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1. artsfantasy
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #
   

   Hi there, great plugin i love it!

   I am trying to hack the plugin so i can define a rel attribute for a link and... i need a bit of help :D

   I am not a master in PHP, but im not a beginner eather, but i would appreciate some guidance here before ill break the plugin.

   So in plugins index.php i have found the output that the plugin is generating, and then i have discovered that this wont be so easy. here is what the output looks like

   [Code moderated as per the Forum Rules. Please use the pastebin]

   Now you can see that the link is being outputed with a 'fetch_link_settings' function. That looks like this:

   function fetch_link_settings(){
   			global $post;
   			// If the destination url is set by the user, use that.  Otherwise, use the permalink
   			$destination_url = get_post_meta($post->ID, '_promo_slider_url', TRUE);
   			if( !$destination_url ) $destination_url = get_permalink($post->ID);
   			// If the target attribute is set the user, use that.  Otherwise, set it to _self
   			$target = get_post_meta($post->ID, '_promo_slider_target', TRUE);
   			if( !$target ) $target = '_self';
   			// Setup the disable links variable
   			$disable_links = get_post_meta($post->ID, '_promo_slider_disable_links', TRUE);
   			return compact('destination_url', 'target', 'disable_links');
   		}

   now im a bit confused as to how to add a PHP code that in human language would sound something like this:

   If custom field x value is true then output custom field value to links rel, else do nothing.

   any help here?

   http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/promotion-slider/

2. Micah Wood
   Member
   Plugin Author
   Posted 1 year ago #
   

   Sorry, part of your code was moderated so I am not sure I am fully getting what you are trying to do.

   I believe you would just add something to this effect:

   global $post;
   $custom_field = get_post_meta( $post->ID, '_my_custom_field', true );
   if( $custom_field ) {
       // DO STUFF
   }

3. artsfantasy
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #
   

   Hi woodent, thanks for your help! You should receive a WordPress medallion for all the help that you have done here in the wordpress community.

   This unfortunately does not do the trick.

   Let me clarify what i want to do.
   The Promotion Slider outputs a link, i want to add to that output of that rel parameter of that link.

   So
   <a href="$destination_url" target="$target" rel="custom field defined rel">

   I have enabled custom fields for the Promotion Slider, now what i think i need to do is edit the above
   

   function fetch_link_settings()

   so it actually will output the rel parameter as well.

4. Micah Wood
   Member
   Plugin Author
   Posted 1 year ago #
   

   Right. So I guess you would add this to your function:

   $custom_field = get_post_meta( $post->ID, '_my_custom_field', true );

   Then make sure and pass $custom_field back via your array. Then you just check if disable links is false before outputting your html. If $custom field is false, then wouldn't output your rel attribute, otherwise you would.

   You could build your html in this type of fashion:

   $link = '';
   $link_settings = fetch_link_settings();
   if( ! $link_settings['disable_links'] ) {
       $link .= '<a href="'.$link_settings['destination_url'].'" target="'.$link_settings['$link_settings['target']'].'"';
       if( $link_settings['custom_field'] ) {
           $link .= ' rel="'.$link_settings['custom_field'].'"';
       }
       $link .= '>YOUR LINK CONTENT</a>';
   }
   echo $link;

5. artsfantasy
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #
   

   looks solid.

   i guess my confusion comes from looking at the plugin code, and not finding any <a href="do php stuff here ...

   Is it possible that php generates the whole link structure without using any echo or print?

   I thought that there is some global attribute that generates the link structure ( by looking at that php code ).

   Basically i though there is some black magic involved here.

   Anywhays, here is a paste bin with the plugin code that i was looking at.

   http://pastebin.com/Bn5c894s

   And yes - thank you again. I will have to delve deeper into the plugin files to figure this thing out it seems and find that <a output.

   Thank you again!

6. Micah Wood
   Member
   Plugin Author
   Posted 1 year ago #
   

   Ah... you would probably want to look in the /includes/function.php file on line 88.

   You should probably be using the 'promoslider_content' action hook to remove the 'promoslider_display_title' function and replace it with your own (see line 7 of the same file).

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