[TYPO3-dev] link to external url behaviour (why not going directly external?)

[Christopher Torgalson]

On Sun, Jan 11, 2009 at 8:04 AM, stefano cecere <scecere at krur.com> wrote:
> Christopher Torgalson wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> On Sat, Jan 10, 2009 at 4:48 PM, stefano cecere <scecere at krur.com> wrote:
>>> since i had some problems with a "link to external url" menu (in a multilanguage, multidomain, reaurled site.. the links were not going "out" but always loaded the home page)
>>>
>>> i was wandering: WHY shouldn't a "link to external URL" page have the extenal URL as direct link (instead of passing to it's typo3 ID page and then do the jump?
>>>
>>> i could make it easily insert a custom PHP script in the HMENU generation.. but shouldn't it be a core option?
>>
>> It's simple in TS. Search this list--your question has been answered
>> several times.
>
> really so simple in TS?

Yes: http://support.typo3.org/snippets/c/105/ And unlike your user
function, with TS you don't have to build the link wrong and then fix
it--you can just do it right in the first place.



-- 
Christopher Torgalson
http://www.typo3apprentice.com/