What you wants defeats the point of this plugin. This is *supposed* to be straight forward, simple, and AUTOMATED.
I can see the potential for another plugin called "DMOZ Updater" for instance, which would in essence be a spider, that simply took it's data from the DMOZ dump.
What you are describing, is the behaviour of the original GT spider. The second version was sort of different, and current versions are too difficult to set up (they need sample import filters, for a variety of things).
Actually, I wish I could locate the original GT Spider tar, as it had some really neat code in it that was sort of abandoned in later versions.
The *PROBLEM* with what you want to do, is that moving a link from one category to another, can either screw things up -- ie: duplicate insertions, or create *massive* problems in "suggesting" where the link should go.
Some sites will want to have unique URL's and SINGLE categories, some Unique URLS and multiple categories, and some will allow multiple URL's in different categories.
It depends on if the site is CATEGORY or LINK driven.
ie: if searches are #1, unique URL's are more valid, if the site is mostly browsed, proper categorization is more important.
DMOZ provides only 3 pieces of data in their dump:
Category
Title
Description
Creating such a list for matched/itemized import is not trivial, but not hard.
the problem is it's *NOT* scalable. This is why the original plugin was automated. On larger sites, the amount of comparasons would be daunting, and people would beg for automation. The automatiion is built in, and you are begging for manual system!
What size sites are you talking about ?? Over 300 links, starts to be a pain, over 1000 links starts to be a real pain, and 10,000 links is flat out unmanagable.
You are asking to page through several thousand links, when 90% of the posts on this sort of item complain about having to page through a few dozen, or a few hundred.
I'm thinking about this, but I still don't see the complete functionality, since especially for larger sites, unless existing+unchanged links are completely ignored, there is a data logging/pigging problem that starts to get insurmountable. It's sort of triplicating data -- one in DMOZ, one in your directory, now one in the "to be imported" area. This so violates database normalization, it's giving me hives <G>
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I can see the potential for another plugin called "DMOZ Updater" for instance, which would in essence be a spider, that simply took it's data from the DMOZ dump.
What you are describing, is the behaviour of the original GT spider. The second version was sort of different, and current versions are too difficult to set up (they need sample import filters, for a variety of things).
Actually, I wish I could locate the original GT Spider tar, as it had some really neat code in it that was sort of abandoned in later versions.
The *PROBLEM* with what you want to do, is that moving a link from one category to another, can either screw things up -- ie: duplicate insertions, or create *massive* problems in "suggesting" where the link should go.
Some sites will want to have unique URL's and SINGLE categories, some Unique URLS and multiple categories, and some will allow multiple URL's in different categories.
It depends on if the site is CATEGORY or LINK driven.
ie: if searches are #1, unique URL's are more valid, if the site is mostly browsed, proper categorization is more important.
DMOZ provides only 3 pieces of data in their dump:
Category
Title
Description
Creating such a list for matched/itemized import is not trivial, but not hard.
the problem is it's *NOT* scalable. This is why the original plugin was automated. On larger sites, the amount of comparasons would be daunting, and people would beg for automation. The automatiion is built in, and you are begging for manual system!
What size sites are you talking about ?? Over 300 links, starts to be a pain, over 1000 links starts to be a real pain, and 10,000 links is flat out unmanagable.
You are asking to page through several thousand links, when 90% of the posts on this sort of item complain about having to page through a few dozen, or a few hundred.
I'm thinking about this, but I still don't see the complete functionality, since especially for larger sites, unless existing+unchanged links are completely ignored, there is a data logging/pigging problem that starts to get insurmountable. It's sort of triplicating data -- one in DMOZ, one in your directory, now one in the "to be imported" area. This so violates database normalization, it's giving me hives <G>
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Please leave a PM here.
