I've installed links on a new server with mods & so far everything's working accept for 2 things:

1. When a user adds a link, the urls come out all wrong & I have to edit it in the admin panel before I can add it. Adding urls in admin is fine, just on the user end it messes up. for instance instead of the http:// you get http%fs- something like that.

2. I've added the Feedback.cgi mod, but when I click on the link on the page it automatically takes me to the Feedback Error page instead of the feedback form page.

Mods I've installed in order: Last Link, Category Search, Last Link.

Any help would be much appreciated.

Hello,

Never mind about the Feedback.cgi mod, I found out what I did wrong with that one, but can someone please help me as far as figuring out why submitting links on the user end would not return the links correctly?

Here's an example of a link submitted:

We have received the following link:

Title: testing URL: http%3A%2F%2Fwww.testing.com Category: Satori Description: testing 123 Contact Name: user@netzero.net Contact Email:

user@netzero.net

I've added last link, directory search & feedback mods.

Thanx in advance for any help

in you links.def file what does the URL line look like?



Gene
"The older I get, the more I admire competence, just simple competence in any field from adultery to zoology."

URL => [2, 'alpha', 40, 125, 1, 'http://', '^http|news|mailto|ftp'],

Oh, mine is different. Should I be changing the 40 to an 80?

I'll try it & see. Thanx!

Nope didn't work. Still the same problem.

nope, the 40/80 that you refer to is just the length of the input field in the Links Admin Menu control center ( where you validate a link ).

open up your add.html file and search for NAME=URL. Close by, you should see something like VALUE="http://"


Gene
"The older I get, the more I admire competence, just simple competence in any field from adultery to zoology."

I just tried it, but that didn't work either. It just keeps going to the add success page, but with the url's garbled.

I thought it might be because of the Add.cgi, but I uploaded a new one from a newly unzipped links & that didn't seem to do anything to fix it either. The same thing happens when I try to modify a link from the user end. Don't know why since everything works fine if I add or modify from the admin panel.

open your add.html and post the line that looks like

<INPUT TYPE=text NAME=URL VALUE="http://" SIZE=50 maxlength=125>


Gene
"The older I get, the more I admire competence, just simple competence in any field from adultery to zoology."

<input type="text" input name="URL" VALUE="http://" size="30" maxlength="125">

Thanx so much for your help. I didn't have "maxlength" in there, but I did add it when I saw your post. Unfortunately it still doesn't work.

Don't know, perhaps the problem is in the redundant "input" in the code:

Leonard
aka PerlFlunkie

For some reason my last post didn't go through.

Thanx for pointing that out, I had forgotten to take the second "Input" out when I edited the line. It still didn't solve the problem though. Strange how it's only having this problem on the user end. I seem to remember something similar to this with an affilate search box. It used to do that also when I had set up the search box to automatically put the term previously searched in the links directory into the box's. Wish I could remember how that was solved.

Oh well thanx anyway for your help. I think I'm going to call it a night.

Umm....Could it be that I'm using Get instead of Post as the form method?

I tried to use post, but it wouldn't process the form, it just kept bringing me back to the add.html page with a blank form again.

Thanx for your patience with all the questions.

Liz