Detail Link - Tab Menu

[CEC]

I've been trying to set up a tab menu system that would break out information from detail_link.html

The first tab, in my case, would contain address/contact information; second tab 'Description'; third 'Hours', etc. Instead of having these details all on one page, I'd like them on separate "pages".

I found myself quickly in over my head. Basically, I don't know how to pass specific link-level data (which is rendered by detail_link.html) out into static, external pages -- data such as <%$description%>

Any ideas anyone? Is this possible? How difficult?

[inspireme]

detail.php is the one you need to look at worry about passing variables to the detail.html file and your sorted. Have a look at this mod i did which passes variables to the detail page, you should get the idea :

http://www.nicecoder.com/community/s...ead.php?t=3725

[CEC]

Thanks inspireme.

I've been through your mod, and follow how it works for the purposes it was designed.

I have tried working with the mod, but I'm still really hazy on applying it here -- where 'simply' I want to have, say, a link's description render on a separate page (clickable from link details).

[inspireme]

Oh ok... so the items are all custom fields?

Thats easy then, i think i misunderstood the question, heres how i would do it : save the detail.php file as detail2.php open it and change every occurence of detail.html to detail2.html

Now load detail.html and save this as detail2.html
Load up detail_link.html and save this as detail_link2.html (find and replace occurences of detail_link in detail.php to detail_link2.html)

Now you have a complete working replica of the detail pages renamed.

Make changes to the template files so it displays only the information you want in the new window.

Link to detail2.php from the detail_link page

Hope you understand my logic its simple and easy way around the problem

[CEC]

thanks again inspire me!

couple of quick questions:
1) you note: find and replace occurrences of detail_link in detail.php to detail_link2.html ... * do you mean replace in in detail2.php?

2) not sure I follow the last step: Link to detail2.php from the detail_link page

I think this is the route ... just unsure about a few of these details. Thanks for bearing with me on this!

[inspireme]

i do mean replace it in detail2.php, sorry typo...

the last step is to make the link to the second information page, you will need to link to it like this :

detail2.php?id=<%$link_id%> from the detail_link.html file

[CEC]

test worked! ... thanks very much inspireme.