Hide a link conditional by its url

How bout righting into the script that makes it visible or invisible a new robot.txt? As long as its a respectible search engine if it says dont search it wont search.

Andy,

I have a coder building a similar thing as we speak. StickyMail me in a week or so if you haven't found an alternative solution by then and I'll send you the code.

What I'm having built is something that logically works like this:-

1. If the link is to my domain, then echo out the straight link including any requested anchor text, e.g.:-

<a href="http://trillians/widgets.html">Trillian's Widgets</a>

Get's echoed out as it is.

2. If the link is not on one of my domains then echo out the link preceeeded with "http://mydomain/redirect.php?url=" and leave the rest (so anchor text is the same), eg:-

<a href="http://someone-else/widgets.html">A N Other's Widgets</a>

gets echoed out as:-

<a href="http://trilian/redirect.php?url=http://someone-else/widgets.html">A N Other's Widgets</a>

This is for a forum (tracking outbounds), but it would work for what you need to do, you would just need to edit it to echo out nothing if the URL matches the URL that you want to supress.

TJ

PS Welcome to Webmasterworld!

Thanks TJ
Looks like it's exactly what I need. As soon as it's sorted I'd love to check out the code if possible.
Thankyou very much.
Peace,
Andy

This is what I did.
In any template I want to hide a specific link (in this case "Toolkit")I put the following at the top of the page:

<?php $hidePage="Toolkit";?>

I use the following css:

#hidden {display: none;}

Then in the nav:

<div<?php if ($hidePage=="$cat_name$")
echo " id=\"hidden\"";?>><a href="$url_index$">$cat_name$</a></div>

$cat_name$ is the placeholder in my CMS that dynamically populates the navigation. The PHP code will find the item "Toolkit" and wrap it with the css #hidden class.

looks like that'll work well enough - except you might want to use single quotes, double quotes could put php into a parsing mode where it wants to get a variable with the name $cat_name$ (dunno, might not with that $ at the end, but single quotes would be safer, not to mention faster) -- you sure you want to hide it though with css? Maybe se's get suspicious? You can just not output it in the first place.

<?php
if($hidepage <> '$cat_name$') echo '<a href="$url_index$">$cat_name$</a>';
?>

A second thought - this depends on how your templating thingie works, if it buffers the output and then replacing or replacing as it goes - if it's replacing as it goes, it'd probably be more like

<?php
if($hidepage <> $cat_name$) echo '<a href="'.$url_index.'">'.$cat_name.'</a>';
?>