As I am still in the process of setting up my Links SQL with the dynamic interface I've just come across something I consider to be strange.. I have to build the directory in order for the new page to display the latest listings.

Is there a way that I'm not aware of, that will allow all of the updating that needs to be done without building the directory? I mean, a script that goes through the motions of nph-build.cgi by updating all the necessary info and backing up the database, but not actually building any pages? It doesn't make sense to use a dynamic front end and have a whole directory of pages sitting somewhere else on the server.

Regards,
Mandi

Are you adding d=1 to the end of the page.cgi when calling it? d = dynamic

EDIT: Just realised we are in the PHP forum..are you using page.cgi or page.php?

Andy (mod)
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I'm using page.php .

Just as an example, I've added one new link for May 29. It appeared immediately as you would expect, but the number of new days was wrong - in the admin, I have "new days" set to 13 (because I was playing around with it), so the last "new" page should have been May 16, but it was still May 15. But after I built the directory, and all the flags and counts were updated, the correct last "new" page was being displayed as May 16.

I took a look at nph-build.cgi thinking that I could hack the staggered build to just do the first two stages and not continue with the rest - but it looked a bit complicated and way beyond my ability of "non" programming skills.

Regards,
Mandi

Hi,

If you are going all dynamic, you should run:

nph-build.cgi --repair

once a day to update flags, new and cool counts. This isn't done every request to speed things up.

Cheers,

Alex
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Okie dokie, I'll do that. Thanks Alex!

I didn't expect all the counts to be updated whenever a request was made, I just wanted to be able to update the counts and flags without building a directory.

Regards,
Mandi