how to add a link to the bottom of Coranto submit screen?

[Esstee]

Is this hard to do?

I want to create a link like "Mutipart upload" etc. for my own image
editor script, it won't run in the coranto interface so all I need is a
link.

I know absolutely nothing about cgi so I'm hoping someone will help me.
I peered in to various haddons in hope of finding a piece of code I could
replicate but nothing jumps out.

Your help is appreciated.

[Psykosys]

One way to do this would be a quick little addon...

Code: Select all

#! CRADDON 1
#! NAME My Script Link
#! DESCRIPTION Adds a link to the Quick Links bar
#! VERSION 0
#! HOMEPAGE http://coranto.org
#! DOC 1

my $addon = new Addon('My Script Link');
$addon->hook('CRHTMLFoot', 'myscriptlink', 10);

sub myscriptlink {

my $linkything = 'http://www.path.to/your/script.php';
# change this to reflect the path to the script you want to link to

my $linkytitle = 'Image Manager Script';
#change this to what you want the link to say   
   
print '&nbsp;<a href="' . $linkything . '">' . $linkytitle . '</a>&nbsp;';
   }
   
1;


It's late and I'm bad at Perl, but this hopefully works. Just copy and paste into a .pl file with a name beginning with "cra_", change the two variables noted, and put it in your Coranto folder and enable.

[Esstee]

Well thank you Psykosys

I followed your instructions, the link does not appear - just yet
but we are close! I can feel it

I changed the code as follows, tell me if there is anything that stands out:

Code: Select all

#! CRADDON 1
#! NAME My Script Link
#! DESCRIPTION Adds a link to the Quick Links bar
#! VERSION 0
#! HOMEPAGE http://coranto.org
#! DOC 1

my $addon = new Addon('Image manager');
$addon->hook('CRHTMLFoot', 'myscriptlink', 10);

sub myscriptlink {

my $linkything = 'http://www.mysite.com/news/imagemanager/manager.php';
# change this to reflect the path to the script you want to link to

my $linkytitle = 'Image manager';
#change this to what you want the link to say   
   
print '&nbsp;<a href="' . $linkything . '">' . $linkytitle . '</a>&nbsp;';
   }
   

[Parahead]

I followed your instructions, the link does not appear - just yet
but we are close! I can feel it

Just to make sure, have you enabled the addon at the Addon Manager page?

[Esstee]

yes I checkm it never aappeared there

[Parahead]

yes I checkm it never aappeared there

What do you refer to, that the addon didn´t appear on the Addon Manager page? Well, then your top priority should be to figure out why that may be so, that the link doesn´t appear on the Main Page is comes second. Basically, if the addon isn´t running, it can´t be excepted to present a link...

[Esstee]

it never appeared in the addon section

[msbzdragn]

it never appeared in the addon section

Yup, and what he's saying is that your first priority should be to figure out *why* it didn't appear in the addon section (Addon Manager), because until it appears there you can't enable it - and until you enable it, it can't do anything.

[Psykosys]

Hmm... try adding the line:

Code: Select all

__END__

after all the rest of the addon code. And change it so that, instead of having:

Code: Select all

#! NAME My Script Link

and

Code: Select all

my $addon = new Addon('Image manager');

both names match. (Change the name to "Image manager", or change "new Addon('Image manager')" to "new Addon('My Script Link')" I am not sure if it is required for addons for both names to match or if this is just convention (I guess we'll see).

Update: I'm guessing the above isn't your problem though- I tested the addon on my install and it works fine. What's the filename of your addon (should follow format "cra_addonnname.pl" and be in the directory with all the other addons you're using)? It could also be a problem with cutting-and-pasting from the forum, could have added a linebreak somewhere where it shouldn't be. So try downloading the addon directly from here.

[Esstee]

fantastic!

Worked like a knife in butter

It has been placed 2'nd in line on the bottom Coranto function section
how could I move that?

Also there is a | at the begining but no | at the end so it looks like:
Main Page | Image Manager Submit News | Build News |...

I cannot find where are those | are defined in the script?

[kriko]

Replace

Code: Select all

print '&nbsp;<a href="' . $linkything . '">' . $linkytitle . '</a>&nbsp;';

With:

Code: Select all

print '&nbsp;<a href="' . $linkything . '">' . $linkytitle . '</a>&nbsp;|';

[Parahead]

It has been placed 2'nd in line on the bottom Coranto function section how could I move that?

The location of the link depends on in which order your addon places the link in respect to other addons you have enabled. It isn´t really possible to finetune this part, but... Change the value 10 in this line:

Code: Select all

$addon->hook('CRHTMLFoot', 'myscriptlink', 10);

to a value between -10 and 10.

[Esstee]

Thanks kriko and Parahead

I have managed to get things just where I wanted them.
I would consider this challenge solved.

!>enter thumbsup here<!