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[New Plugin] Check_Empty_Cats

Aug 27, 2002, 9:38 AM
Andy
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[New Plugin] Check_Empty_Cats
Quite a basic plugin, but someone wanted me to write it for them, so here we go Wink

Basically, you just define how many links you want to be in a category before it is classed as 'ready'....for example, setting the user option to 10, will cause any categories that have 9 or less, to be reported when the checker is run.

I've tested it on 120k link (15k categories)..so I don't envisage there being any problems). Well, enjoy... Smile

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Aug 27, 2002, 9:41 AM
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Hmm could I ask what it would be used for?

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Aug 27, 2002, 9:43 AM
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Aug 27, 2002, 9:43 AM
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Literally, just to check what categories have no links in, or less than 'x' amount of links. Like I said, its notging amazing, but seeing as I wrote it (free for someone)...I thought I would make it available to everyone else Smile

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Aug 27, 2002, 9:13 PM
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Aug 27, 2002, 9:13 PM
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Sounds nice..

I will p[lay around with..

It will help with sites on shared servers so unneeded pages will not be built..

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If that can be extended to where that category index page will not be build but still be available through add.cgi?
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Aug 28, 2002, 2:31 AM
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It will help with sites on shared servers so unneeded pages will not be built..
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How?....you'll still have to delete them manually so you may as well have just set up a script via cron:

$DB->table('Category')->delete( GT::SQL::Condition->new('Number_of_Links', '<', $some_number) );

That will also handle foreign key deletions.

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Aug 28, 2002, 3:56 AM
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Aug 28, 2002, 3:56 AM
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You got me there..

Let say they do not have cron on their server Tongue

(hey let's just say that this script is of some use to someone out there paul Wink )
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Aug 28, 2002, 4:01 AM
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Let say they do not have cron on their server
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So then what is this plugin going to do for you if you can't act upon what it tells you? (btw you don't need to cron, you could set up and admin link if you wanted)

I'm only interested in how you are going to use it, I'm not criticizing the plugin, although I do really think Andy should concentrate on bigger plugins.

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Aug 28, 2002, 4:27 AM
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Aug 28, 2002, 4:27 AM
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As I said Paul, the aim of this plugin (at least for the person I wrote it for), is to check which categories have less than a certain number of links in....if they do, then it will be shown in the report, and the admin can report on it appropriatly, most likely by putting their efforts into finding links for those particular category...

Hope that clears things up a little Tongue

BTW Paul...if you have any ideas on bigger plugins I could work on, I'm all ears Smile

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