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

[Larry Garfield]

On Sunday 28 January 2007 4:01 pm, cl at isbd.net wrote:

> I was hoping to avoid HTML by using Drupal (or another CMS), I thought
> the point of the exercise was to make it easy for non-techie people to
> enter web content.

I think a lot of this boils down to the question of what you mean 
by "content".

If your "content" is a list of names, phone numbers, scores, or other small 
bits of content, then you are best served by using CCK to have lots of little 
fields of primitive content (plain strings, numbers, etc.).  Then your uses 
aren't writing HTML, but get a stock layout that you define in the template.  
This is closest to the "Access forms" example.

If you want them to be able to define "freeform blobs of text", then, quite 
simply, any program that claims to let you do that without HTML (either 
hand-written or code-generated like TinyMCE) is lying.  It has to be HTML 
when it gets to the browser.  Somewhere between the user's brain and the 
print statement that sends it to the browser later, it has to get converted 
to HTML.  That can be something the user does himself or something TinyMCE 
(or any other markup assistance utility) does, but it has to happen 
somewhere.

Even using something like the internal link module (which lets you specify a 
link to another page on the site by its path, like so: [node/5]) gets 
rendered down to HTML eventually.  That is unavoidable, no matter what 
publishing system you use.  If you want to format something, you need a 
formatting system and syntax and you need to know that system and syntax.  
That's the case even in word processors.

Perhaps you can give a better example of what sort of content your users will 
be adding?  That would make it easier to recommend something to you (Drupal 
or otherwise).  

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