How do I remove the following fields as I don't need them nor do I want to see them shown in the Validate/Modify pages(or any other pages):
Hits, isNew, isPopular, Rating, Votes & ReceiveMail
I am busy on a pen-pals mod for Links2 with my friend Sandy. Please note that we are not very good at CGI yet so if you can help, please give us detailed comments )

You would remove them from links.def.

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Lavon Russell
LookHard! Search
http://lh.hypermart.net
webmaster@lh.hypermart.net

What kind of mod is a pen-pals mod? I am curious.... =)

 
I would leave them alone, since parts of links use them, and you'd have to make other changes to get rid of them properly. If you don't use them, they don't take up any real space, and the _USERS_ never see them, only the ADMIN.

If you don't want 'hits' to show to your users, just remove the <%hits%> from all your templates, same with <%votes%> and <%ratings%>.

Theses values are how Links tracks some things internally. If you ignore them, so does Links, but it's better to leave them there, since the code that uses them is pretty built-in to links.

Hi Guys. Thanks for the help so far. Is there
a way to hide them in the admin page?

Not without a lot of modification. The easiest method is to delete those fields out of your links.def file.

Then in your nph-build.cgi file, you can use the # character in front of the routines for building the hits, voting, ratings, and receive email. Using the # character (rem) is better than deleting out routines within scripts because if you want to use them at a later time, then you can just delete the # characters.

Hope this helps.

Regards,

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Eliot Lee
Founder and Editor
Anthro TECH, L.L.C
http://www.anthrotech.com/
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http://www.coco.cc.az.us/
Web Technology
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or for the people that don't care.. just change the fields length to -1 and then it will be hidden.. hehe

but it will still apear in the database..

jerry