read more in teaser

If there is a long enough body to generate a trimmed version, the "read more" link will appear.

But what if there is not enough? I inserted the following into the Teaser Template. It will always generate a "read more..." link to the full node.

<a href="<?php print $base_path ?>/?q=node/<?php print $nid ?>">Read more...</a>

Of course, now I have two read more links in some cases. I changed it to

<?php if (!$node->readmore) {?><a href="<?php print $base_path ?>/?q=node/<?php print $nid ?>">Read more...</a><?php } ?>

and now my read more link appears only if the other read more link doesn't appear.

Thanks for the snippet, it's similar to what I have but more elegant.

My issue is that if I use this it redirects to /mysite/node/99 which is fine, but if my node has a URL set (e.g. /mysite/node/my_page) this is not displayed, and I would rather this (name) was bookmarked rather than the node/nid reference.

Do you know if a work-around for this is possible?

Thanks,
Gareth

Very late response - but personally I would use the Excerpt module which allows you to customise what you put in the Teaser

Try this:

<?php print l("<img src='asdf.jpg'>", "node/".$node->nid, array(), NULL, NULL, FALSE, TRUE); ?> 

It will translate the node/id into whatever pathalias is set. All the extra arguments passed to the link function is to enable the last flag which lets you use html. You can't use $node->path due to a permissions bug for anonymous users.

I didn't like having my Read More link be separate from the other links relating to a node.

Here's my (not so great) solution. If a content type has the teaser output overridden within contemplate, display the read more link. This isn't the best solution since someone might be generating a teaser identical to the body, but I think it covers most users. I couldn't think of a better way of doing it, since the readmore flag has to be decided early-on in the node loading process. Hopefully someone better with CCK/contemplate can figure out a more appropriate solution.

See the attached patch for contemplate-5.x-1.8.

I don't see the point in the patch, There isn't a problem that I see with the way contemplate handles the 'Read More' display. You shouldn't need to patch the module to achieve this. I would use bdornbush's solution to solve this problem. If you see a problem where contemplate is stopping the 'Read more' from appearing when there is enough content to justify it I will look into applying this patch, or orchestrating my own solution to fix it.

A read more link for contemplate, work with alias and clean url enabled or not:

<span class="readmore">» <a href="<?php print url(drupal_get_path_alias('node/'.$node->nid)); ?>">Read more</a></span>

Try this one with the variable $node_url

<span class="readmore">» <a href="<?php print $node_url;?>"><?php print t("Read more");?></a></span>