Drupal Views: Handle title field links differently depending on content type?

Question

I have a view that pulls in the titles from 3 different content types. One of these content types has a title that should link to an external website, the other 2 types have titles that link to nodes within the Drupal site. Is there a way I can set the Title field to handle links differently depending on what content type the title is from?

Answered thanks to Vlad below!! :)

This is the working code we are using in the views-view-fields--news--block.tpl.php template..

<?php if ($fields['type']->content == 'Event'): ?>
  <a href="<?php print $fields['path']->content; ?>"><?php print $fields['title']->content; ?></a>
<?php endif; ?>

<?php if ($fields['type']->content == 'PATF News'): ?>
  <a href="<?php print $fields['path']->content; ?>"><?php print $fields['title']->content; ?></a>
<?php endif; ?>

<?php if ($fields['type']->content == 'News Link'): ?>
//This link goes to _blank
 <a href="<?php print $fields['field_link']->content; ?>" target="_blank"><?php print $fields['title']->content; ?></a>
<?php endif; ?>

Vlad Stratulat Vlad Stratulat · Accepted Answer · 2012-07-12T22:43:18

Drupal 6

In your view settings, add Node: Type to Fields
In Basic settings group click Theme: Information and click Row style output
Copy all content from Row style output into your theme file (should be named something like views-view-fields--viewsname.tpl.php or views-view-fields--viewsname--viewsnamw.tpl.php) in your theme folder.
Modify output where you should check content type and make different output.

Drupal 7

It's pretty similar with difference that you can find Theme: Information in group Advanced and you have to add Content: Type in your Fields group.

In your views-view-fields--xxx--xxx.tpl.php file write something like:

if ($fields['type']->content == 'Page') {
  // print title linking to node
  print $fields['title']->content;
}
if ($fields['type']->content == 'News') {
  // print title linking to other website
  print 'http://example.com/'. $fields['title']->content;
}

Improved code

$link = $fields['path']->content;
$title = $fields['title']->content;
$options = array();

if ($fields['type']->content == 'News Link') {
  $link = $fields['field_link']->content;
  $options['attributes']['target'] = '_blank';
}

print l($title, $link, $options);

Drupal Views: Handle title field links differently depending on content type?

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