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

The templates directory is simply a set of text files containing the individual templates in the .xml file. You can ignore it unless you're interested.

The local_links_install.php should certainly not have given you a blank page. Are you sure you've put the three files into your forum directory?

It should take you through a series of installation steps, starting with table creation.

I copied all 3 --- but got no installation sequence.



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

It's immediate. I barely had time to hit the "Print Screen" button to take that screenshot! :)

OK, I'll think about it this evening. There's certainly a quick workaround, but I'd like to get to the bottom of this.

Yes, this means that the install script hasn't been run, because the required tables don't exist. Just to be absolutely clear, have you pointed your browser at local_links_install.php?

If you want, create me an admin account and PM me the details.

No problem - I can manage without for a day or so. :)

joeychgo: you have to do more than just point your browser at the script local_links_install.php - you have to complete all the steps ...

Thanks for all the help andrew. works great....

question -- is there a way to increase the font sizes?

Just take a look in the links_linkbit and links_catbit templates. Change "smallfont" to "normalfont" wherever you want to have things a bit bigger (or go into your main admin CP and redefine the smallfont style - green, flashing, 26point Comic Sans perhaps?!)

lol tried the 26 in the smallfont...... no good.. made lots of things real big, but not the navbar links lol

This is a hack dealing with the links and so on ... if you want to change the size of the navbar links, then change the CSS relating to the navbar links ... check out Style Manager, Main CSS

ok, Morrus, can you try two things for me.

First, go into your admincp, go to Import and Maintenance, View PHP Info.
Tell me the version of php that you are running and tell me the two values given for the variable allow_url_fopen (should be quite close to the top of the section labelled PHP Core.

If allow_url_fopen is off, then we have the immediate answer to your problem. You need to check with your ISP to get this reconfigured as "on" in php.ini.

[edited out - this seems to have been the problem]

Okey dokey! Thanks so much for your help!

PHP version 2.3.4

allow_url_fopen is off in both columns, so it looks like we have found our problem. Weird, though - does this mean it turned itself off spontaneously, as the links were working previously.

I have a co-location server, so I'm going to need to make that php.ini change myself - is it something easy to to do?

Oh, and do you still need a copy of debug.html, now we've found this?

I didnt mean to be rude. Sorry if thats how it came out.

Mark

I like the way VB handles the display order for forums. It can be a little time consuming for large numbers of forums but it makes it very user configurable. I know in PhotoPost when you move a category up in the list it automatically renumbers all categories below it, it would be nice if it could do that, but not necessary.

I also like your idea about breaking up the lists into several pages, your program has huge potential, keep up the good work on this.

No, I don't need the debug file!

I assume you mean PHP 4.3.2 not 2.3.4!

Find the following lines in your php.ini - I've no idea where it will be on your server.

Off = not allowed, On= allowed.

Quite possibly a new version of php was installed?

Thanks, Andrew. I've made that change.

However, another problem has cropped up. When clicking on "Revalidate", browsers have now started trying to download the file rather than execute it.

I decided to try upgrading to 1.0 (I was on 0.95), and local_links_install.php does the same thing - won't open in the browser, just tried to download it. If I permit the download, the resultant text file appears to be garbage:

Any thoughts?

Ouch!

First question - does any php script now run? If not, then your php installation is corrupt. Are you sure you've only changed the one line in php.ini?

If yes, how much of the standard VB s/w works and how much of my hack works?

Yep, vBulletin is working just fine.

This was happening before I changed the php.ini file, so it's not connected to that (it started last night).

Can't really tell how well the rest of the hack is working because, with half an upgrade to 1.0 done, I can't test it! :)

Would you mind setting me up as an admin on your board and PM me the account and password, so that I can take a look?

Not to worry - got it fixed! I'll ask the guy who did it what the problem was and let you know, just in case someone else has the same issue! :)

Thanks for your help!

No problem, am interested to know what went wrong.

Here's what he said:

So that was the (second) issue. The first, as you surmised was the allow_url_fopen. Don't know if that's any help to you (or anyone else who might end up in this situation).

Morrus, the documentation on zlib compression is distinctly cryptic in this respect, so I asked for help and did not get a relevant answer. But...

[New version of local_links.php attached for testing - now removed]

Installed without problems. Great Hack!

One suggestion, when I added a link for a video, it simply opened it up. I'd rather have it bring up the prompt to open or download first. Kinda like when you right click, save as. Is this possible? Maybe through the mime type?

We have talked about this before because i had the same problem with pdf and xls files on my board but if there's a way none of us have been able to figure it out just yet.

Mark

This issue can be resolved thru correct config of your mime types ON YOUR SERVER ...

However, if this is not possible for you, the PHP file headers can be used to modify the behaviour of downloads - this would require a new class to be added to detect the filetype (based on the extension) and apply the appropriate headers to the download link based on that ...

thats over my head but ill work on it and see what i can come up with.

Thanks Natch.

Mark

I am interested in this. I run the server I'm on, so I have the capabities to make changes. Please, explain a little further :).

After some checking, I can also set my mime types on my server as well but I'm to unfamilar with how to do this so any adviced would be appreciated.

Thanks,

Mark