External Site Disclaimer

[andrewvideouk]

Has anyone done a External Site Disclaimer on there sites? Also how did you do it and what method.

One way I can do is have a pop messege but the problem that you don't have much space to for a disclaimer.

I would like to have the External link go to a page with a External Site Disclaimer and with the External link.

Cheers.

[DIGI3]

You could pass the link as a parameter to your disclaimer page, so you'd do something like:

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<a href="{cms_selflink href='my-disclaimer-page'}?external=https://link-to-external-page" class="external-link">External Page Title</a>

Then in your disclaimer page:

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{if $smarty.get.external}
  <a href="{$smarty.get.external}" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Click to go to external site</a>
{/if}

You might want to also pass a title of the external url which you'll have to encode if you're using url parameters, but should be easy enough. You could also do session variables and other methods, but the above is probably the easiest.

[andrewvideouk]

Thank you. I like that idea.

I could do something like this. I will try it tommrow.

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<a href="{cms_selflink href='my-disclaimer-page'}?external=https://link-to-external-page?title={$extitle|escape:'url'}"External Page Title</a>

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{if $smarty.get.external}
  <a href="{$smarty.get.external}" title="{$smarty.get.extitle}" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Click to go to external site</a>
{/if}