Hi,Guys!

I have the LinkSQL 2.1.2

and i would like to add number in front of every link and ive been trying hard for almost 3 months now, and also been searching this forum for a long time,but im not able to get that done by myself, i think cause i have no idea about what files do i have to do the changes.

im kindda newbie on this so can someone be kind enough to help me out here please,can you provide a step by step instructions on how to get that done?

im trying hard but again this is totally over my head.

thanks guys.

What do you mean? On search pages, on category pages? In the database?


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i mean to make the links on search results pages be numbered instead of the default "bullet"

like:

page 1

1- link and description

2- link and description

page 2

3- link and description

4- link and description

etc..


that way when a person do a search on my site the results would be displayed like altavista or msn,etc...

Thanks for taking the time to reply my message pugdog

You'll need to do a bit of work on things.

Search no longer returns what page it was on in the search order. It returns <%span%>, or variations of it, <%next%> , <%next_span%>, etc, but not a tag with what page you are on. That is embedded in the routine that returns the globbed tag.

If you are using the <%loop%> to display results, you can add in

<%row_num%>

Which will give you the row in that loop, but it won't be passed along from page to page. Each page will start at 1 and end with maxhits.

There are a number of things that have been removed from Links, which really should not have been, and should be added back. This is one of them.

Because of the way things work, I do not think it will work to try to pass page back into the search routine. I think once it runs through the display process, extra tags are filtered out. But you could try. I was trying to pass category ID into the detail page, but it was being filtered.


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In theory this is quite simple to do as the page parameter used to build the span bar is all you need.

page * links_per_page

...will give you the start point of your current page (assuming page is greater than one)...if the page is 1 then your start position is 1.

So you'd just need to hook into the build routine and add a new tag to the link loop, this is an example (without looking at the code)...

I've posted a topic in that past in hopes of doing the same thing. I don't remember it getting much of a response. The fustrating part is I've seen numbering of LinksSQL search results and category ranking being done on another site. I just can't figure out how he did it. Besides the visual appeal I've built a cool feature I'd like to use but need to have that individual link numbering to make it work.

Anywayz if anyone has a clue on how to do this I'd love to here as well!

Later

The 'page' parameter is not passed in the templates any longer. Do a <%GT:Template:dump%> on search_results.html

You can't use a global, since that only has access to what the template parser has.

Therefore, without creating a "plugin" to "hook" into the routines, there is no way to access it short of code editing. If you are offering to write one, and post it here, I'm sure we'd all appreciate it.


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Hi,

If you want to edit your code, it's fairly easy.

It's just not portable any more.

You'd need to do it for each upgrade in Links, and I've sort of made it a point not to encourage that sort of stuff, unless someone *really* wants it.

If you really want it, take paul's suggestion, and edit your code.

It won't do anything bad when you upgrade, you'll just lose your link numbering, and have to edit your code again.

It would be *really* nice if GT added this back in, and also added in CategoryID for people who reach links via browsing (ie: clicking a link from a Category page). They also "lost" the ability to do that somewhere around the change to 2.0, which made some advertising scripts stop working right, and makes picking the right banners for detail pages and such harder than it should be.


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Hi again,

In ../Links/user/Search.pm

Find:



and add the above line into it.

Now, you can create a global using paul's code, that takes tags->{page} and figures out what the start of the numbering should be.

<%set_start_num ('page')%>

That will call the global and return a tag, such as <%page_start%>

You can then in your template use:

<%row_num + page_start%>

and you will increment your count.

If you *really* need/want this, I will write it up.


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First of all, you have to use the 'link_results_loop' and 'category_results_loop' tags as pugdog said. No need to edit your code, though....

Use this global (calculate_search_offset):

Do something like the following in the search_results.html template:

Finally, in link.html, put the following code wherever you want the number to appear:

I just added this on my page, have a look at
http://www.iyengar-yoga.com/...earch.cgi?query=yoga

Ivan
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do you mind telling me in which file or where do i have to add or try your suggestion (code)?

Thanks for your reply i really appreciated.

