Related Links component for Joomla v1.1

New MVC version v1.1 is now available. We have rewritten this to be more MVC compliant with Joomla!™ api framework. You can still create links to other articles as before but now there is more flexibility in the display and better language and SEF support.

What's New?

• Complete MVC re-write of component and modules
• Rewritten plugin and module to support tab display (mootools jpane driven)
• Integration with Glossary component (client request so we left it in)
• Standard url creation of related items should guarantee correct Itemids everytime
• Language support
• SEF friendly (Joomla!™ native sef only)

Inspired

Instead of using keywords in  the meta data - we took inspiration from Jonathon Cameron's Attachment component and made a similar type extension with related links.Now you can edit an article, click a button and add a related link to another article with a single click.

Display options
You can choose whether to render the links within the article (plugin) itself in the footer or as a module in a position.

Installation:

Unzip folder and install the four items through the joomla install interface. Publish the editor button and the plugin. Next time you edit an article you can click a related link button below the WYSIWYG editor to make a link. A component called related links lets you manage your related links in one place.

Documentation:

There is none at the moment. We're really busy. Its a beta - its stable in use on production sites but please back up before install and know that you install this at your own risk.

Advanced Module Usage:

You can use this in a special module capacity but using a module overide in your tempates html folder.
Why do this? This is becuase you may want to only show the links data when there is some :)

How?

1. Add the function below to a module.php file in your templates html folder.
2. Add the module style class 'hideempty' to the module
3. Adjust your template so that the module position where you want this to show has the style set to 'hideempty'
   eg   <jdoc:include type="modules" name="right" style="hideempty" />

 
function modChrome_hideempty($module, &$params, &$attribs)
 {

 if (!empty ($module->content)) :
   $style = isset($attribs['modulestyle']) ? $attribs  ['modulestyle'] : 'none';
   $headerLevel = isset($attribs['headerLevel']) ? (int) $attribs['headerLevel'] : 2;
           $functionName = 'modChrome_'.$style;
               echo $functionName($module, $params, $attribs);
        endif;
 }