Breaking up the $links variable

By netentropy on 22 May 2008 at 01:03 UTC

I want to know how to break up the parts of the $links variable in a themed node

for instance

I know print $links will display things like comment, blog link and the service links digg image

how could i split these apart

I know this is wrong but maybe it will give you an idea of what i am trying to do

print $comment_links
print $blog_link
print $service_links

Thanks

Comments

If you have access to $node

nevets commented 22 May 2008 at 01:23

If you have access to $node (for example in node.tpl.php) you can access the links as an array using $node->links. Each element of the array is an array.

Print the links array to see

Jeff Burnz commented 22 May 2008 at 01:33

Print the links array to see whats there...

<pre><?php print_r($node->links)?></pre>

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So then I can just implode

netentropy commented 22 May 2008 at 18:09

So then I can just implode the array?

this tells me what array is

netentropy commented 29 May 2008 at 16:28

this tells me what array is displayed on the page

but i want to know

how can i just recreate the comment portion of the $links variable with all the same functions as comments whether logged in or not

were you able to figure out

taqwa commented 21 August 2008 at 23:43

were you able to figure out how to do this?

Comments links for all users

kmadel commented 26 August 2008 at 14:17

I believe you should just be able to change permissions for who can create comments - add the anonymous role.

Subscribing, whats on

summit commented 31 October 2008 at 20:26

Subscribing, whats on $links, greetings, Martijn

i still don't see how to do

netentropy commented 30 November 2008 at 05:30

i still don't see how to do this

i need to separately call the comments and the read more

not just have it display by calling $links

Hi, So could I

summit commented 7 January 2009 at 14:54

Hi,

So could I put

<pre><?php print ($node->links[1])?></pre>

in page.tpl.php to only get element 1 of the $links array? Is that what this thread says?
I will try this. Now not behind pc where I have access to my source.

Greetings,
Martijn

Any Luck?

ytorf commented 27 February 2009 at 19:37

Hi,

Did anyone have any luck with this? About to try what Summit/Martijn suggested.

Georg

Hi, No it didn't work for me

summit commented 27 February 2009 at 23:15

Hi, No it didn't work for me somehow..sorry for the late response. Someone else have a suggestion?

I figured it out, if anybody is still interested.

cbroberts26 commented 19 May 2009 at 22:28

My task was to get rid of the "add comment" option on a taxonomy term page, among some other modifications. To separate the array elements in $link and only display the "Read more" link, in node.tpl.php I replaced

print $links;

with this:

print "<a href='/".$node->links["node_read_more"]["href"]."' title='".$node->links["node_read_more"]["attributes"]["title"]."..' >".$node->links["node_read_more"]["title"]."</a>";

I couldn't get it to work using index numbers (i.e., $node->links[0][1]). I had to use the string values. That appears to be the trick.

Note the forward slash inserted at the beginning of the link. That's important.

cbroberts26, THANK YOU. this

aschiwi commented 25 May 2009 at 14:15

cbroberts26, THANK YOU. this was not easy, tried a bunch of things and yours finally got me the right solution. I think you wrote your code for Drupal 5? The following worked for me in Drupal 6 (there your code got me 2 links, one empty and one correct):

print " 
// the following line shows the "read more" link
".$node->links["node_read_more"]["href"]." ".$node->links["node_read_more"]["title"]."
// the following line shows the "add comment" link
".$node->links["comment_add"]["href"]." ".$node->links["comment_add"]["title"]."
";

And this following code shows what variables are available at all:

<pre><?php print_r($node->links)

why does something like

netentropy commented 27 May 2009 at 17:21

why does something like $links[0] and $links[1] not work?

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WorldFallz commented 27 May 2009 at 17:37

Because the links variable is an associative array with string keys.

As an aside, I find it much easier and more intuitive to alter the links array with theme_links in the template.php file.

ues but even using the string

netentropy commented 28 May 2009 at 13:26

ues but even using the string key in the brackets does not work

how does this theme function help you seperate them

It allows you to do whatever

WorldFallz commented 28 May 2009 at 14:27

It allows you to do whatever you want to the links before they are rendered. For example, to remove the 'user's blog' link you could do:

<?php
function phptemplate_links($links, $attributes = array()) {
    unset($links['blog_usernames_blog']);
    return theme_links($links, $attributes);
}
?>

It all depends on what you want to do.

Thank you WorldFallz , Works

wooody commented 17 August 2011 at 05:23

Thank you WorldFallz , Works with me .

Drupal 7 Solution?

Gastonia commented 14 December 2011 at 08:14

Could someone post a drupal 7 solution please?