[AndrewD]

Originally Posted by TundraSoul

Here's a suggestion for this to make searching the database more accurate and useful.

When you add or edit a link, offer the ability to associate the link with a an item from the users profile. For instance, lets say the user is from California, and there's a user profile field with a list of states, one being California. When I add a link, I could choose California and other states and that creates an association between that link and the user. For that matter all uses who have California in their profile.

The point here is to associate the information in the users profile field with links in the links database. When the user returns to the links database they can optionally search for new links and be shown what's relevant to them. This association can be useful with many types if links or downloadable content. You could have profile fields for locations, hobbies, vehicles, schools, etc, and put groups of links together based on the users apparent interest.

Thank you - you're well ahead of me here In fact, when I get the requested extensions and bug fixes done, I intend to start work on a new hack or module or something to do more or less what you are suggesting:

- allows keyword associations - just as you say - to point directly at entries in LDM, and ideally also at posts/threads
- allows users to define keywords of interest to them and to manage those lists
- provide a generic interface between these and, e.g., vbAdvanced, so that the user can see what's new, etc
- use this also as the guts of a glorified version of the apache error 404 trap, so that requests to go to /yoursite/keyword either take the user directly to a particular page or carry out a keyword search.

Any further ideas? I don't know how long this will take me and/or if part of the job is already done.