rajani wrote:
I respectfully disagree.
(how's that for not throwing stones?)
For you these 4 additions would greatly increase the functionality of the script. For me, they would do little and would perhaps get in my way.
I do not require password protection on modify, and many of us do not. With all due respect to Bobsie (and indeed a great deal is due) I don't like his password protection mod one bit. It would mean my users had to type more before they could modify their resource rather than less, and I'm interested in making less work for the end-user. That's much more important to me than password protection.
I have never had a situation in which I needed URL-blocking or banning, and such a feature would be of no use to me. I have no use for a banner script, and such a feature would beef up the script with no benefit to me (or to many users!). And although I've installed several copies of links, I've only had use for the Multiple Category mod in one of them. Most people don't use that mod. On the scripts where I don't need it, it would add a large block of useless clutter to the admin panel.
You see, the thing is that what makes great added functionality in your project may be useless or even a burden to others. Which is why everyone here keeps saying that the great thing about the script is that it's extensible and customizable to fit different purposes. Your purposes for this script are vastly different from mine. The additions you see as essential are rather useless to me.
You sound as if you're telling some universal truth... "The script NEEDS such-and-such." It's not universal.
Phoenix
[This message has been edited by phoenix (edited June 26, 1999).]
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This four BASIC functions needs to be in the routines of Links.I respectfully disagree.
(how's that for not throwing stones?) For you these 4 additions would greatly increase the functionality of the script. For me, they would do little and would perhaps get in my way.
I do not require password protection on modify, and many of us do not. With all due respect to Bobsie (and indeed a great deal is due) I don't like his password protection mod one bit. It would mean my users had to type more before they could modify their resource rather than less, and I'm interested in making less work for the end-user. That's much more important to me than password protection.
I have never had a situation in which I needed URL-blocking or banning, and such a feature would be of no use to me. I have no use for a banner script, and such a feature would beef up the script with no benefit to me (or to many users!). And although I've installed several copies of links, I've only had use for the Multiple Category mod in one of them. Most people don't use that mod. On the scripts where I don't need it, it would add a large block of useless clutter to the admin panel.
You see, the thing is that what makes great added functionality in your project may be useless or even a burden to others. Which is why everyone here keeps saying that the great thing about the script is that it's extensible and customizable to fit different purposes. Your purposes for this script are vastly different from mine. The additions you see as essential are rather useless to me.
You sound as if you're telling some universal truth... "The script NEEDS such-and-such." It's not universal.
Phoenix
[This message has been edited by phoenix (edited June 26, 1999).]
