Related Links is a very useful module for any Drupal content management application. Your content can display links to other content in a number of interesting and automated ways, such as based on the content type, the author, common taxonomy terms or keyword search results. But the most straight-forward method is for the author to manually create these links. A related link is created with a space separating the URL from the title:
- solutions Web Application Solutions
or
- http://google.com Goooogle
If the link is important enough to warrant this extra attention (and effort), we think it deserves a teaser line as well, like this:
- Web Application Solutions
We specialize in helping organizations establish a solid, sustainable Information Architecture with a user-centered Web Strategy
While Related Links has no concept of teasers, we can stuff the teaser into the title and then separate the teaser back out on presentation. We will be using the pipe character (|) to delineate between title and teaser:
- solutions Web Application Solutions|We specialize in helping organizations establish a solid, sustainable Information Architecture with a user-centered Web Strategy
Finally, we need to override the theme_relatedlinks output, which will require all of one line of new code for the preg_replace. Place this code in your template.php file.
<?php
//override theme_relatedlinks for teaser support
function phptemplate_relatedlinks($links = array()) {
//capture pipe teaser and append
$links = preg_replace('/^(.*>.*)(\|)(.*)<\/a>$/', '\\1</a><div>\\3</div>', $links);
return theme('item_list', $links, $title);
}
?>
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