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Is GLinks a good way to get an "article" page up, ? I would like for users to be able to post "articles", let others read said articles, and let me have a few of them featured on the home page.. I have looked here, but have not found much talk of the capabilities of this package to do it. WOuld be nice to be able to have articles w/ pictures etc. in them... Is this something that would only be supported w/ more $$$ sucking plugins? (running a non-$$$ generating site, so any lower cost solutions known of would also be appreciated since I will probably never earn back the $ i'm spending on this project!)

Basicly not really looking for a "link server" , but a server to organize information and also act as a front end to my just licensed G-forums. Wink Is this it?

Nate

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Hi,

Yes, Links can definitely be used as an article database. Here's two examples:

http://www.ameinfo.com/news/
http://www.pressbox.co.uk/

and no other plugins are required. From the admin panel, you can create image fields that you can use to upload image attachments.

Hope that helps,

Alex
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ok, is that functionallity only in the Glinks, or does the Links 2.0 also support that.... What is the big benifit of getting the $450 Glinks over the less expensive Links 2.0? SOrry if asked before, but not found alot of info on that either , might just be stupid Wink

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Hi,

Both of those are from Gossamer Links. Gossamer Links contains numerous new features and is the one we actively developed. It also stores all the resources in an SQL database and can scale much more then Links 2.0.

Cheers,

Alex
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I use GLinks for articles in addition to a normal database.

One category/subcategories is set aside for the articles and uses different templates for both the category listings and detailed pages.

A brief description of 'featured' articles is then pulled into every page by using an <%ifFeature%> tag.

The articles are displayed using the detailed.html template, pulling in a different sub-template from the normal links.
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As I'm also interested in this, it sounds pretty cool. Any live site or demo?

Regards.

UnReal Network
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Re: [deadroot] Articles In reply to
Please check out:

http://2muslims.com/...terature/index.shtml

We have been using glinks to publish articles/books for over a year now.
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