Andrew, I have a suggestion -

Many sites do recripocal links. Ettiquite is when requesting a link, you place the other site's link first, then request.

What I have always found troublesome is verifying that the recripocal link actually gets placed -

Is there a way you can incorporate a way to remind the site admin that they are waiting on a link so they know to check and make sure a link got placed?

I'll have a look - may take a while as I'm going to be travelling soon,

Bad timing, possibly. Something to think about, perhaps, while you are away.
How about a 'your favourites' category?
A category which is created by default upon installation with an admin option to use it or not. It's display order is at the top by default. (Which as an aside makes me think that maybe categories should have a display order also).
If enabled, every link in the database has an 'add to favourites' link which adds that link to the favourites list for that member. That link is then displayed in the 'your favourites' category.
Each link displayed in the 'your favourites' category has a 'remove from favourites' link against it for obvious reasons.

I thought that maybe this functionality is duplicating your browser favourites list, but the advantage in using the forum links database is that we validate the links regularly and maintain each user's list irrespective of which browser they use (some use several).

I am haveing one tiny problem

the hit counter is not working ? it stays at 0 ?

what did i miss ?

I need a bit more information. I registered at your site and didn't see any hits counters displayed at all. Have you turned off the hits display using the links admin page? When you say the counter stays at 0, I assume that is what is being displayed - could you checked the database (table local_linkslink, column linkhits)? Have you edited the templates at all?

You just got yourself an install ;)

I plan to add an "extended description" in the add_link. How would I go, if there are no links, instead of displaying the error to display that?

Sorry, I'm not sure I quite understand.

You want to add an extra field in the links table which contains extended text concerning the link?

And you want this field to be displayed if the link is missing/invalid/?

Adding an extra field to the database is quite easy - although you will mess up any upgrade path that I offer - but you will have to make quite a few changes to avoid the error checking for valid/invalid/missing links.

Maybe you could explain what you try to do - there may be an easier approach.

Thanks for your reply. I am using this to display references: pdf, mp3, external pages etc... and it is working great for me. I'd like to be able also to display biographies. For that I thought of using the description field only, but if there are nothing in the url field, I get an error message.

What would be awesome would have been for the description box to have the same features than vbulletin newpost.php with attachment etc... but I'll be content with the ability to bypass the url field.

anyway to make user add files, but need an admin to validate them?