Question

I’m banging my head to add a plain, simple link to a website on a custom column of a grid. I used the Inchoo blog to add a custom renderer for the column and it works. I though that just modifying the render and adding a tag will be enough. But my hopes were dashed, is not working.

How can be this done? Should be simple, but no way I can find how. I found lot of question/answers here in SO but about adding links to products, categories, etc, no reference to external websites, maybe I’m just using the wrong keywords in the search.

Here is the _prepareColumns() from my Grid.php

protected function _prepareColumns() {
    $blog = Mage::getModel('blogtest/blog');

    $this->addColumn('api_blog_url', array(
            'header' => $this->__('URL'),
            'align' => 'center',
            'index' => 'api_blog_url',
            'width' => 50,
            'type' => 'text',
            'renderer' =>  'Dts_Blogtest_Block_Adminhtml_Blog_Renderer_MyRender'
    ));
....

And here is my render override for that column:

<?php
class Dts_Blogtest_Block_Adminhtml_Blog_Renderer_MyRender extends Mage_Adminhtml_Block_Widget_Grid_Column_Renderer_Abstract
{
    public function render(Varien_Object $row)
    {
        $value =  $row->getData($this->getColumn()->getIndex());
//      return '<a href="http://'.$value.'>'.$value.'</a>';
        return '<span style="color:red;">'.$value.'</span>';
    }
}
?>

Answer 1

You mean the style with color red it working properly but if you uncomment the line with the <a href..> it is not?

I think you just missed a quote in the href attribute.

return '<a href="http://'.$value.'">'.$value.'</a>';