Hi Andrew, I just installed your hack after installing a Download hack by a different creator. I must say that your hack is vastly superior in both functionality and layout. I am very impressed and grateful for your time and effort in creating this hack. I only have one question:

I would like for users to be able to add more than one comment. I am hoping that this is an easy thing to be able to implement, and if you could tell me how to enable more than one comment I would be very grateful.

If there is no practical way to implement this, would it perhaps be easier to link the comments to an active forum thread?

Any help with this one thing is truly appreciated.

Best,
Dave

Thanks for your kind words.

The code as written stops people from having more than one comment. It's not hard to change - and I can easily add this to the 'to do' list - but I'd welcome thoughts on the following:

- Should a user also be able to provide more than one rating?
- Should her first or last or average rating be counted?
- Should she also be able to edit all her previous comments and ratings?
- The admin currently decides which user groups can add comments at all. Should the admin also decde if they can add multiple comments, or should this be the same for everything.

The current solution is 'one comment and one rating, both of which can be edited/changed'. I think the alternative would be 'multiple comments, one rating, all of which can be changed'.

By the way, I don't want to provide as fancy an editor as is used for the main VB forums - simply text edit, with BBCodes, etc, is straightfoward to maintain.

Thoughts?

Your alternative of multiple comments, one rating, all of which can be edited seems very good to me.

I am very in need of the functionality of multiple comments, so that users may correspond with each other in their comments re: the video. Almost like a mini-forum within the download section (since your download/link hack is now becoming a centerpiece of the entire forum).

So, with that in mind, my vote would be the multiple comments, one rating, all of which can be edited.

I agree with the multiple conmments and one rating idea. I don't think the user should be ablle to edit their comments or ratings. That might lead to abuse of the implamentation of it. The only ones who should be able to have those editing permissions would be those that have moderating status of the links. Just my 2 1/2 cents worth. ;)

Now that you've got things a little easier to upload, I'll give it a shot, sir. ;)

Andrew, I'm getting this nasty error now whenever I try to access the links db or the settings for it.

Just uninstall and reinstall via the VB products page. I'll check - I've probably forgotten to update something.

Will that delete the links already there?

No - it leaves the database intact

Now I'm getting this error: