"Links In The Head" module: Links disappear

Links set up with the "Links In The Head" module disappear sometimes and obviously can displayed again after deinstalling and re-installing the module.

What might this be caused by?

Nice greetings, Dirk

Gallery version 2.2.4 / full package
PHP version 4.4.8 apache2handler (going to change to one of the newest, stable php releases, 5.X)
Webserver Apache
Database mysqlt 4.1.22-max-log (going to change to one of the newest, stable releases)
Toolkits Thumbnail, Gd
Operating system Linux dd16114 2.6.24.4-nmm2 #2 SMP Tue Apr 15 18:13:27 CEST 2008 i686
Browser Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 5.1)

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Hi Dirkii,

how much links do you need to implement and how often they will change? In other Words would it be acceptable for you to write them hard coded in the tpl files?

Cheers Jens
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Hi Dirk,

normally the section to alter is in the file /themes/<them-name>/templates/theme.tpl.
I am using the X_treme theme. The following is only an example for this theme. Other themes may have integrated the system links another way. The relevant lines of code for this example are between lines 784 and 856.

The part for one link is e.g.:

            {if $theme.params.link1}
              <a href="{$theme.params.link1url}">{$theme.params.link1}</a>
	      {assign var='TopLinksseparator' value='0'}
            {/if}

You could alter these lines to:

              <a href="URL-for-your-link">Name of the Link</a>
	      {assign var='TopLinksseparator' value='0'}

To let your links break the line if they are to wide you should have a look at line 784:
<td style="width:50%;text-align:right" nowrap="nowrap" class="SystemLinks">
After removing nowrap="nowrap" they should be break ;-)

If you are using aonther theme or not be able to find the corresponding lines at your theme.tpl you can send me your theme.tpl via PM.

Cheers,
Jens

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Is there another way to put links "in the head" without this module? I have run into the same problems and have since removed it.

Stop the clock... I found the bug, I think. (45 minutes... not bad.)

The module author calls GalleryCoreApi::removeAllPluginParameters('module', 'linksinthehead'); every time the contents of the module's admin page is saved (and then goes on to rewrite the contents) without realising that that API function wipes the secret _callbacks parameter (which should contain getSystemLinks|getSiteAdminViews). Without that parameter the links aren't collected to be displayed and the module's admin page disappears from view. Why does it persist until the next module is installed? I think actually it persists until that part of the database cache is refreshed.

I'll sort out a fix tomorrow and see if that does the trick.

This bug is now (I think) fixed - and the new version is available from the community repository - via the more plugins admin page.

I'd never tried it before, although now you mention it, it doesn't seem to work for me either. I'm not really sure how it's supposed to function.

I've removed the markup options from the template as you suggested; the modified code should be available from the repository after the next repository sweep.

Hi Dirk,

As you probably know, all it's possible for this module to do is declare the links. It's up to your theme how to display them, just as it is for all the other links like login/logout, Site Admin and so on. If you want to add blank lines you should modify your theme templates.

Hi Dirk,

Yes I understand what you mean. It's not possible. But it's up to your *theme* to decide how to display the links, on which part of the page, which fonts, which styles and sizes etc. All this module can do is say "here's a list of links" just the same as all the other modules - there's nowhere to say "put a line break here, here and here but not here" - that's all at the discretion of the theme templates only.

Oops, as I have just seen the behaviour of the "Links in Head" module seems to be the same like before: the added links suddenly disappear and after deinstalling and re-installing the module they are dispalyed again.

Nice greetings, Dirk

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0.1.2 if I see right, alecmyers.
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I`ll try to: If I remember right, I have done anything other than I did before updating, all I have done is just to test a bit with the "Links in Head" module, just delete and add links and suddenly they are disappeared, that`s all if I remember right. So I assume they disappeared instantly after deleting or after deleting and adding. I do not remember another related action to the module I might have done.

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Hallo alecmyers,

Checking what you told me, I just saw that the module is deactivated though I do not mean to have done it. The links are displayed, nevertheless. I activated the module and the links stayed displayed, then I deactivated it and the links disappeared. After activating they are displayed, again. The "Site-Administration" link always was displayed doing this. Adding a new link worked okay, deleting two of about six links worked, also.

I have never noticed the "Site-Administration" link disappearing while testing and before.

I have downloaded a new module to see the behaviour of the "Links in Head" module. The links remained displaying.

I deactivated and activated any module the links added by the "Links in Head" module kept dispalayed.

I cannot reconstruct a situation at the moment which let the links disappear.

The fields of the module I have never noticed blank.

Actually Jens' method to add new links is very useful for me because I do not intend to change links after setting them and, so I can control the line breaks, also, so I will use it, I assume.

I will be watching the modules behaviour and if you have any question...

Many thanks for your help, Dirk.

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There's nothing about running Gallery on a windows server that means it shouldn't be able to download from the repository... maybe that's something you could investigate.

As far as editing your template file goes, usually if you make some obvious change to a template and it doesn't show up you either a)have template caching on or b)are editing the wrong file (like from a theme you're not using, or there's a local/ variant and you're editing the original.

So a) turn off template caching on your admin->performance (I think) page, if you're using it, for as long as you're editing templates - only necessary if you're using 2.3 - and b) add some plain-text to the template where you want the link to appear, and verify that it shows up in the html. If it doesn't, double, triple, quadruple check exactly which file you're editing.

Finally if you're editing template files, leave the original intact, and put your editing copy in a local/ subdirectory - that way your updates survive upgrades.

Finally (OK, I lied) yes, as far as I know, linksinthehead is stable.