Its not missing any it has too many :p I have this fixed, but didn't think anyone else would have this prob, I will look into the remapp problem, I have tested these out and 2 sorts of servers, but I can never guess how they will work in different conditions :-/

-Arunan

Hi, the solution for this is on couple of pages before, the last instance of </td></tr></table> I believe should be removed off in all templates this problem occurs in.

Hey guys,

I just upgraded. Im getting the same exact error when I click on a category or when I click on search. I don't understand your explanation to fix it. What is "en cats"? How do I fix this?

Im running 2.2.8


Thanks

Bingo! Thanks ;)

Ok actually I just uninstalled everything and reinstalled and it seems to be working great now. I have no idea why the upgrade wouldn't work.

There are a couple of questions that I have.


1. Is there any way to arrange the order of category list? Is there a way to move one category down the list etc? This would really be helpful for me because I have about 20 categories I am going to add, and they are all three distinct separate subjects. Right now, my categories are in no coherent order and it would be great if I could organize them into sections...for example,

-----------------------------------------------
1. Film

Category 1
Category 2
Category 3

2. Digital Video

Category 1
Category 2
Category 3

3. Web

Category 1
Category 2
Category 3
--------------------------------------------------

Im not really talking about "sub categories"...just arranging the main categories on the main list. When they are all put in alphabetical order, there is no order to the categories. I know this may be a lot to ask, but I really really think this would increase the usabilty of your hack.



Question 2.

How do you validate the links? THis may be a dumb question, but...I have validation set to "yes". I tried submitting a link on the actual links page. It didn't show up which is correct...and it shows up in my admin cp which is correct...but how do I go about making this link valid? I don't see any option to do that anywhere.


Suggestion.....

You misspelled "category" on a lot of pages that show up not only in the admin PC, but on the links page. You have it as "catagory". Not really a big deal but you might want to fix that just to make it perfect. :D

Thanks for all the help. Great hack indeed!

For the catagories to be moved up or down, new field has to be added, where the order can be specified, I can work on something like this specifically for you, and other who want it, if you wish.

-Arunan

:banana: That would be awesome if you could do that!

I made a big mistake with the upgrade :-/ it added the new values to the cat table, not the links table, the zip is fixed.

Ok, if you upgraded latly, and the hack didn't work, please see the updates section on the first post for how to fix this.

Thanks, and sorry
-Arunan

oops, I just found the validate link option in the CP...for some reason I missed it. Sorry about that.

The vB option have to be set, so the change take place, if validation is set in your vB option, then the validate link will appear, if it isn't the Validate Link will not apear :)

Great addon. Thanks a lot for this.

I installed it and everything works just fine on vbulletin 2.2.8!

Thanks again,

Ricoche

Your welcome Ricoche, have fun, and report any problems in this thread.

I'm not sure if this is a problem or not and this also could be just my system.

After clicking a few links to try this out I notice it kept reloading my site. For a while there I thought the script wasn't working and then while sitting there for a moment longer I noticed it kind of redirected itself to the actual link.

My minor concern here is that my users will think the link is broken because it's reloading my site. There is a message there that says "one moment please..." but it kind of fooled me because it was very small and the link wouldn't load until after my site finished reloading.

Is this normal or might there be some system problem I'm having.

I love this script because it looks much nicer than my vbportal version but I wish it would load the new site first and not reload my site.

Oh well, I'll keep toying with it.

Thanks again,

Ricoche

You are supposed to get this intermediate page, I suspect it's because the database is being updated with no. of hits the link has received. It's the same reason there are intermediate pages after posting in vbulletin etc. to give the database a chance to be written to.

HTH, G :rambo:

Is there any way around this? I see this as being a real annoyance to my users, especially ones on dial-up. On broadband you can't even see what the page is even supposed to say it sort of just blinks on then off when the new page loads. Which is sort of annoying as well. Great hack by the way. Thanks.

