Remove top link by title not by url in xml

Question

I've got 2 top links with the same url. I need to remove one of them on a specific handle.

Removing by url will exclude both of them.

Is there a xml solution to this? Like removing by title.

Thanks!

Example of a link:

<action method="addLink" translate="label title">
    <label>Account</label>
    <url helper="customer/getAccountUrl"/>
    <title>Account</title>
    <prepare/>
    <urlParams/>
    <position>1</position>
</action>

Answer 1

This is not supported out of the box.
The top links are rendered by the block Mage_Page_Block_Template_Links that allow you to remove a link only by url or by block.
An option would be to make your link be rendered by a block and then use removeLinkBlock.
See how to add a block in the checkout.xml layout file.
Or you can rewrite the Mage_Page_Block_Template_Links and create a new method called removeLinkByTitle

public function removeLinkByTitle($title)
{
    foreach ($this->_links as $k => $v) {
        if ($v->getTitle() == $title) {
            unset($this->_links[$k]);
        }
    }
    return $this;
}

and you can use that similar to removeLinkByUrl

Answer 2

There is no native way to remove the link by title. But you can achieve this by rewrite the class Mage_Page_Block_Template_Links.

And add the below function

public function removeLinkByTitle($title)
{
    foreach ($this->_links as $k => $v) {
        if ($v->getTitle() == $title) {
            unset($this->_links[$k]);
        }
    }
    return $this;
}

Now you can remove the link by title with below code.

<reference name="top.links">
    <action method="removeLinkByTitle"><title>Account</title></action>
</reference>

Answer 3

Instead of extending the core like the other answers, just remove them both and re-add the one you'd like to stay. For example if you've two links with the customer/getAccountUrl url:

<reference name="top.links"> 
    <action method="removeLinkByUrl">
        <url helper="customer/getAccountUrl" />
    </action>
    <action method="addLink" translate="label title">
        <label>Account</label>
        <url helper="customer/getAccountUrl"/>
        <title>Account</title>
        <prepare/>
        <urlParams/>
        <position>1</position>
    </action>
</reference>