[support] How to insert links to other pages on the same site?

Sun Jan 28 16:20:47 UTC 2007

cl at isbd.net wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 28, 2007 at 05:04:07PM +0100, Stefan Borchert wrote:
>> cl at isbd.net schrieb:
>>> Is there no 'easy' way to insert links into content.
>>>
>>> Surely one wants the CMS to do some management of links, apart from
>>> anything else one wants a menu of possible internal pages to link to
>>> so one can avoid typos etc.
>>>   
>> Hi.
>> Ähm, yes there is an "easy" way:
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>> I've created a module (http://drupal.org/project/linktocontent) which 
>> extends tinymce with a plugin that give you the ability to browse to 
>> your categories and insert links. Unfortunately it hasn't been ported to 
>> 5.x yet.
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>> If you don't want to use tinymce you can try wiki-like modules (for 
>> example: http://drupal.org/project/freelinking).
>>
> You must be joking!  All that hassle to do something fundamental to
> CMS (or at least the sort of CMS I want).
> 
> I think my basic problem is that CMS isn't what I thought it was. I
> want to create a fairly basic/straightforward web site, no news, no
> blogs, no wikis, just some basic content to describe what a small
> business does, how to get in touch with us, etc.
> 
> All of the mainline CMS systems (Drupal, Joomla, Plone, etc.) are
> providing a way to design and build a portal with news, blogs, forums
> and all sorts of things like that.  They are strong in the areas of
> adding different sorts of modules, creating nice menus, etc., etc. but
> not very helpful when it comes to details of creating the actual
> content.
> 
> I *can* write HTML if needed but what I'm looking for is something
> that provides me with a fairly simple (menus and other structure)
> framework and then makes it really easy to fill in the content.

How about you write the html content in another application (even w*rd 
would do) and paste it into the textfield that Drupal provides?

Depending on the chosen output filter, only the html elements that are 
allowed would be shown. I.e, <html>, <body> and what not would be in 
your document but not in the output.

Cheers,
	Gerhard