Hi,

I just got this working on my copy - it was the "nh" parameter I meant and not "page" - same difference. You can do it with a simple plugin without editing any core code but I'd suggest using Yogi's code.

I do really need that pugdog, and i need it badly, if you can write that up i appreciated.

Guys i just want to thank you all for the replys

its been very kind of you to take the time to help me here, thank you ,thank you thank you.

I slighly changed the global in the previous post, it works now perfectly.

Ivan
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Man I love the community! Made a post then when to lunch, and a solution was found by the time I got back. Thanks a lot for looking into this guys. I'm sure many can use this on there site as well. Now I can add some java magic.

Great job working that out via global Yogi. Just what I was looking for!

Hi

I just follow the instructions of pugdog and yogi and

now i have the search results numbered, but i must have done something wrong because the numbers are not carry over to next page when i go to next page it starts counting from 1 to 25 again and also the results are been displayed twice on same page like one list from 1 to 25 numbered and one whitout numbers but same results (same links)on same page.

also i got this error message

Error: Variable 'calculate_search_offset' is not a code reference

can tell me what am i doing wrong?

Thanks for the GREAT SUPPORT GUYS.

Make sure that the first five characters of the global are exactly

sub {

i.e.

sub<space>{

Ivan
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heres the codes on my global

sub {
my $nh = shift;
my $mh = shift;
return {search_offset => 0 } unless $nh =~ /^\d+$/;
$mh ||= $CFG->{search_maxhits};
return { search_offset => ($nh - 1) * $mh };
}

P.s. i just did the copy and past from your post to my global file.

Sorry to ask that stupid guestion,but on my templates directory theres a globals.txt file do i have to add that code there or create a new global.txt on the templates directory?

again sorry for the guestion,but im seriously a total newbie on this.

Thanks again.

You shouldn't touch the globals.txt file.

Go to 'Build -> Template Globals' and add the code there, with the proper name.

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YOGI YOU ARE A GENIOUS

How can i thank you for such great support man

theres no words enough to express my gratitude.

i just wanna say thank you again to you and to PUGDOG

..............................................................................

just a final question do you have any idea why the links are been repeated on the same page?

as i mentioned the results are showing first 25 links (numbereds now) and right below last numbered link (25) it starts showing all 25 links again but now without the numbers.

Thanks yogi.

> YOGI YOU ARE A GENIOUS

Thanks.

You probably still have <%link_results%> somewhere on the search_results.html template.

Ivan
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you're were right it was the <%link_results%> on the search_results.html that was repeating the links i just removed and now EVERYTHING WORKS PERFECTLY.

Yogi if wasnt for your help im sure i wouldnt have that done,and now not only me but the entire LinkSQL community can benefit from it, and have the numbered search results links added to theyr sites.

and for that as i said theres no words that can express our gratitude for what you just did yogi.

Thank you again for the great support yogi.

P.S. and i really meant, when i say that you are a GENIOUS, believe me you really are, keep it up man, god bless you.

Just would like to mention, that link numbering will is also available as an optional feature in my under development Xtended Link Display (XLD) plugin.

You can find info about the planned plugin features in these threads:
- [PLUGIN] Xtended Link Display plugin development news
- Webmaster33's under development or planned plugins

The plugin release date is not known at the moment, but I think it's good to know, that there will be a plugin which will give you link numbering feature you wanted.

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>> No need to edit your code, though....


Then where are you getting the 'nh' parameter from?

In the code, it's sent to the toolbox routines, but it's stripped out before the rest of the tags are returned.

It doesn't show up in the <%GT::Tempalate::dump%> dump, so how you can use them as $mh,$nh in the templates.

I *know* it works, I want to know why. If it's not showing up in the tag dump, it may not work in a future revision. If you are relying on "$IN" that is a pretty risky thing to do.


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Hi,guys!

Just a question, i just noticed that the links listed on the category pages is not numbered as the search_results.html page so my question is, its possible to make the category.html links be numbered the same way as the search_results.html page?


does the yogi's solution apply to that too?

i tryed but only shows the number 0 (zero) in front of first link.


thanks again.

You can do something similar to above.

