Is there a way to turn the link validation off? http://www.shoutcast.com shows up as unavailable even though it is available. I think a report broken link type system would work better if the validation code cant be tweaked.

Each time someone reports this problem, I test the link they quote on my own installation and it works fine. This is making it rather hard to get to the bottom of the problem!!

It's straightforward to tweak the links_linkbit template to show all links regardless of whether they test ok or not.

for example, find the sequence
and replace with

This may fix your problem.

Thanks a ton. Is there any information I can give that will help narrow down this problem? I run a fairly low population site on a server that so far has seemed to have all the right things already installed by default.

How does your link validation work? Is it a ping type thing or some other form of mass packet sending that may be blocked by some servers?

I'll have to dig a little to find out what I need to know. The link validation uses the facilities built into PHP to open web pages/files over an http connection. It seems to work ok on the servers I maintain but a couple of you have reported difficulties so I need to investigate.

You should check (although this was checked automatically when you installed the hack) that your server has the php variable allow_url_fopen set to 1 (you can find this out by going into your admincp, down at the bottom Import and Maintenance, then View PHP Info.

allow_url_fopen On On

both my master and local values for that are set to on. maybe its timing out on slower to load sites?

Is here anybudy to write this Hack in german because this is great for my forums :rolleyes: ? :nervous:

First I need to "phrase" the hack - to use the VB jargon, i.e. place all the text into the phrase database - then it will be a straightforward task to translate.

Thanks, but this is to heavy for me, because my english is bad.
Still i wait a little bit time to hope for a German version.

Thanks,

It may have been mentioned before? But it would seem that the only thing lacking would be to show how many links are in a cat/subcat and something to indicate that a cat/subcat has "new" links. Maybe total links (number) on the main links page.

I agree - and I think this may happen quite soon :devious: - but tell me - do you want the checks/counts to go right the way through nested subcategories (tricky) or just one level down (easy)