Internal links in rich text editor

I have been using Markitup and Redactor.

Yeah I will try to explain it with a little example.

e.g. I have a page at "/about.php" and want to link to that page from a rich text field on another page. I would have to insert a link and type in "/about.php" or a complete url like "https://site.tld/about.php"

Instead of that I would like the user to be able to select the about page that is managed by perch and insert the url automatically. And after all it would be nice to keep a reference to that page so that if the url changes I don't have to update that link with the new url. That would mean that perch would have to resolve the current location at runtime (like for navigation?)

Nice, sounds good. It might also be nice to have the same functionality as a field type. Maybe you can take that into consideration, too.

I guess you mean the pagelist field type? No I actually overlooked that by only searching through the documentation leaving out the “Add-ons & Plugins” section on the homepage. Thank you for the hint. That works.

+1 for giving users the ability to choose a page link from within editor (markitup/redactor).

+1 from me too, again, markitup and Redactor.

I have a very simple plugin for Redactor, if you want I can share it.

Sounds interesting. Can you post a link? Thanks!

Just been trying out Andrés Fernández redactor plugin for adding links. Works great!

Andrés, Great work! Thank you for sharing.

I made a tiny adjustment to padding and added a label to the select list by adding this to my custom UI CSS:

#redactor-modal-link-insert section {
    padding: 0;
}

#redactor-modal-link-insert section:before {
    content: "Page";
}

Thanks again.

Andrés Fernández thank you for the solution. This is close but is still missing out on keeping a reference to the selected page after saving. It works for now but I am still looking forward to an official solution that might be implemented by Drew in the future.

I'm not sure it will come anytime soon. I don't think it's high on the importance list.

Until your excellent solution, to create a link to internal pages, I've had to tell editors to navigate to the page in their site they want to link to, copy the URL, come back into Perch, create the link, paste in the url minus the www.theirsite.com part.

So, I'm very grateful for your work.

I find it surprising that this isn't a niggling problem for more users and that the feature hasn't at least made it into Markitup.

I understand the Rachel and Drew don't want to spend their time updating Redactor and the other editors constantly though.

Simon, the syle issues can be solved by replacing the select container element(line 11 in redactorlinks.js), you can also add a label. The code should look like this:

            load: function() {
                var $section = $('<div />');
                var $label = $('<label>Pages</label>');
                var $select = $('<select id="redactor-perch-links" />');

                $section.append($label);
                $section.append($select);

Daniel, the plugin was posted as a very simple solution you can use as a starting point for a bespoke plugin. For example, the regions we use with redactor I have a multiple region(not a repeater) template that requires a title(rendered as an h2) and add an anchor link, which I include in the 'perchlinks' plugin dropdown so the editor can also add link to those regions.

+1 for the feature