Releases for Link

This fixes a critical issue for sites still using PHP 5 - sorry about the broken 1.8 release.

Please make sure to review the changes in the 7.x-1.8 release and fully test the release on a non-production environment prior, just to be safe.

Contributors (2)

DamienMcKenna, tiziano.sartori

Changelog

Issues: 1 issues resolved.

This is the first non-security release since 7.x-1.5, thanks to everyone who has helped put this together and has helped over the years.

Please test this thoroughly before loading it onto production, and please let us know if there are any regressions.

Importantly. Re-read the description of the module "Link" here - https://www.drupal.org/project/link, it has been changed.

If you have problems with the new version of the module, you can always use to the previous version of the module here - https://www.drupal.org/project/link/releases/7.x-1.4

Issue #2470377 by rhclayto: Adding a class with underscores, the class gets rendered with hyphens
Issue #609560 by Boobaa: Provide token for hostname
Issue #2632728 Apply patch: link-field_link_validate_overrites_langcode-2632728.patch
Issue #2247261 by heddn, sumitmadan: URLs are not validated
Issue #2513706 by rrfegade: Spelling errors in D7
Issue #2470968: Add README.txt
Issue #2055111 by joelpittet, mikeytown2: skip over re-loading entities for tokens in link field attributes unless there's a token to process.

Changes from 6.x-2.10:

Various changes since the last release:

Issue #1321094 by aaronbauman, Digidog, jcfiala: Fixed - Allow setting a default title without setting a default URL.
Issue #885364 by dan_liip, jarodms, sockah, jcfiala, kmonty, Digidog: Fixed - strict equality operator added for better field validation.
Issue #268891 by daouverson2, quicksketch, jcfiala, krisahil, jonskulski, Digidog: Fixed - Error mysqli_real_escape_string() expects parameter 2 to be string, array given in /includes/database.mysqli.inc on line 323 - work around - case update: added in line 224.
Issue #1409980 by luisortizramos, effulgentsia, Digidog: Fixed - Validation error -Invalid URL- is not reported properly. The corresponding form_set_error() calls have been fixed.
Issue #1066328 by Bevan,dkingofpa,jcfiala:Adding absolute formatter to link field for use with views, etc.
Issue #1010850 by jcfiala, quartsize, raman2385, Bevan, eporama, das-peter, smithmilner, Digidog: Fixed MigrateFieldHandler to work with Migrate Module
bug report #399438 by mutzel:Fixed so it will display static title if optional url is blank.
bug report #462538 by tim.plunkett,dboulet:Allow User Entered Tokens setting should not be required to use tokens on the field settings page.
feature request #609560 by Boobaa:Added new token to module which returns the hostname of the link.

Issue #1318850 by Digidog: Fixed completion of special chars for function link_validate_url() in line 916

Issue #1199806 by ss81, jcfiala, Digidog: Fixed fatal error when the link URl is equal to page URL.

Issue #1307788 Feature request by nmc, tars16, Digidog: Fixed Add custom maxlength to link title text

Issue #1217396 by WilliamB,noahb,orakili,Digidog: Fixed options multiple-value & required break input/save and produces error: At least one title or URL must be entered.

Issue #1036628 by gargoyle,jcfiala,wizonesolutions,Digidog: Fixed to allow more special chars in url validation for use cases like twitter etc. (f.e.: # , ~ ).

Issue #948658 by brenk28, Dave Reid, becw, jcfiala, iMiksu, BTMash, Digidog: Fixed notice of Undefined index: title in _link_sanitize() - hopefully, finally.

Issue #1079782 by fago, klausi, drunken monkey, jcfiala, Digidog: Fixed support for hook_entity_property_info() including search API and Rules. @TODO: needs simpletests to be submitted for rc1.

Issue #1264208 by lazysoundsystem, Digidog: Fixed recursive serialization of attributes.

Issue #1218422 by Dave Reid, twistor, Digidog: Fixed tests files: strict warnings about static getInfo and parameters for setUp(), whitespace, and file structure.

feature request #1012372 by jcfiala: Tried using hook_field_instance_settings_form to allow per-instance settings. Also, re-added a bunch of old tests from 6.x
task #970392 by jcfiala: Added content_migrate_field_alter and content_migrate_instance_alter hooks to link.module to help with upgrading from D6 to D7.
bug report #1033112 by Dave Reid:Removing extra lines from link.info.
bug report #1026040 by pcambra:Updated token help to use the updated token module and token display.

Here's the first swing to update the link module to Drupal 7.x. Please have a look and report any problems you find!

support request #323879 by jcfiala:Updated link 5.x validation to use same code as 6.x branch.
bug report #436020 by jcfiala:Updated link domain names to include asia
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Basically, I copied the link validation improvements that have been made to the 6.x-2.x branch, and put them in the 5.x branch.

Bug Report #587078 by BenStallings: $item['attributes'] was not being converted to an empty array for view-related displays of links without attributes.

security by dropcube: fixes security problem for Separate title and URL formatter. SA-CONTRIB-2009-096 - Link - Cross Site Scripting
#349115 by smitty: Print entire form element in theme. Make Link compatible with Nodeprofile Privacy.

Re-branched the project to DRUPAL-6--2 to match convention.
support request #384278: Update warning (link module can not be updated) by jcfiala: Added noop link_update_1() to allow people with really old sites to update without schema errors.

The only changes from BETA1 to BETA2 here are work to get the module to properly install on older sites.

support request #384278 by jcfiala: Added noop link_update_1() to allow people with really old sites to update without schema errors.
bug report #384278 by Rob Loach,BWPanda Removed uneeded hook_update_last_removed() call.

This update primarily fixes an API update to Views2 in Drupal 6, but also contains a few minor fixes for the Drupal 5 version.

This update primarily fixes an API update to Views2. Note that you must also update to the latest version of Views (2.0 RC3 or later) when updating to this version of Link.

This updated version of link module fixes a single critical bug in the 2.3 version that prevented link module from operating correcting with versions of mySQL prior to mySQL 5.0.3. Upgrading is highly recommended.

Bug Fixes:
#283398: URL Length in MySQL 4

A minor release to correct several bugs. Upgrading is encouraged for all users to ensure compatibility with the latest versions of Views and CCK.

This version of link.module corrects several bugs and adds a few small functionality increases. For Drupal 6, this is the first complete release, now including Views support.

Fixes a few things in the Drupal 6 version of link module:

- Empty link fields show as the site's URL - http://drupal.org/node/243479
- Labels printed out in single value link fields.
- Required URL and title fields are now marked as such.

Fixed bad function call that prevented links from being displayed.

Drupal 6 development version of Link module. Please use this before reporting bugs or requesting features, as they may already be fixed or added (respectively). Using this release is not recommended on live sites and may be unstable.

Lots of features in this release!