External Weblinks for Drupal 6.x

Posted by Helio on August 24, 2009 at 1:52pm

Hey guy's,

I'm looking for a module or a way to do the following :

Create categories for links, in these categories you have a list of links with a single line with a description text. a visitor can browse trough the categories and then click on a link that opens in a NEW WINDOW (Like "target_blank" ) .

eg.

www.examplesite.com/something
this link does not work it is a example (description)

I have taken a look at these modules :

http://drupal.org/project/weblinks
http://drupal.org/project/links

The first one is like a blog overview , way to much !
The second one seems ideal , but when installing a get a node_theme error

So is there anything else out there ? its very important that the links open in a new tab or window.

Please help.

Thanx,

Helio

Comments

External Links in a new window

Posted by matkeane on August 24, 2009 at 2:08pm

Hi,

The extlink module - http://drupal.org/project/extlink - can help you with making external links open in a new window.

Links

Posted by Helio on August 24, 2009 at 2:15pm

Does this open every external link in a new window ? i have also looked at this module but i'm not sure on how this works.

Thanx for the quick reply, I hoped i didn't have to build something but it seems that that is the only way.

Ant other suggestions are welcome.

Thanx,

Helio

PDFs/MHTs

Posted by meh on August 24, 2009 at 3:25pm

I'm interested in this too, having previously put the question thus:

Are there any Drupal 'best practices' for displaying PDFs and/or MHTs in a block?

Or for 'shelling out' to display PDFs and/or MHTs in a new tab/window?

Build

Posted by Helio on August 25, 2009 at 11:15am

Hey guy's,

Thanx for all the replies so far.

Well on the matter of a custom web links module or something like that i say the answer is simply ,Taxonomy, CCK and Views. I succeeded in building this functionality withe these module.

Now when going to my weblinks page i have categories wich i can click to open and i then get a viev of all the links in that category or even categories within that category .

Thanx,

Helio

It is good that you are able

Posted by aac on August 25, 2009 at 11:23am

It is good that you are able to achieve it. Could you please write in detail about how you achieved. It may be beneficial to others too.
Thanks!!

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aac

Please look again

Posted by NancyDru on August 30, 2009 at 11:55pm

Web Links is a rather powerful module with many settings to customize and theme it. It certainly can do what you ask. I'm not sure what you mean by a "blog overview" but it can configured just about anyway you can imagine. With over 2,400 users, it must do something right.

However, should you still go with Links, keep in mind that there is a conversion feature in Web Links if you decide to change later on.

NancyDru

External links module

Posted by satch5841 on November 22, 2009 at 10:55am

I suppose you've found a solution already but I will post this 'cause I wandered a bit around to finally this and maybe someone else is doing quite the same, so...

As matkeane says External links module is what you need.
You could use Weblinks or Links, as you prefer, and then use the External links module to get your links open in a new tab.
You just have to configure the module to associate a pattern to links you want to be treated as external. In the options there's even an example for a pattern to match the links generated with the Links module.

Bye

Also

Posted by NancyDru on November 23, 2009 at 1:02pm

Web Links has an option to open links in a new page. Just be aware that use of target="_blank" will not validate on strict XHTML.

NancyDru