change the nav-link of tag to external link

Question

https://www.question2answer.org/qa/71112/how-to-change-the-nav-link-of-question-to-external-link(refer this link please)

I want to acheive the same functionality for tags,where i need to modify the nav-link of tags...

Solution by pupi for modifying the nav-link of question:

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

What you’re asking doesn’t make sense to me. Why don’t you just redirect the whole site in htaccess?

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@scott....

Because, i need that functionality for my upcoming website

Answer 1

1. Locate this line: https://github.com/q2a/question2answer/blob/3320b653f94ffa1f004d51cc82f0e95f573ff411/qa-theme/SnowFlat/qa-theme.php#L54

2. Copy/Paste this code:

public function post_tag_list($post, $class) {
    foreach ($post['q_tags'] as &$taghtml) {
        preg_match('@<a .*?>(.*?)</a>@i', $taghtml, $matches);
        $taghtml = preg_replace(array('/href=".*?"/i'), array(sprintf('href="https://www.google.com/search?q=%s"', qa_html($matches[1]))), $taghtml);
    }
    parent::post_tag_list($post, $class);
}

Comments

Thank you very much puppi,

it works fine for me.....

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

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Replace:
sprintf('href="https://www.google.com/search?q=%s"', qa_html($matches[1]))
with:
sprintf('target="_blank" href="https://www.google.com/search?q=%s"', qa_html($matches[1]))