After spending a whole day searching and searching this forum and the web for a simple explanation of how to add a new field to my page I’ve come to a rather stressed conclusion that it does not exist.
After searching this forum for ‘add fields’ in the ‘Links 2.0 Customization Forum’ I do get several results but none that are clearly understandable or are complete. The FAQ section does no better.
The most frustrating point is that most of the threads end with somebody saying ‘search the forum for how to add new fields’ sending me back to square one and chasing my own tail again (arggghhh).
In a bid to save my own sanity and hopefully clear this up once and for all here is what I’m trying to do (bare in mind that I am no perl genius when replying with your answers)
I have the standard fields at the moment (title, url, description etc) allowing people to add their link and would like to add another to the list. My site is music based and I allow dj’s to add a link to a Real Audio Mix they have online. I wish to add a drop down field where the user can select the quality of their recording when submitting (32.5 Kbps, 20.7 Kbps etc)
I have made alterations to the script before and have done so successfully so I’m hoping this shouldn’t be too difficult.
One thing that might be worth mentioning is that I do not use the templates but use the site_html.pl.
If somebody could please tell me the name of the files that need to be edited (links.def, site_html.pl, etc) and perhaps show me some kind of code that can be cut and pasted into them this would be so so helpful.
My links forum is located at www.netmix.com/bpm/v4/audio
Paul @ BPM
Paul Wright
www.djsource.co.uk
After searching this forum for ‘add fields’ in the ‘Links 2.0 Customization Forum’ I do get several results but none that are clearly understandable or are complete. The FAQ section does no better.
The most frustrating point is that most of the threads end with somebody saying ‘search the forum for how to add new fields’ sending me back to square one and chasing my own tail again (arggghhh).
In a bid to save my own sanity and hopefully clear this up once and for all here is what I’m trying to do (bare in mind that I am no perl genius when replying with your answers)
I have the standard fields at the moment (title, url, description etc) allowing people to add their link and would like to add another to the list. My site is music based and I allow dj’s to add a link to a Real Audio Mix they have online. I wish to add a drop down field where the user can select the quality of their recording when submitting (32.5 Kbps, 20.7 Kbps etc)
I have made alterations to the script before and have done so successfully so I’m hoping this shouldn’t be too difficult.
One thing that might be worth mentioning is that I do not use the templates but use the site_html.pl.
If somebody could please tell me the name of the files that need to be edited (links.def, site_html.pl, etc) and perhaps show me some kind of code that can be cut and pasted into them this would be so so helpful.
My links forum is located at www.netmix.com/bpm/v4/audio
Paul @ BPM
Paul Wright
www.djsource.co.uk
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