Anyone know how I would go about adding a button to the K2 articles that links to blogger.com? I'd like to make it look like the rest of the digg twitter etc buttons currently on K2 by default

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You would open the item file (probably called item.php?) located in the components/com_k2/templates/default folder and insert the button into it. I'm not a php coder, but I think that works because you're just adding button with a link on it. Right? I think the link can just be coded in a typical hyperlink.

I'd like to add a button that emails the site owner with a dynamic subject line that pulls the name of the article. I wonder what the code would be to insert that button. I'm sure it would be easy. Hmm...

Martha

Hi Martha,

I am not a coder either, but I have been hacking a bit on these files today. Before you get started, I would recommend that you create a new template. Just copy the default folder in

/components/com_k2/template

You can call it whatever you want.

Then open the file item.php and do the changes you want. In one way you could say that a button here is a typical hyperlink, but the URL part is a php expression. Here is a link to a thread I started to some buttons. I am sure you can use it as an inspiration to do what you need to do:

k2community.joomlaworks.gr/forum/topics/replacing-print-and-email-in

Hope it works out.

Svein

Martha Moody said:You would open the item file (probably called item.php?) located in the components/com_k2/templates/default folder and insert the button into it. I'm not a php coder, but I think that works because you're just adding button with a link on it. Right? I think the link can just be coded in a typical hyperlink.
I'd like to add a button that emails the site owner with a dynamic subject line that pulls the name of the article. I wonder what the code would be to insert that button. I'm sure it would be easy. Hmm...

Martha