Hi
Just wonder if anyone is working on the following plug ins:
1- editors functions improvements such as, pick up category to edit, list of links, links waiting to be validated.....
2- alphabet listing of link plug in.
3- Auto dublicate link checking upon submission, it will be pretty to have a confirmation page (where user can edit his link entries before final submssion) and will tell him if his link is already in the database.
Or if such a plug in will flag the Dublicate link for the adminstrator as dublicate.
4- Three levels of new graphics I know it is already here but there is a problems with the current one. (will generate new50.gif, new31.gif....).
5- Mylinks or portal.cgi for links NG
6- Review it Plug in (we should ask pugdog).
7- Multiple category add, where visitor can suggest his link to up to X category at the same time where X is controled by editor or admintrator.
8- Return search logo: that is really something that was neve done before. simply it is a mod/plug in that will let outer sites use your database to search and in return the searched will see the site he came from logo or link back on top of the search results page.
I think that can be done by adding <%if outer-search statement%> to the search results page, and adding hidden fields to the search html (outer-site name or logo, outer-site url) any ideas guys?
I think a lot of people can use such plug ins.
I think that is it for now

Thanks
AARON

>> 1- editors functions improvements such as, pick up category to edit,
>> list of links, links waiting to be validated.....

I had this in 1.13, I haven't had time to see how much of it has been added to 2.0.3 or how hard it would be to add that in.

>> 2- alphabet listing of link plug in.

Already done.

>> 3- Auto dublicate link checking upon submission, it will be pretty to have
>> a confirmation page (where user can edit his link entries before final
>> submssion) and will tell him if his link is already in the database.
>> Or if such a plug in will flag the Dublicate link for the adminstrator as
>> dublicate.

This is something I've thought about, but it shouldn't be too hard to do. Just intercept the 'add' call, and do a "query" on the URL first. If it comes up, present both links to the user, if not, just add it.


>> 4- Three levels of new graphics I know it is already here but there is a
>> problems with the current one. (will generate new50.gif, new31.gif....).

I haven't seen that, but it should be minor to fix. The current version might have fixed that already. Problem is, if you have set your "length of time to be new" greater than the number of graphics you have, you will hit this situation no matter what, unless you use a default "OlderThan14" graphic.

>> 5- Mylinks or portal.cgi for links NG

Someone is working on that.

>> 6- Review it Plug in (we should ask pugdog).

Alex has that under development. I'm waiting for his to come out, then hack on it if necessary.

>> 7- Multiple category add, where visitor can suggest his link to up to X
>> category at the same time where X is controled by editor or admintrator.

In 2.0.x versions this is quite possible. You'd need to add a second select field to the add form, (and field to the links record) then parse out the suggested categories in the Admin. It might be something Alex will add in, since he's got a really good understanding of the Admin.

>> 8- Return search logo:

Not a clue.... but the spider will do a secondary search if the search of the links database comes up empty. Not what you are asking, but it might be the first step to it.

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<<4- Three levels of new graphics I know it is already here <<but there is a problems with the current one. (will <<generate new50.gif, new31.gif....).

I ran in this problem what you have to do is set your new cut at setup to 14 as pugdog said .then you have to run repair tables and that will make it work perfectly.

Regards
Abd

http://www.idleb.com

Hi,

I was investigating why my Days_Old mod was causing problems for me, and I think I found why.

Some of my link and categories were saying they were new, when infact they were older than the 14 day limit I had set.

I just did a "Rebuild Tables" and it fixed it.
I also think that the GT::Date module had some problems in it that were fixed for the 2.03 version.

Robert Blackstone
Webmaster of Scato Search
http://www.scato.com

i'm using 2.03 and it's built this way. how can i make it random listing of links?

about the recommned it plugin for linksql. why should i use it? i thought the old one for links2 should work. it's an outside script. or am i missing something?

Take a look at this thread. Alex hasn't come back to me yet from my last post, so I can't answer it for you. I might email him directly and see what comes of it.

http://www.gossamer-threads.com/perl/forum/showflat.pl?Cat=&Board=LSQLNG&Number=129557&page=1&view=collapsed&sb=5

Regan.

Hi

As a follow up:

>>>1- editors functions
see : http://www.idleb.com/cgi-bin/links/user.cgi?signup_form=1
For a sign up form, All what I need is a way to use <%category%> at Sign_up.html - Which pugdog said it is ytoo hard, but works very good as is.
>>>2- alphabet listing of link plug in. I do not think the one sang2001 means is the one built in 2.03..!
>>>3- Auto dublicate link checking upon submission.
I think Alex said he is working on adding this feature a while ago _even before _ 2.01 :)...
>>>4- Three levels of new graphics .
already in a working fine
>>>5- Mylinks or portal.cgi .
as pugdog said someone is working on it
>>>6- Review it Plug in (we should ask Alex).
>>>7- Multiple category add..
no clue but it will be good
8- Return search logo: got it working on my site see:
http://gossamer-threads.com/perl/forum/showflat.pl?Cat=&Board=LSQLPlg&Number=131419&page=0&view=collapsed&sb=5

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Personally i wanna see a way for users to suggest a category.

Regards
Abd

http://www.idleb.com

This can be accomplished via one of the following methods:

1) Add a new FORM field called SuggestCat, which should not go into the Links table, but would be emailed to you. Add the field in your add and modify template files. Then in the sub send_email routine in the add.cgi, add the field to the mail that is sent to the admin.

2) Copy the add.cgi and rather than adding the record into the Validate table, have it added to another table called Validate_Category, which should be the same as the Validate table, but you would add the appropriate columns used in the CatLinks table.

3) Create a "feedback" email form that contains the NAME of category to suggest. Then create forms that would allow people to "submit" category names.

I have the last option working in my directory, using LINKS SQL v.1.13....

http://vlib.anthrotech.com/Applied_Anthropology/

http://vlib.anthrotech.com/bin/addcat.cgi?ID=1

Regards,

Eliot Lee

I have the third one working on my site for a while..
I was thinking about a databse based one..
I think I will try the second option.

thanks

Regards
Abd

http://www.idleb.com