is an example on my test site

http://cms2.crydee.com/?q=node/2021

'Magician' is the alink term

I would have expected the first reference to Magician in the body of each node of the linked view to be affected, but it can see why it may only affect the first entry. If you now select the title of the first or second entry to go to the node itself the alink appears, although broken in this case

As to the issue with Taxonomy i just realised that the page i thought was taxonomy was an inserted view :)

If i can help test this one let me know, i have been looking for this for sometime, the older autolink module thats around only appears to work for 4.7

OK i now have a handle on the cause of the problem with views. If the views 'Page' 'View Type' is set to 'list view', the links do not appear, but if they are set to 'Full Node' they do unfortunately full node is not always the best choice

I agree I can see no point in linking from the title, especially as it may already link to the full node, and i guess it could cause problems with the existing links

The biggest problem i see is that there is likely to be a need to have code on a page, otherwise a website will be rather plain. A list of tags and symbols could be created and used to prevent creation of alinks that would cause a problem, but then there is still a problem with paths in URL links, alt tags etc. Being no coder these are just thoughts

A couple of ideas

In admin settings of alinks is there a way of setting an option for all case variants of a link so you only need one entry. i.e ALINK Alink aLink would all be linked to the same place, but in other cases you can permit each to have a different destination

Another thing came to mind was rather than having first occurence linked, or 'x' count linked, what about every 'x' count ie every 5th occurence maybe it would save overhead on long pages

I think once you solve the linking issue the module is going to be a great asset for many, keep up the good work

It sounds like you have made good progress on the link issue

A theoretical scenario,
I have a website and link several occurences of word 'x' to a specific location. I then realise that this is becoming a common link so i should use an Alink.

Options

1/Ignore existing links then all new links are by Alink - problem is if i change the Alink destination the existing links do not get changed

2/Strip existing links where an Alink exists for the 'word string' and replace with the Alink - The argument being i intended word 'x' to link to location 'y' so i should accept that it will happen in all cases

Note: there may have been a specific reason why you linked the 25th occurence of word 'x' on a page, so stripping links may have to be applied to only the number of links defined in settings not all on the page

Unfortunately both options have their own merits. Hope this helps with the link issue

The main thing is User Beware - Think Before you Link

Been playing further with how Alink works in 'Views' which earlier in the thread you mentiond that Alink is compatable with 'Full Nodes' and 'Teasers' only in 'Views'.

Rereading your response, I think that you may have assumed that in using the 'List View' option I only have the Titles.

In my case I add the 'Node Body' to the 'Fields' list. I use this option to display the whole node but without the Title linking to the new node, as happens in 'Full Nodes'. I cant see the point of offering someone the option of clicking the title to open a new page showing exactly what they have already read, it also removes the read more option which also isn't needed if its all already displayed.

If it is possible to allow Alink to affect the Node body when it appears in 'List View' it would be great

Its looking good, if the link is part of an alt tag, or path, it seems to work OK now.

I did a test of an A link which is part of an existing link, it came up with an interesting result, which may or may not work depending on your point of view. If its restricted to whole words it may be good

example 1

Existing Link - 'ONE TWO THREE FOUR' takes you to 'LINK1'

add an ALink for 'THREE FOUR' that takes you to 'LINK2'

the result is that for 'ONE TWO THREE FOUR'
'ONE TWO' takes you to 'LINK1'
and
'THREE FOUR' takes you to 'LINK2'

example2

Existing Link - 'ONE TWO THREE FOUR' takes you to 'LINK1'

add an ALink for 'TWO THREE' that takes you to 'LINK2'

the result is that for 'ONE TWO THREE FOUR'
'ONE' takes you to 'LINK1'
and
'TWO THREE' takes you to 'LINK2'
and
'FOUR' becomes unlinked text again

To sumarise, in example 1 you could probably get away with it, but example 2 you coudl not

Which ever way you decide to go, either stripping existing link and replacing, or leaving as is, there is probably no right way, so the user will find a solution for the exception to the rule

I have been thinking on this more during the day and agree that link sould be left as is.

Ideally, this should be one of the first modules installed when a site is created, even better if it were in core That way a user could decide if they want a new link to be singular or across the site as an Alink.

I added the patch, but somehow got it wrong so downloaded the dev version from last night. All seems to work fine

// $Id: alinks.module,v 1.7 2007/04/25 22:46:35 tic2000 Exp $

Will test further during the day, but as it is, all the basic functions seem to be there and working, now you can play with the bells and whistles :)