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How do I link to a file from the Product Details view?

Brady Total Posts: 327 Joined: 2007-09-10 Orange County, CA Ignore user	I created a new attribute called “product_support” that’s a text area, so I can fill in some HTML and link to a pdf manual. I’m using the following code: `<a href="{{store url=''}}media/downloads/manual-meap01.pdf">manual-meap01.pdf</a>` but when I visit the live page, it redirects to http://domain.com/category/{{store url=’’}}media//downloads/manual-meap01.pdf The only way I can get it to work is if I hard-link to the file… example: http://domain.com/media/downloads/manual-meap01.pdf Image Attachments Click thumbnail to see full-size image
	Posted: April 28 2008 \| top

Moshe Total Posts: 1770 Joined: 2007-08-07 Los Angeles Ignore user	the {{ }} tags will work in CMS pages, blocks and email templates only. They will not work in custom attributes. The quick fix would be to add this to your catalog/product/view.phtml template around line 90 in default theme: `<?php $_downloadsUrl = Mage::getBaseUrl('media').'/downloads/' ?> <?php foreach ($_additional as $_data): ?> <tr> <td class="label"><?php echo $_data['label'] ?></td> <td class="data"><?php echo str_replace('{{downloads_url}}', $_downloadsUrl, $_data['value']) ?></td> </tr> <?php endforeach; ?>` And add {{downloads_url}} before your file names in the attribute. Signature - I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code -
	Posted: April 28 2008 \| top \| # 1

Moshe Total Posts: 1770 Joined: 2007-08-07 Los Angeles Ignore user	You could also have generic {{base_url}} for general link purpose: `<?php $_baseUrl = Mage::getBaseUrl('web'); ?>` Signature - I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code -
	Posted: April 28 2008 \| top \| # 2

Brady Total Posts: 327 Joined: 2007-09-10 Orange County, CA Ignore user	Thanks Moshe, but didn’t you say that {{ }} does not work in the Attributes? I added the code you suggested around like 90 in catalog/product/view.phtml and added the following to the attribute, but get the same error as mentioned in my post above.: `<a href="{{downloads_url}}manual-meap01.pdf">Download Manual (80 KB PDF)</a>`
	Posted: April 28 2008 \| top \| # 3

Moshe Total Posts: 1770 Joined: 2007-08-07 Los Angeles Ignore user	Did you replace the existing “additional information” code with this? Signature - I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code -
	Posted: April 28 2008 \| top \| # 4

Brady Total Posts: 327 Joined: 2007-09-10 Orange County, CA Ignore user	Ah - didn’t see that. Works great now! Thanks Moshe! P.S. - I removed the “/” before “/downloads/”, so I don’t get a double “//” in the URL request.
	Posted: April 28 2008 \| top \| # 5

LisaPrzy Total Posts: 26 Joined: 2008-02-01 Ignore user	Hi Guys I found your thread and it is very similar to what I have been trying to do, but instead of downloading a file I would like to open a link in a popup window. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks Lisa
	Posted: May 1 2008 \| top \| # 6

dstokdyk Total Posts: 2 Joined: 2007-12-31 Ignore user	LisaPrzy, Did you ever get an answer or work it out for yourself? Would love to see/hear anything you’ve learned, as I posted the same sort of question today—view here <http://www.magentocommerce.com/boards/viewthread/10274/>. Regards, Dale
	Posted: June 17 2008 \| top \| # 7

Kara Heinrichs Total Posts: 482 Joined: 2008-01-17 aa, mi, us Ignore user	To open a link in a new window, just target the link to a named window. To open a link in a pop-up window, use the onclick event in the link and call a javascript function popWin that’s already defined in one of the included libraries. Here’s an example with the link opening in a new window: `<?php $_additional = $this->getAdditionalData(); ?> <!--<?php //var_dump($_additional); ?> use this if you want to dump and view the available attributes for debugging purposes--> <?php if (array_key_exists('warranty', $_additional)):?> <a href="http://media.mycompany.com/warranty/warranty_<?php echo ( $_additional['warranty']['value'] );?>.pdf" target="warr_win">Warranty</a> <?php endif; ?>` Here’s an example with the link opening in a pop-up window: <?php $_additional = $this->getAdditionalData(); ?> <!--<?php //var_dump($_additional); ?> use this if you want to dump and view the available attributes for debugging purposes--> <?php if (array_key_exists('warranty', $_additional)):?> <a href="#" onclick="popWin('http://media.mycompany.com/warranty/warranty_<?php echo ( $_additional['warranty']['value'] );?>.pdf','warr_win','width=800,height=600,resizable=yes,scrollbars=yes')">Warranty</a> <?php endif; ?> Signature Founder and Principal at Brillig House, specializing in Magento consulting, training and theme design. Check out mage-page.net for links to Magento blogs and current articles from around the web.
	Posted: June 17 2008 \| top \| # 8

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