I have read here that links 2 will only handle about 5000 links. Why could not the program be modified to write each category to a different data base? That way it should handle 5000 links per category.

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Uh..that is not the solution.

The only solution is LINKS SQL.

Best of luck.

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thats not a bad idea, to write the links to each category. This would make it so links2 can have more then 5000links. This would make it faster to build, because it would only have to build the categories with new links.

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One of the main problems is the search function.

How can you make one search.cgi search through multiple database files ?

I can't figure out how this post is dated may 6th I posted this about a week ago or more. Maybe a grep search could search all databases or you could have multiple search.cgi's and have a drop down category list to launch each script to search each data base. Anaconda has a script redirect search box to do this which they give away.

I was thinking about to limit max. number of links. I made a quick calculation:
1 record in my db has maximum 700 character.
Let's suppose my service provider allows me to use max. 5 Mb space.
I should limit the size of the DB to about 3.5 Mb, to have space for the rest of the site. This 3.5 Mb allows me to have max. 5000 links.
That's why I would need this feature.
The overall links number should check in add.cgi, so it won't allow to add new links if there are 5000 links already.
I use expire links mod, so new links places are getting free every day

I think this mod would be very useful.

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Why can't you use cookies, first it seaches on key words, going into each db of categories and saving each search it finds as a category (cookie) then retrieves it and dispalys the information? I know you can make it write to each category db, someone would have to play around on getting the search portion to work, or modify the script to have unlimited links. so it only updates whats new and adds those links to the last page of each category. I have no clue what im saing, but i think it sound good.

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Not plausible.

1) Servers have restrictions on cookie sizes and the number of cookies you can store.

2) Also this would not resolve the problem of large database files.

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