How do i create a email link in a field and have it become a link as well as check its input format?
nvisioncurtis - July 20, 2009 - 22:47
I have created a new content type called Biography with a new field called email. However the link is not wrapped in a Mailto Achor tag and the email is not validated.
I would like the user to have Drupal validate its format as well as make it a mailto link.
Is this possible?
You may need to provide more
You may need to provide more info on this as this is currently a little vague, but from what I get so far, just override the content type with a tpl file and format the link that way. So for example:
Create a file called node-biography.tpl.php (or whatever your content type name is specifically)
Inside that file, take away the print $content and add your own code to print the parts of the nodes that you want. I don't know how you created the email field (CCK ?) but if you where using CCK, then you could do something like this:
<?phpprint l($node->title, 'mailto:'. $node->field_email[0]['value'])
?>
and that should do the trick, of course with your CCK field exact name. Hope this helps!
Okay I see but is there another way?
So the email is made inside the template not in the content.
Seems to me that there should / would be a content type that would check the input type for a valid email address and automatically wrap in a mailto Anchor.
In your example however It would need to be surrounded by an anchor tag of course.
Its a little confusing to me because I'm no sure how everything works together. For instance I am also using the email obfuscator module too..
Ah I see. It sounds like
Ah I see. It sounds like maybe this is what your looking for instead of doing it the programmatic approach I provided:
http://drupal.org/project/email
Hope that helps!
Yes thats It!
Thank You!
Do you know if I would use emailobfusticator module or SpanSpam?
Does it matter?