Like many I suspect, I use the Joomla CMS. I was struggling to find a "one click" method to incorporate the Link Assistant generated links page into my site without resorting to using iFrames or manually copying and pasting.

I finally stumbled on what I think is a fairly elegant solution:

1. Configure your links page to strip out the entire HEAD section and the BODY tags as well. You just want it to generate the html of the links themselves.
2. Generate and automatically upload the links page to your web directory, somewhere within your Joomla path.
3. Install and enable the Jumi plugin (mambot) available at:
http://www.vedeme.cz/index.php?option=com_content&task=category&sectionid=10&id=41&Itemid=123
4. Create and publish a content item within Joomla where your links page will be located
5. Within the content item, use Jumi to include the static html file generated by Link Assistant using its {jumi [path/filename.html]} syntax.
6. If needed, create a menu item pointing to your Joomla content item so visitors can get to it.
7. Browse to your Joomla content item. If everything worked correctly, you'll see your Link Assistant links page within it.

Presto!

Hope this helps some other folks do this more quickly than me.

Thanks for your wonderful tips, Comenius!

Comenius,
Interesting, I'm an Open Source fan but right now am on Vodahost using their Blue Voda website builder and while it's OK it has some severe limitations so I'm going to check out Joomla.
Thanks for the tip!

THis is exactly what I am trying to do. I am using Joomla 1.1.15. I am not finding the component mentioned here, but I was thinking that the following method might work (without adding additional components)

1) Somehow (this is what I am struggling with) output the Link Exchange Pages as RAW HTML without head tages and whatnot.
2) Allow it to upload to a directory in public
3) Use the Button type "Wrapper" to wrap the LinkAssistant inside the site template (wrapper just loads external pages into an iframe or div inside the template)

Will that work?

I wonder.

Im trying that now, I just don't know how to get link assistant to output "non-fancy" pages. Ill report back in if I have success (or if I dont)

I started a new thread on this issue. By date it is right above this one. Ill wrap up where I am going with it here, but I am hoping to draw some more attention to this issue.

The problem I am having is that I do not want to open the potential security hole of allowing my CMS to run outside scripts (thats what the Joomi component described earlier does). Furthermore I do not want to install a component for what should be a fairly easy exercise.

I made some progress today, and I want to share it with you so that we can maybe colaborate on ways to use this software with joomla in an automated fashion without a bunch of fancy add-ons.

Here's my pertinent setup:
Joomla 1.5.15
and SH404SEF

The reason I mention the SH404SEF is because it is a plugin that is complicating matters. I am unwilling to ditch it. I will ditch the Link Assistant before I ditch SH404SEF. Luckily I am well within my 30 day guarantee period.

If you are not familiar with this SH404SEF, it's main function is to rewrite URLs to friendly URLs based on the content and the parameters you set in it. An example of a url being rewritten is like this:
1) Original "real" url:
https://litterworks.com/index.php?optio ... ew=article
2) SEF url
https://litterworks.com/LitterWorks-Lea ... eo-section

It also changes the on site buttons to link to the sef urls creating some useful descriptive button text. I am not sure if it's all that helpful for SEO purposes, but it does lots of other stuff too. It makes me feel good to allow visitors to see where they are on the site using the address, and it is a crucial element of my conversion rate I believe. Anyhoo...

As I add new content, the site will get new buttons, and things might move. If I do not manage this Link section within the CMS I will also have to manage the way the template behaves in LinkAssistant. Unless I redo the template EVERYTIME, it will probably not jive with the rest of my site.

I like things to jive.

So it would be nice if LinkAssistant would output ONE very simple HTML file with standard html tags like H1 and P and STRONG wrapped in a single DIV or SPAN that I could assign an ID to. This template would have NO LINKS pointing back to the origin source domain, or if it did, it would be relative instead of absolute. I would just copy/paste that into an article. That for me would be super easy!

On my way to this effort I created a simple XHTML file, uploaded to a directory, and used it to generate the base template.

When I was looking at my preview (after I made the correct settings) it seemed PERFECT! A one page list of links with a H1 tag P tags bold tags (I woulda preferred STRONG). Only problem? When I save the "output" it still generates multiple files. The base file, and one file for each category.

Erk.

If I could just figure out what I am doing wrong, or if the LinkAssistant software would cooperate with what I am trying to do, I would be very happy and on my way... I would just paste the output to the appropriate article in Joomla, make sure SH404SEF kept it in "place" and life would be good. A simple copy paste from new generations of link pages to the Joomla CMS would be pretty dern automatic to me!

Please check the reply to your ticket - we described a way to create a new link directory so that all the links are on one page.

Thanks for your wonderful tips

Thanks for your tips...

Could you share this with the rest of us? I would like to generate a basic html file and just copy paste into a Joomla article. Can Link Assistant do this?

thanks

This post has many useful tips, thanks for sharing with community!