RE: [ cf-dev ] User adding their own links - Suggestions

[Damian Watson]

Well you’d probably want to be using a text editor or otherwise running a regex to pick up any URLs in the text…   However, if this is a specific links page I would advise to break the inputs up as in my initial suggestion.   -----Original Message----- From: James Buckingham [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 24 May 2004 13:29 To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: RE: [ cf-dev ] User adding their own links - Suggestions   Thanks Damian.   A bit of twist on my original question.   What if the client wanted to add a link in the middle of the short description area?   So something like:   This is a short description from www.macromedia.com to tell the user what they should expect by clicking the link. How would you do this?   Or would I just need to tell them that they've got to put the links in a particular place?   Cheers, JamesB   P.S. I'm trying to avoid any third party software or educating the user ;)   From: Damian Watson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 24 May 2004 13:09 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [ cf-dev ] User adding their own links - Suggestions   James... what I generally do is:   a)       text field where they enter the URL- required b)       a link title (text field) required c)       a short description (textarea) optional   This would then output on the public site as:   This is my link title www.link.com This is a short description to tell the user what they should expect by clicking the link.   HTH d       -----Original Message----- From: James Buckingham [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 24 May 2004 12:32 To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: [ cf-dev ] User adding their own links - Suggestions   Afternoon everyone,   I've been asked to create a few pages for a client which will allow them to add/edit/delete a list of 'useful' links on another page.   I'm sure this is a very common request but I was wonder what the best way of creating such a system would be. Any recommendations?   The clients who will be using this are completely non-technical/HTML users so the system has to be very simple.   Can they simply just add http://www.macromedia.com to a text field and that would do the trick OR is there something I should be aware of by doing it this way?   Appreciate your feedback.   Cheers, JamesB