Create a global called 'calculate_category_offset'
In your category template, place the following code:
In the link.html template, put the following code:

Ivan
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Hi,Yogi!

I just did what you sugested and now links on category.html are showing numbered, the only problem is if i go to the next page (from page 1 to page 2),the links starts counting from 1 again it doesnt carry over the couting from one page to another.

is there a way to make it carry counting like on search_results.html?

Thanks again yogi.

Can you put <%GT::Template::dump%> on the category.html template, go to the second page, and tell me what it says for 'title'?

Ivan
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Can't you use the nh param instead of regexing the title?

That's what you would think, but there is no 'nh' tag on that page, you have to parse the 'title'. Let me know if you know a better way.

Ivan
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Its not a tag - nh is an input parameter. It will be generated when you click the span bar. If it doesn't exist that means you are on page one.

my $nh = $IN->param('nh') || 1;

heres what i have for 'Title' on page two

Internet: Page 2

That's not true.

The links on the span bar point to

g=Category/Sub_Cat/more2.html;

Ivan
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Try changing:

Ivan
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My bad - I thought the category pages worked like search results.

I think the reason why they don't is that it works for both static and dynamic pages.

Ivan
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still the same Yogi

on page2 it continue to count from 1 again

I forgot to tell you that you need to use the global as

<%calculate_category_offset($title)%>

Maybe that's the problem?

Ivan
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I just changed the global from

calculate_category_offset

to

<%calculate_category_offset($title)%>


and still not working yogi

Hmmm, I would just find the template file where the <UL> is specified for the list of links and change it to <OL>... UL is an Un-numbered List and OL is an Ordered List, i.e. numbered list Should take you about 2 minutes and not require you to change any Perl. If you change the Perl code, you create a mess for yourself when it is time to upgrade to the next version...

Hi-

I use the globals/mods that Yogi provided in this thread to number both my search results and the links on the category pages, and it has worked great.

But now I have a condition in my Links loop where it will omit any links that don't have the field Active set equal to 'Yes':

<%set category_page = 1%>
<%calculate_category_offset($title)%>
<%loop links_loop%>
<%if Active = 'Yes'%>
<%include link.html%>
<%endif%>
<%endloop%>

The problem is that if, for example, the second link has the field Active set equal to 'No', then it isn't included, and then the numbering gets thrown off. So, when the second link is omitted, the numbering of the link results looks like:

1. Link Title - Description
3. Link Title - Description
4. Link Title - Description
etc.

Does anyone know if there would be a way to keep the numbering in order even some links are omitted in the loop?

--Frank

You can use the following as a quick and dirty hack:
This will work well on one page, but not across multiple pages, i.e. the offset on the second page will be wrong. If you wanted to solve this in a clean way you would need a plugin.

Ivan
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Thanks Yogi,

I'll go with your quick fix now. I appreciate it.

--Frank

For counting links on category pages
find that in build.pm

$display{total} = $numlinks = $catlink_db->hits;

And add this

##### offset #####
$display{offset} = $offset;

Now you have a tag nemd offset in yout category.html and link.html

Try now something like:
<%if search_page%><%row_num + $search_offset%>
<%else%><%row_num + $offset%>.<%endif%>

For cool pages find in build.pm this one:

return Links::SiteHTML::display ('cool', { total => $total, grand_total => $GRAND_TOTAL, link_results => $output,
title => $title, title_linked => $title_l, percent => $percent, next_span => $toolbar,
link_results_loop => \@link_loop
});

and substitute it with:

my $offset = ($opts->{nh} - 1) * $opts->{mh};
return Links::SiteHTML::display ('cool', { total => $total, grand_total => $GRAND_TOTAL, link_results => $output,
title => $title, title_linked => $title_l, percent => $percent, next_span => $toolbar,
offset => $offset,
link_results_loop => \@link_loop
});

Finally i do the new page, too. But with a real ugly php inside. ;-)
and only for not spanning pages.
Have someone done the count for the new page?
It seems there are al ot of things not be passed from the new.html to link.html

Another problem for me: I cant show the links with a loop.
Anyone a clue how to do that?

There is a tag named links, but i dont know how to pass it to the link.html