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[jayatunge Friend jayatungeJoin date: July 2011Posts: 94Downloads:0Uploads:41 Thanks: 16 Thanked: 8 times in 1 posts]

#175272

Currently, content slider articles are automatically linking to itself. Is there any way I can override these links? In other words, is it possible to direct all links in the contentslider to a separate one article I prefer?
Any help would be really appreciated.

And also, even if I disable the Title Link and Read more, still the image is linking to the article. How do I disable the image link?

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[Sherlock Friend SherlockJoin date: September 2014Posts: 11453Downloads:0Uploads:88 Thanks: 221 Thanked: 2478 times in 2162 posts]

#445283

Hi jayatunge,

That’s strange, you can try as following steps
1) Create a module parameter in the module back-end to put the link there, open the file of modulesmod_jacontentslidermod_jacontentslider.xml looking for this xml tag

<field
type=”text”
name=”text_heading”
default=””
label=”TEXT_HEADING”
description=”TEXT_HEADING_DESC” />

Adding right below it this new tag

<field
type=”text”
name=”alinks”
default=””
label=”Link For all articles”
/>

2) you open the file of modulesmod_jacontentsliderhelper.php at about line 411 you would see this line of code
[PHP] $data[$i]->link = modJacontentsliderHelper::articleLink($row);[/PHP]

replace it by this block of code
[PHP]
if($params->get(‘alinks’,”) !== ”){
$data[$i]->link = $params->get(‘alinks’);

}else{
$data[$i]->link = modJacontentsliderHelper::articleLink($row);
}
[/PHP]

Also if you want to disable the links for images you can achieve it right on this file , looking for this line of code and just removing it
[PHP] $image = ‘<a href=”‘ . $link . ‘” title=”” class=”ja-image”>’ . $image . ‘</a>’;[/PHP]

I hope those changes make sense !

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1. jayatunge

[jayatunge Friend jayatungeJoin date: July 2011Posts: 94Downloads:0Uploads:41 Thanks: 16 Thanked: 8 times in 1 posts]

#445578

No one to help? Even JA staff or techie?
Almost 05 days with out an answer………………..:((

Please help.

[swissa Friend swissaJoin date: November 2011Posts: 1955Downloads:7Uploads:277 Thanks: 175 Thanked: 717 times in 572 posts]

#445586

<em>@jayatunge 309990 wrote:</em><blockquote>No one to help? Even JA staff or techie?
</blockquote>

Well, I’m neither! I can show you how to turn the link off on the image. Pay attention to my signature because it means hacking a file in joomlaroot/modules/mod_jacontentslider/helper.php

If you take a back-up of the file then you’ll have a fall back.

@ line 576 or thereabouts you need to edit out this line

$image = '<a href="' . $link . '" title="" class="ja-image">' . $image . '</a>';
so make it like this with the double //

//$image = '<a href="' . $link . '" title="" class="ja-image">' . $image . '</a>';

Much like a child who knows how to take things apart but not put them together that’s about all I can help you with! 😀

Bestens

*This works for my content slider v2.5.2

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#445592

Actually, thinking it about and anyone is welcome to correct me if they think I may be wrong.

You maybe could just use the link part to link to the article I think. Of course this will only work if this is the only instance of content slider you intend to use in the site without copying it completely and you would have to manually edit it if you want the link to change…..

But if you feel adventurous and as you have a backup file, you could play to see if it works…

$image = '<a href="your-link-goes-here"</a>';

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#445637

Hi Swissa,
You guided me in the right direction. You rock, Thank you.

Commenting the whole line works, but it removes the bottom shadows from the images. So you have to leave the image class and remove the rest of the coding like this:
$image = ‘<a class=”ja-image”>’ . $image . ‘</a>’;
That really does the trick for me. Thank you!

And I further went ahead and, tried your second posting by hard coding an url I want to direct the page to. Like this:
$image = ‘<a href=”index.php/showcase/item-page” title=”Sample Item Page” class=”ja-image”>’ . $image . ‘</a>’;

That really works! Once again thanks. :-*

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#445662

Glad I was able to shine a light. Thanks for coming back and sharing the full solution – I’ll log this one for my own future reference!!

Merci!

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#446320

Hi Dat Hoang,
I have tried your method too. I think that this is the safest method to achieve the objective of directing all to one external article. So, no need to hard code the link in to the helper.php
Super! Big thank to you Hoang for the clear instructions. :-*

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[kidi Friend kidiJoin date: March 2009Posts: 134Downloads:0Uploads:44 Thanks: 28 Thanked: 2 times in 1 posts]

#469332

Hello,

I’m not very well in english but understand how change the code (I hope).

So in the modules/mod_jacontentslider/helper.php files I change the line :

} else {
$image = '';
}

$image = '<a href="index.php/showcase/item-page" title="Sample Item Page" class="ja-image">' . $image . '</a>';
// clean up globals
return $image;
}

But, sorry for my question, after, how add a different link to an external url for each image (or text) under each content on the content slider ?

It’s certainly an easy question, but I doesn’t know the answer :-[

Thank you for your help.

Have a good evening.

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[Stork11 Friend Stork11Join date: March 2011Posts: 2273Downloads:0Uploads:142 Thanks: 55 Thanked: 431 times in 393 posts]

#469412

<em>@kidi 341356 wrote:</em><blockquote>Hello,

I’m not very well in english but understand how change the code (I hope).

So in the modules/mod_jacontentslider/helper.php files I change the line :

} else {
$image = '';
}

$image = '<a href="index.php/showcase/item-page" title="Sample Item Page" class="ja-image">' . $image . '</a>';
// clean up globals
return $image;
}

But, sorry for my question, after, how add a different link to an external url for each image (or text) under each content on the content slider ?

It’s certainly an easy question, but I doesn’t know the answer :-[

Thank you for your help.

Have a good evening.

</blockquote>
Hello kidi,

What do you mean as you mentioned “different link”? Would you like to append another anchor tag to image (or text)? Is it below code you wanna?
$image = ‘<a href=”index.php/showcase/item-page” title=”Sample Item Page” class=”ja-image”>’ . $image . ‘</a>’ . ‘<a href=”another-link”>Another-Link</a>’;

Regards.

[ditmedie Friend ditmedieJoin date: November 2008Posts: 27Downloads:0Uploads:10 Thanks: 4]

#470766

What if I want a unique link to each image. I don’t just want every image to link to the same. Much like you are able to do in Ja Slideshow where you are able to define link on each image in slideshow..

Any suggestions how to achieve this?

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#470836

<em>@ditmedie 343241 wrote:</em><blockquote>What if I want a unique link to each image. I don’t just want every image to link to the same. Much like you are able to do in Ja Slideshow where you are able to define link on each image in slideshow..

Any suggestions how to achieve this?</blockquote>
Hello ditmedie,

JA ContentSlider only gets links from articles. You can’t define links by manually.

Regards.

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#470837

Hi Ditmedie
You should get a good developer from http://joomlancers.com to do this feature.

Regards,

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#471083

Okay, thanks.. Would be a nice feature to have in the future:)

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