how to change the nav-link of question to external link

Question

on clicking a question, it should redirect to an external link instead of landing to the correspondant question page....

how can i acheive it??

normally,

on clicking,

question directs to question page.

i want to achieve like this,

question directing to external link(say www.example.com)

Comments

Can you clarify this question? I don't get it.

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on clicking a question,

question directs to question page.

i want to achieve like this,

question directing to external link(say www.example.com)

i want to direct the user to an external link, when he clicks any questions displayed instead of directing to the correspondant question page......


Please help me with this guys

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Does the receiving URL have a pattern in which the only varying thing is the originating question ID? E.G: http://q2asite.com/123 will be mapped to http://othersite.com/bleh/123

Answer 1

I don't really see the point of having a question and when clicking it, instead of going to the question going somewhere else.

Anyway, assuming the resulting URL varies per question, you might need to create a way to map each question ID to a resulting URL (unless the URL is OK with receiving the question ID). Then you could use a layer to modify the URL dynamically.

Edit:

Based on your comment, in order to achieve your expectations you can follow these steps (assuming you're using the SnowFlat theme):

1. Locate this line: https://github.com/q2a/question2answer/blob/3320b653f94ffa1f004d51cc82f0e95f573ff411/qa-theme/SnowFlat/qa-theme.php#L365

2. Add in there this text:

$q_item['url'] = 'https://www.google.com/search?q=' . $q_item['title'];

Comments

Thank you very much for your reply puppy....

The resulting url say http://othersite.com/ does not varies per question....

The resulting url is same for every questions...


The only varying thing is the originating question ID? E.G: http://q2asite.com/question1 will be mapped to http://othersite.com/bleh/question1


yeah this is what i want to achieve...


once again thank you very much

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Actually, what i am trying to achieve is to perform a google search when a question is clicked...
and the question will become the search query in this scenario....

eg:"how to modify nav-link"

when the above question is clicked,

it should perform a google search like this

www.google.com/search/q?="how to modify nav-link"

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Why are you using Q2A then? You’re not really using it at all. Why don’t you just make a page with a bunch of links to Google?

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I found q2a as a useful software to achieve the above functionality....

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@scott please  help me with this....

where i need to modify the navigation link of the question...... and direct it to an external site

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@pupi

Thanks for your kind reply,

But its not working.....

its saying undefined variable on line 365...

i placed the code in line 365

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It works. If you have really added it to line 365 then you have not added it to the right file :)

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my friend,it works fine


thank you very much.......

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my friend,i want to apply the same changes to  tags,

where i need to change???

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pupi can you tell me ,how to make the link open in new tab or window

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In this line: https://github.com/q2a/question2answer/blob/3320b653f94ffa1f004d51cc82f0e95f573ff411/qa-theme/SnowFlat/qa-theme.php#L370

make sure it starts like this:

'<a target="_blank" href="' ...