JakeC

You could always give up tracking hits :)

I have installed the hack. appears in admin controll fine and displays fine in admin. But on the main board I don't see a sign of it.....ummmm help me please

Please note that i'm new to all this, so I am a learner! :surprised:

I have VB 2.2.8

here is what I did..... edited all the files adminfunctions, index, template. deleted and updated the files with the newly edited ones.
did the vbldir_install which went fine. Deleted the vbldir_install file as per instructions.
uploaded templates what come with the .zip for the hack, into the vbulletin root. Copied links.php into vbulletin root.
Copied weblinksadmin.php into admin folder

Thanks, MonsterDK

does vb links support a user permission (user masks) or can you enable a password on a vblinks forum? basically to restrict access to a certain weblink forum?

good stuff man, nick hack
you just saved me a lot of time

You need to create a link to it yourself and put it somewhere on your main index or homepage. The link to the directory should be something like http://www.yoursite.com/forum/links.php

HTH,

G :rambo:

Sorry but i'm new at this.
Do I edit the index.php in the root on vB or do you mean link it into a index.htm page that links to the board itself?

With it saying..
iii.) To view ALL the Links in the Database, click 'View ALL Links'
link under the Vb Link Directory Nav.
I'm confused how linking to an index.htm will ensure its appearance there.

Help me please.

You do not upload the templates that came with the zip, they are only there for refrence if you want to edit.

go to your admin panel, and add new catagories.

The only permission I have bothered to put is you have to be registered, activated and not a COPPA user. Password protection and other sorts will not come in use to the majority of the people who use this hack, so it will not be made a default addon, unless 51% of the people who installed want it.

Thanks CTRLALTDEL

SubForums are done, I will get people to beta it, and post screenshots, and release it soon!

Installed :D

Very nice hack DrkFusion!

Thank You Cyberhouse

This is a great hack, there's just a couple of small things outstanding that I think it needs:

- When validating a link, the category should be shown with the option of changing it if it's in the wrong place, same thing for edit link

- hits still increment by 2 each time

- no. of links shown beside each category would be nice

With these options added/fixed this hack would be complete for me, I don't really have a need for what's coming in the next upgrade.

Thanks again and if you can help with the above that would be great,

G :rambo:

There should be a problem for incrementing my 2, my other sites have not had this problem, and no one else has had this problem, if you have not upgraded, I would suggest trying to upgrade.

I'm ready for the beta test...I will be on AIM today...

Trying to Download and Install but the link to the .ZIP is broken from the first post.

Actually there is a problem with the .ZIP link. If you link via the IP and not the URL it downloads fine. Might be on my end.

This is a great hack. Installed really well. One thing. In the READ ME it never says to upload link.php to the board dir and to link to that for the actual web link directory.

Are you going to add sub catagories to this? Or is this what this is (lol) :

"SubForums are done, I will get people to beta it, and post screenshots, and release it soon!"

Cause if thats the case I would like to test it too.

Thanks!!!

Upload Links.php to the forum root, and weblinksadmin.php to ur admin.

Subforums will be added soon.

ATTENTION ALL VBHOME(LITE) USERS
If you use vBHome(lite) (by:TECK) check out http://www.teckwizards.com for more information on how to integrate this Links Directory into your vBHome!
You must be liscensed vb user, so you will get access to the addons forum at TeckWizards.

See Below for Screenshot

lol @ Drfusion, not bad but I already do that with myvbindex, it aint that hard. Good one :)

Yeah, this is what's preventing me from making the "submit link" feature available to the public (I have it commented out) ;) Is this already addressed in the recent update, Drk?

Great hack, nevertheless...

Yes It is, I will be re coding the validate option fully, as the current version is really unappropriate for huge links that are added.

Yes very :-D

I've compared my links.php to your latest one from vblinksdir2012.zip and the only difference is the chdir I added as I have my links.php outside my forums directory ( chdir("./forum"); )

Is it possible that this is causing my hits counter to increment by 2 each time? If so, have you any idea how I could fix this????

TIA,

G :smoke:

Edit: I also got this database error today? :

Database error in vBulletin 2.2.8:

Invalid SQL: SELECT * FROM gportal_weblinkslink WHERE catagoryid= AND valid='1' ORDER BY linkname
mysql error: You have an error in your SQL syntax near 'AND valid='1' ORDER BY linkname' at line 1

mysql error number: 1064

Date: Thursday 21st of November 2002 07:43:45 AM
Script: http://www.-------------/forum/links...ks&amp;catid=1
Referer: http://aolsearch.aol.co.uk/web.adp?q...nufacturers...

Any idea what caused that, the hack is working well but obviously one of my users triggered something the database didn't like?

Is it possible to add a "New" image next to new links and also next to the main catagories if there are new links in the respective cats?