hyperlink name with biblatex authoryear (biblatex 1.4b)

Question

I'm new here so I'm not sure if this is the right way to express my question:

I'm using the excellent biblatex package with the author-year style and want the links in my citations to include the name of the author as well as the parentheses. The answer presented at hyperlink name with biblatex authoryear did exactly what I wanted but it seems the solution is broken with the newest biblatex version 1.4b. Can anyone help me by adapting the code to the newest biblatex version?

Answer 1

The code below hyperlinks the entire citation label for most citation commands. For \textcite the hyperlink includes the brackets around labelyear+extrayear, unless there are pre- or postnotes. In this case the link is applied only to labelyear+extrayear.

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[american]{babel}
\usepackage{csquotes}
\usepackage[style=authoryear,maxcitenames=1]{biblatex}
\usepackage{hyperref}

\renewbibmacro*{cite}{%
  \printtext[bibhyperref]{% Apply citation link to bibmacro output
    \DeclareFieldAlias{bibhyperref}{default}% Prevent nested hyperlinks
    \iffieldundef{shorthand}
      {\ifthenelse{\ifnameundef{labelname}\OR\iffieldundef{labelyear}}
         {\usebibmacro{cite:label}%
          \setunit{\addspace}}
         {\printnames{labelname}%
          \setunit{\nameyeardelim}}%
       \usebibmacro{cite:labelyear+extrayear}}
      {\usebibmacro{cite:shorthand}}}}

\DeclareCiteCommand{\textcite}
  {\boolfalse{cbx:parens}}
  {\usebibmacro{citeindex}%
   \ifboolexpr{ ( not test {\iffieldundef{prenote}} and
                  test {\ifnumequal{\value{citecount}}{1}} ) or
                ( not test {\iffieldundef{postnote}} and
                  test {\ifnumequal{\value{citecount}}{\value{citetotal}}} ) }
     {\usebibmacro{textcite}}
     {\printtext[bibhyperref]{% Apply citation link to bibmacro output
        \DeclareFieldAlias{bibhyperref}{default}% Prevent nested hyperlinks
        \usebibmacro{textcite}%
        \ifbool{cbx:parens}{\bibcloseparen\global\boolfalse{cbx:parens}}{}}}}
  {\ifbool{cbx:parens}{\bibcloseparen\global\boolfalse{cbx:parens}}{}%
   \multicitedelim}
  {\usebibmacro{textcite:postnote}}

\renewcommand{\baselinestretch}{1.2}
\setlength{\parskip}{\smallskipamount}
\setlength{\parindent}{0pt}
\addbibresource{biblatex-examples.bib}
\begin{document}
\null\vfill
\textbf{Single citations}

Filler text \parencite{aristotle:poetics}. Filler text \parencite{kant:ku} \\
Filler text \parencite[See][23]{aristotle:poetics}.
Filler text \parencite[1--10]{kant:ku}. \\
\textcite{aristotle:poetics} and \textcite{kant:ku}.
\textcite[e.g.][]{aristotle:poetics} and \textcite[10]{kant:ku}. \\
Filler text.\footcite[23]{aristotle:poetics} Filler text.\footcite[1--10]{aristotle:rhetoric}
Filler text.\footnote{\smartcite[10--15]{companion}}

\textbf{Unqualified citation lists}

\textcite{aristotle:poetics,aristotle:rhetoric} \\
\textcite[e.g.][]{aristotle:poetics,aristotle:rhetoric} \\
\textcite[10--15]{aristotle:poetics,aristotle:rhetoric} \\
\textcite[e.g.][10--15]{aristotle:poetics,aristotle:rhetoric} \\
\parencite[See][for example]{aristotle:poetics,aristotle:rhetoric}

\textbf{Qualified citation lists}

\textcites{aristotle:poetics}{aristotle:rhetoric} \\
\textcites(See)(){aristotle:poetics}[cf.][]{aristotle:rhetoric} \\
\textcites(See)()[10]{aristotle:poetics}[10]{aristotle:rhetoric} \\
\textcites(See)()[10--15]{aristotle:poetics}[cf.][10]{aristotle:rhetoric} \\
\textcites(See)()[e.g.][10--15]{aristotle:poetics}[cf.][10]{aristotle:rhetoric} \\
\parencites(See)()[10--15]{aristotle:poetics}[cf.][10]{aristotle:rhetoric}

\textbf{Mix of qualified and unqualified citation lists}

\textcites(See)()[e.g.][]{aristotle:poetics}[10]{bertram,companion} \\
\textcites[e.g.][]{aristotle:poetics,aristotle:rhetoric}[10]{companion} \\
\textcites[10]{aristotle:poetics,aristotle:rhetoric}[cf.][]{bertram} \\
\textcites[15]{aristotle:poetics}[cf.][10]{bertram,companion}
\pagebreak
\printbibliography
\end{document}

Here is an excerpt of the resulting document of the above code:

Thanks to apc for catching a bug in the \textcite command from a previous version of this solution.