[support] how to handle internal links

[Bèr Kessels]

Op dinsdag 4 juli 2006 23:14, schreef Ray Zimmerman:
> Any other possibilities?


I advice you to not use "hardcoded" links at all. Look at some filters like 
title-filter, interwiki or so. The links package (links module) has other 
nice links handling tools for you. 

That way you only store references to links (reference to the data) and not 
the links themselves (embedded data). 

IMO it is a bad practice to hardcode "stuff" like links, images, quotes, etc 
inside a node. These are 'metadata' things. Hence should live in a separate 
place. 

More pragmatic: If you have references to the data, that gets turned into real 
links (like [link:134]) and you choose to change your internal url scheme 
(pathauto) or you move your server (I recently moved from www.foobar/ to 
foobar/ and had to preg-replace thousands of entries) your code will take 
care of that change.

Bèr