[ixian]

Originally Posted by Arkham

Can this also list a brief description with each link? IE take the first X number of characters from the full description? How hard would that be to add, if it's not already possible?

With php just about anything is possible - if it's in the database, you can pull it out and display it wherever you want.

The problem with this approach is you wouldn't be able to fit that many characters in the block without it looking extremely cluttered, and "snipping" the text from the main description, while very do-able, means you would have to cram as much info as possible in the first 10 or so characters - not very elegant.

A better way would be to have a short "description" field in addition to the regular description in the Links/File hack itself. I'm actually working on a mod for it - I am adding an "listing" page for files and links so you can display a lot more of them in a more organized fashion. The listing page will then take you to a page that's just for that file/link, where it makes more sense to add much longer descriptions, screen shots, etc. The "listing" page will have the new short description field I am talking about.

Once that is done (I will post it here in the addons section) it will be trivial to add a var that pulls the simple description and displays it in the block.