I did a small file edit to put the search in the main page, check it out, if your interested to know how i did it, ill post it up here:

http://www.offthetopic.com/forums/lo...p?action=links

Thanks. You're right.

Currently, the categories and the links are pulled out of the database in alphabetical order. There's no facility yet to change that. (There's no code yet, either, to break up the lists into pages.)

What sort options would you like to see? These haven't been priorities for me, and the risk is always that extensions introduce new bugs, but I'm happy to think about the problem.

Looks nice - just interested to know, why do you prefer having the search box visible rather than just using the drop down from the links menu bar? Or are you using a browser that doesn't handle the pop up correctly? (Or maybe I screwed up the coding for your browser :tired: - the pop up works find for me on your site with IE6 and Mozilla Firefox)

IM thinking about installing this --- but I have a few questions first.. (im a 10 day old newbie so please be gentle)

First this part in the instructions confused me:

Integrating with your board

Use these links:

local_links.php?action=links : Browse the database at top level

local_links.php?action=links&catid=nn : Browse the database starting at category nn
local_links.php?action=search : Set up a search

local_links.php?action=jump&id=nn : Anti-leech jump to link/file nn, incrementing hit counter

local_links.php?action=admin : Admin control, including links validation (normally admins only)
local_links.php?action=logjumps&start=yyyy-mm-dd&end=yyyy-mm-dd : Admin access to
see who downloaded/jumped to what
local_links.php?action=cleanjumps&start=yyyy-mm-dd&end=yyyy-mm-dd : Admin access to
clear out log of who downloaded/jumped to what

local_links.php?action=show&forum=nn : Display entries associated with forum nn
local_links.php?action=show&check=0 : Display entries that failed the latest site validation
local_links.php?action=show&check=1 : Display entries that passed the latest site validation
local_links.php?action=show&check=-1 : Display those entries that are invalid


WHat am I suppose to do here?

Second, how do I get this to add a option to the navbar?

Third, is there a way to add the banner for the link?

Again, im new, I dont know html, and am just muddling my way along... :) thanks!

I'm as gentle as they come - I also do a good job removing teeth :devious:

Basically, you only need to add one link to your navbar template to get access to this hack.

Go into the admincp, styles and templates, edit templates. Edit the navbar template.

Look for a line
Add the following line immediately afterwards
Save. that should add a new item on your navbar that takes you straight into this hack. The other items I explain in the instructions give direct links to individual functions, but you can get at these via this link.

Adding a banner - I imagine you want an image to show up? What you have to do is work out where the image is stored. If you go into a site and right click on an image, then choose Properties, it will give you the full url. Simply put a standard IMG VBulletin BBCode into your link description pointing to that url.

what about the first question?

You don't need to do anything about the first question unless you you want direct access to individual functions. The answer to the second question effectively answere the first. Try it and see!

Yep, I did a revalidation.

There are 217 links on there right now (including my own site, which is definately available, otherwise I wouldn't be able to see the links page! :) )

I've checked the links maually - they all work OK. Here are a couple of examples which are marked as unavailable, but this is applying to all 217 of the links:

http://www.enworld.org (my own site, currently marked unavailable)
http://www.americanfolklore.net/
http://www.seankreynolds.com

It was odd. I revalidated, and it suddenly marked every single one as unavailable (came up as "failed" on the revalidation page). I've attached a screenshot.

As you say, strange. The links are certainly valid.

There can be problems with bad DNS connections. When you do the revalidate, does it immediately tell you that it can't find each link, or does it sit there for quite some seconds thinking about it?

Ok, I uploaded the 3 files --

I turned my browser to local_links_install.php, then local_links.php?action=admin then local_links.php?action=links each time I got a blank white page --- ??? Now what? nothing else happened.

Also, there is a Templates directory in the zip file, what is that for?

Addemdum.... I installed the navbar link -- but when I click on it I get an error message which says :

Database error in vBulletin 3.0.0 Release Candidate 4:

Invalid SQL: SELECT * FROM local_linksadmin
mysql error: Table 'lincol14_forums.local_linksadmin' doesn't exist

mysql error number: 1146

Date: Wednesday 10th of March 2004 12:37:13 AM
Script: http://www.lincolnvscadillac.com/local_links.php?
Referer: http://www.lincolnvscadillac.com/
Username: Joeychgo
IP Address: 24.14.128.110