In administration, i selected a new site to be "Popular", yet when i do a search for this site, it still comes up as a normal listing.. Am i doing something wrong?

Please explain eactly how the "Popular" option works.. What i am working to do is be able to add a "HOT!" graphic next to any site i choose.. Is this possible?

Jeff

hi conan,

look this in the links.cfg

# Build Options
# --------------------------------------------------------
# Setting for popular cutoff, can either be a percent (i.e. top 3%), or
# a fixed value (i.e. top 10). Enter 0.03 or 10 respectively.
$db_popular_cutoff = 10; # Top 3%

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ciao
Nicky
mse.nicky.net

But what is it based on? Hits or votes?

Whats the easiest way, or easiest mod for me to do what im asking above?

Please refer this cgi dummy..

well make a new field called isHot, and do all the stuff needed to make a field, as you should know already. Make it so its a pull down menu with the variables Yes and No, then if you don't have it, get the Enhanced Template.pm in the resource center.
then

in link.html put this
<%if isHot eq 'Yes'%>
<img src="/images/hot.gif">
<%endif%>

[This message has been edited by Bmxer (edited November 21, 1999).]

Bmxer guy.. I have alot of respect for ya... Seen alot of your scripts throughout the site, and have already used a couple.. thanks..


Anyways (enuff ass kissing),,

Bare with this semi-literate cgi person..
What are the required things to create my fields.. Anything more than what was mentioned above? Bare with me, as i just want to get this right, and dont want to be playing guessing games..

Really appreciate the help..

Ok, i have the ENHANCED TEMPLATES

installed..in link.html i put this (pointing to path of my images)

<%if isHot eq 'Yes'%>
<img src="/images/hot.gif">
<%endif%>

Now what?

Popular (also known as cool) is based on hits. If you want to manually change it, I think you would have to adjust the number of hits, as the Yes|No is merely a flag in the database.

There are mods to include an editor's pick and/or review, which would accomplish what you want.

Dan

 


[This message has been edited by Conan (edited November 21, 1999).]