Selflink extension 0.8.16

Create internal links.

Deprecation

This extension is deprecated in favour of Link. In order to transform the Selflink shortcuts into the new Link shortcuts, do the following:

• Make a backup copy of the /content/ folder
• Install Link extension
• Download file selflinkpatch.php
• If you do not want also the generic Markdwown links to be changed into Link shortcuts, delete in selflinkpatch.php lines 24-25
• Copy selflinkpatch.php into the /system/extensions/ folder
• Visit the site with the browser

How to create an internal link

Create an [a] shortcut.

The following two arguments are available, the second of which is optional:

slug = the slug of the page to link, possibly with the fragment
text = the text to be used in the link

Example

Creating a link:

[a somepage]  
[a somepage#fragment]  
[a somepage - text for linking]  

The shortcut creates a link with the full path of the page: so no link will break if you rearrange the structure of the site without modifying the slugs of the pages. The previous examples are thus equivalent to:

[Title of the page](path/to/somepage)  
[text for linking](path/to/somepage)  

But if two or more pages have with the same slug (which in general is not advisable), you must specify the portion of the path which is sufficient to disambiguate:

[a path/to/somepage]  
[a anotherpath/to/somepage]  

If the argument of the shortcut is ambiguous, the behaviour is undefined.

If no page matches the argument, the shortcut creates a link equivalent to this HTML code:

<a href="slug" class="missing">slug</a>  

Installation

Download extension and copy zip file into your system/extensions folder. Right click if you use Safari.

Developer

Giovanni Salmeri. Get help.