How to render CCK URL field as a link, not just text?
tmallen - December 16, 2007 - 05:16
For one content on my site, I allow users to upload a link to their website (a gallery of users' personal sites, essentially). But the content type displays this field just as plain text. How can I make these URLs display automatically as links?
Extra Credit: Is there a way to validate user input in this field to make sure that they actually have entered a link? Or would that be a bad idea since there are so many ways to write a URL (using an IP instead of a domain, etc.)?
You could use Contemplate
You could use Contemplate to add the
<a href=""></a>part to the display of your content type's custom link field, but if you're using D5 then the included URLfilter input filter should be turning the URL into a link. Is the URLfilter module working for other posts?For the extra credit part, you could be using the Link CCK field module to do the validation.
URLFilter is reliably
URLFilter is reliably changing URLs from the body text into links, but not in this custom field (type set as Text).
link field?
Are you using Link Field?