CONTENTS OF THIS FILE --------------------- * Introduction * Requirements * Installation * Configuration * Example * Theming and Output * Maintainers INTRODUCTION ------------ The link can be count to the top 50 projects in Drupal installations and provides a standard custom content field for links. With this module links can be added easily to any content types and profiles and include advanced validating and different ways of storing internal or external links and URLs. It also supports additional link text title, site wide tokens for titles and title attributes, target attributes, css class attribution, static repeating values, input conversion, and many more. REQUIREMENTS ------------ No special requirements INSTALLATION ------------ Install as you would normally install a contributed Drupal module. See: https://drupal.org/documentation/install/modules-themes/modules-7 for further information. CONFIGURATION ------------- * Configuration is only slightly more complicated than a text field. Link text titles for URLs can be made required, set as instead of URL, optional (default), or left out entirely. If no link text title is provided, the trimmed version of the complete URL will be displayed. The target attribute should be set to "_blank", "top", or left out completely (checkboxes provide info). The rel=nofollow attribute prevents the link from being followed by certain search engines. More info at Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spam_in_blogs#rel.3D.22nofollow.22). EXAMPLE ------- If you were to create a field named 'My New Link', the default display of the link would be: where items between [] characters would be customized based on the user input. The link project supports both, internal and external URLs. URLs are validated on input. Here are some examples of data input and the default view of a link: http://drupal.org results in http://drupal.org, but drupal.org results in http://drupal.org, while will convert into http://drupal.org and node/74971 into http://drupal.org/project/link Anchors and query strings may also be used in any of these cases, including: node/74971/edit?destination=node/74972#pager THEMING AND OUTPUT ------------------ Since link module is mainly a data storage field in a modular framework, the theming and output is up to the site builder and other additional modules. There are many modules in the Drupal repository, which control the output of fields perfectly and can handle rules, user actions, markup dependencies, and can vary the output under many different conditions, with much more efficience and flexibility for different scenarios. Please check out modules like views, display suite, panels, etc for such needs MAINTAINERS ----------- Current maintainers: * John C Fiala (jcfiala) - https://www.drupal.org/user/163643 * Renato Gonçalves (RenatoG) - https://www.drupal.org/user/3326031 * Clemens Tolboom (clemens.tolboom) - https://www.drupal.org/user/125814 * diqidoq - https://www.drupal.org/user/1001934 * dropcube - https://www.drupal.org/user/37031 * Tom Kirkpatrick (mrfelton) - https://www.drupal.org/user/305669 * Sumit Madan (sumitmadan) - https://www.drupal.org/user/1538790 * Daniel Kudwien (sun) - https://www.drupal.org/user/54136