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Links + RingLink
Hi!

I once saw a small mod on the Resources center to turn the Links db into a WebRing, giving people entering the detailed view an option to jump to the "next", "next x", "random" sites on the Ring.

I'd like to go a bit far and create a new field, called "Ring enabled?", a switch either I (admin) or the user would be able to enable/disable.

If enabled, user is REQUIRED to include an HTML code in his/her page so others can navigate thru the Ring without the need to find the site on the dabatase first.

So it's basically a mix of the RingLink project (http://www.ringlink.org/) and Links2.

Since Links is ASCII database driven, with sites conformed with unique numeric ID's, this should be sorta easy to implement.

I'm willing to pay for this mod.

Anyone?

Thanks!


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Re: Links + RingLink In reply to
I may be missing something, but it seems it's just a minor modification of jump.cgi using the 'random' feature, or a "next" feature picking the next link in sequence via ID or some other criteria.

Your ring sites would just call your modified cgi, which would return a "location" of the next site or theprevious site.

You could hard-code it, and pass fewer parameters, by having a next_ring.cgi and prev_ring.cgi, and all it would take is the current site ID as ?ID=nnnn and then return the next location.

Error checking and reciprocal links could get complicated, but at the simplest level, this is all it needs.

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Hi!

In fact, here's the wish list of the features of the ring:

- Next, Next 5
- Prev, Prev 5
- Random (already exists)
- List of participating sites
- Reliable HTML code spider (Seeking for it only on participating sites and email them to readd the code, and turn off the switch automatically).


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Re: Links + RingLink In reply to
ou want just only one ring with multi sites or multi rings?
I think I could help you do this mods.

Best regards,


Tandat

Software Developer.