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I've started updating the FAQ again, due to the delays in the release of the next version, and the increasingly obvious fact that many people will delay their upgrades for some time.

I've also installed the user/password/editor mod on the site, and it should be working. There are dozens -- literally -- logic areas and bugs that have to be worked out. Once you make any change to the add, modify, maintain or user cgi's you have to start making reciprocal changes all over the place.

Anyway, this is not an easy mod.

It's far from actually being up to what I would call release code.

But, if you'd like to help out with the site and add resources, you will have a chance to try to user logon, registration, and user-modify features.

There are two formats you can use for adding links from the forum here.

One is using the full url .../showflat.pl?.... etc. that will display an entire thread when a user clicks on it.

The other is the _short_ format, that will display only the single message in threaded format, but will highlight a single message in a thread when all the "meat" is in that area. that url is in the format http://gossamer-threads.com/p/<message#>

There are plenty of cosmetic problems, such as mis-matched templates, and some missing includes and tags, but the guts should be working. I also fixed the mis-behaving search links (somehow those got screwed up during one of the backups.)

If you have a reference site on the web that has SQL, perl or other helpful information for running a Links site, let me know. This site is _not_ for the non-SQL version of links. Really. There is plenty of support for that program, and by now most of it's been beaten to death.

So, anything about object perl, mod perl, SQL, Links SQL, Apache, etc is fair game.

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FAQ: http://www.postcards.com/FAQ/LinkSQL/

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Very nice, Robert...I like how you have included the relevant version number...it helps to differentiate between the different BETA, ALPHA, and STABLE versions.

Thanks.

Regards,

Eliot Lee

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I've made it even easier to enter specific messages from the forum into the FAQ. When you log on, you'll see the URL field already filled in with:

http://gossamer-threads.com/p/

All you need to do is mouse-over the 'reply' button on the message you want to feature, and copy that message number after the p/

When clicked, that message will be shown, with the rest of the thread collapsed below it. Effective for linking to the 'meat' of a thread.

As for the Version, I check that field (which is why it's not a drop down box) and will edit it for the correct version of the software. Currently, I think, I use 1.11, 1.0, and All as flags. Using Stable and Beta is probably a good idea with the next version, in addition to the release number. That way if a mod is something that will probably continue to work, it would be a Stable, and if it's something that may change in the next release (like a bug fix or logic change) it would be Beta.

If anyone has an additional suggestion, let me know... but I really added that field so people could quickly tell if their version was up-to-date enough to use that mod/bug fix.


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FAQ: http://www.postcards.com/FAQ/LinkSQL/