I needed the footnote link appearing in the text body to be surrounded by brackets similar to Wikipedia reference links so came up with this patch. Although I don't like custom module patches this seemed the easiest method for my needs. Maybe this feature could be included as an option within the module. I offer this as a suggestion as I don't have the skills to create a proper patch.

HTH,
Doug

Module version: 5x-2.1
Purpose: to place brackets around footnote link in text body. Uses span to use present see_footnote css formatting.
Line: 367
Changes:

-  return '<a class="see_footnote" id="' . $fn['ref_id'] . '" title="' . $fn['text_clean'] . '" href="#' . $fn['fn_id'] . '">' . $fn['value'] . '</a>';}
+  return '<span class="see_footnote">[</span><a class="see_footnote" id="' . $fn['ref_id'] . '" title="' . $fn['text_clean'] . '" href="#' . $fn['fn_id'] . '">' . $fn['value'] . '</a><span class="see_footnote">]</span>';}

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wiredescape’s picture

wiredescape commented

(A little more accurate...)

Lines: 367-369
Changes:

function theme_footnote_link($fn) {
-  return '<a class="see_footnote" id="' . $fn['ref_id'] . 
-         '" title="' . $fn['text_clean'] . '" href="#' . $fn['fn_id'] . '">' .
-         $fn['value'] . '</a>';
}

function theme_footnote_link($fn) {
+  return '<span class="see_footnote">[</span><a class="see_footnote" id="' . 
+  $fn['ref_id'] . '" title="' . $fn['text_clean'] . '" href="#' . $fn['fn_id'] . 
+  '">' . $fn['value'] . '</a><span class="see_footnote">]</span>';
}
hingo’s picture

hingo commented
Status: Active » Closed (won't fix)

Hi Doug

You're doing the right thing here, but better yet: You can do it without patching the module. You can add your own output style of the footnotes into the theme you are using. See the advice at http://drupal.org/node/11811

Basically, add a file template.php and add your functions there, only changing the name:

function phptemplate_footnote_link($fn) {
  return '<span class="see_footnote">[</span><a class="see_footnote" id="' .
  $fn['ref_id'] . '" title="' . $fn['text_clean'] . '" href="#' . $fn['fn_id'] .
  '">' . $fn['value'] . '</a><span class="see_footnote">]</span>';
}

(And if you really do as that page tell you, you put the HTML into a separate template file footnote_link.tpl.php, but the above should already work.)