[AndrewD]

Originally Posted by Slave

Oh .. and one more suggestion if you have time/it can be done ..

I used to use a cgi script called Links 2.0 as my links page (I think it's been mentioned before in the thread) ..

No! I'm not asking for an importer!

But .. one thing, it was able to do, was very handy indeed .. If you went to a web page and wanted to add it to your links page you could highlight some text as your description and then click on an IE favourite and it would take you to the "add link" page, auto-fill the URL, Title and Description in the entry boxes. Then, all that was left to do was, pick which cat you wanted the link to be in and click the entry button.

It made adding links to the back-end very easy .. and quick!

Here's the code that was used for the favourite:

javascript:Q='';if(top.frames.length==0)Q=document.selection.createRange().text;void(btw=window.open('http://www.domain.com/links2.cgi?db=links&add_form=1&URL='+escape(location.href)+'&Title='+document.title+'&Description='+escape(Q),'AddToLinks','menubar=1,location=1,resizable=1,scrollbars=1,status=1,toolbar=1'));btw.focus();

I think this would be easy to do for this hack .. as long as the .php file, for adding links, is built to expect the text from the URL in the above code to be placed in the entry boxes ..

I've had a go at changing the code to be compatible with the hack ..

javascript:Q='';if(top.frames.length==0)Q=document.selection.createRange().text;void(btw=window.open('http://www.domain.com/local_links.php?action=addlink&url='+escape(location.href)+'&Title='+document.title+'&Description='+escape(Q),'addlink','menubar=1,location=1,resizable=1,scrollbars=1,status=1,toolbar=1'));btw.focus();

But of course it doesn't work as, like I said, I think the .php needs to be built expecting the text .. (and I've probably got the .php extensions wrong anyway )

What do you think?

This looks a great idea, and I'll give it some thought. When I have the time.....

I also plan to provide a new interface for mass checking/editing/adjusting viewing/dowload permissions, as this seems to be the most frequently asked question.