Hi - great job on thinking through all the issues surrounding link management. I ported our homegrown weblinks module over to the API version this weekend, and love the new potential for centrally managing and maintaining these.
Two features that might be of value to a lot of people:
1) Adding attributes to the URL was not an easy task, and I think not currently possible at the individual weblink node level. After a long code trace...at I added to the links_get_list function in links.inc at line 1140 :
so as not to give away all our hard earned page rank to some of the links which are more for information purposes. Did this across the board, however would have preferred a way to do that in the edit page of the individual weblink. Likely a few other common attributes for links that would be nice to include in the weblink module. Doing it at the weblink node level would be granular enough for me...
$attr['rel'] = 'nofollow';
2) But what would really make our editors lives better, would be an integration with FCKeditor's link tool. Where weblink nodes could be picked from an organized list (it has a lookup function out of the box, not sure if it can be configured to lookup link nodes) - and then class/rel/style and other attributes could be assigned with each link placement. We've used tinymce too, but fckeditor is cleaner - basically integration with the link buttons that exist already for bloggers.
2+) To expand this idea - if inside the FCK editor, I could create the weblink node - that would actually be ideal... So editors don't have to have a 2 step process creating a weblink & then associating it into their posts.
Great work on this, you have likely already thought of these ideas, but things I ran into while migrating over.
-Greg
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