well, you can add a link of course, all you have to do is to modify the file

components/com_muscol/views/album/tmpl/default.php

and add a link element surrounding the album title. but.. where will the link to amazon stored in every album? (you can use the Buy Link field...)

the variable for the buy link is stored in

$this->album->buy_link

Hi Germi,

yes you are correct-it is a little bit stupid to add the url to the album title

My problem is - i can not use your buy link field because i use the amazon affiliate program. i get from amazon not a simple link, i get an html code with java inside - so i have to put this code on every site to generate the link with my affiliate program id.

but the code is different for every album, right?

then you need an extra field on the album form (and on the database table for albums)...

yes the code is different for every album

where is the Buy field displayed? I typed into this field http://www.amazon.de/gp/product/B001EOQUIM?ie=UTF8&48es5d8e4&linkCode=as2&camp=4812&creative=6742&creativeASIN=B001EOQUIM but i dont see anything in the frontend?

Show buy button on album is on "yes" on the the parameters settings

it should appear under the album title...

sorry: it appear next to the player, under the album front sleeve

Hi Germi,

hm...i dont see this link

i made some changes on the template but i tried it with the original template, too. no link

here is a link -> http://www.sound-ecke.de/sound-ecke/a/anthony-b/rise-up
no other album has at the moment a buy link

when did you installed the upgrade to version 1.5?

please, paste here your views/album/tmpl/default.php file so I can see if it is the latest version

i installed it a few days after you puplished it on your site.

i attached the default.php because the code is not dispalyed correct in the forum [file name=default-20090911.zip size=3191]http://www.joomlamusicsolutions.com/images/fbfiles/files/default-20090911.zip[/file]

hello

it is up-to-date, so no problem with it. look at line 105... it should show up if you have the param enabled and something written on the buy link field!!

Hi,

the line 105 looks ok
i cann not show the code here becaus it is cut out

the parameter in the setting is set to yes for Show BUY button on albums (where can i check if the setting is correct in the code?)

i have some text in the buy link of the album - i tried 2 different links.

no buy album is shown on the album :/
I deleted all text for the album like tracklist and so an because there are some amazon script inside - no change.

...mmmm are you sure you are editing the right file... this you say sounds like it cannot be... you change texts and they dont change? then you are not editing what you should..:S

Hi

sometimes pictures say more than thousand words

i attached a zip with 3 jpg inside. they show that

1. there is a buy link in the album
2. the main parameter is set to yes for show buy link in albums
3. there is no link in the frontend for buy this album

Greetings

I believe you... but... you forgot to attach the ZIP !! :lol:

shit :blush:

now here is the zip: (ok its to big - here is the rapidshare link: http://rapidshare.com/files/279013914/no_buy_link.zip.html

I really dont understand..:S everything is ok!! why is not showing up??
....
just for now, why dont you just delete the "if($this->params->get('allowalbumbuy'))" on the template file..? if that works , then we will know that there is something wrong with this parameter...

Hi,

so i delete "if($this->params->get('allowalbumbuy') && $this->album->buy_link != "")"

if i delete only "if($this->params->get('allowalbumbuy')) i get a white page

nothing changed - no "buy album" is displayed :/

delete only "$this->params->get('allowalbumbuy') &&"

so it remains:

if($this->album->buy_link != "")

Hi,

so i changed it - now it looks like:
"params->get('allowalbumbuy') && $this->album->buy_link != ""){ ?>buy_link; ?>" title="" target="_blank">"

the code is cut up :/

EDIT: i uploaded a default.php from a few days ago. The original file without any changes from me. The same problem...

maybe.. this is *really* strange :S

hi,
yes...hm... i edit my last post. i uploaded a old (original) default.php - the encoding with DOS is normal :/
but also with the orignal default.php there is no buy link...

shit

is it possible that i "destroyed" something in a other file while i changed some other things??

maybe a stupid question - you dont see the buy link, arent you? http://www.sound-ecke.de/sound-ecke/a/anthony-b/rise-up

because i use win7 and i hope i'm not the only one who dont see the link

mmmmm... I dont think so. very unlikely

hey, try to write something directly on the template file, some dummy text there where the buy link is suposed to appear... and check out if it shows up.

also... check your views/album/tmpl/ folder. is there any other file there, besides of default.php and index.html ?

hm..there are 4 files in the temp folder
default.php
default.xml
default_album.php
index.html

i changed the buy link - but i'M not sure if this is correct

i add a txt file because the forum cut out the code [file name=Neues_Textdokument_2.txt size=258]http://www.joomlamusicsolutions.com/images/fbfiles/files/neues_textdokument_2.txt[/file]

does this works? I mean... do you see this "TEST" text that you added?

no - nothing

... try cutting out the "if" condition: just write some dummy text. I think there's something going on here... like it's not rendering this template but another...

you are uploading the file to your server every time you make a change, right?

yes i upload the file

i upload now the original untouched default.php from the update zip file and deleted the german language ini - same problem

i delete teh if condition (attached the code, is this correct?)
same problem [file name=Neues_Textdokument_2-20090912.txt size=226]http://www.joomlamusicsolutions.com/images/fbfiles/files/neues_textdokument_2-20090912.txt[/file]

hey, to delete the IF sentence you must also delete the initial { and the final } ... (I guess you're not familiar to PHP

or just replace the current "IF" for "if(true){"...

yes i'm not really familiar to php :/ sorry!

i changed it again - is it corrct now?? with this code - same problem


[file name=Neues_Textdokument_2-20090912-2.txt size=224]http://www.joomlamusicsolutions.com/images/fbfiles/files/neues_textdokument_2-20090912-2.txt[/file]

yes, the code is correct. so the problem is clear now: it is not rendering this template!!! :S maybe some cache in your site? can you clean up the cache?

i clean up the cache with the joomla feature - tools -> clean cache

same problem

hi,

i dont know how to solve this problem, so i will insert manually the amazon link in the album description. this works fine - maybe the buy link will work in the next version on my page