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1 | Jennifer

September 11th, 2003 at 6:20 pm

Hi! I have just installed add-a-link (and everything is fine) but I am having problems trying to figure out what the path to my links files is.. Call me blonde but this is what I am getting..(?)

Example:
<?
//change the path below to point to where your links file are
$pathToLinks = " ";

I keep getting a warning when I go to the admin about this, So if anyone could help me out I would greatly appreciate it.. Feel free to email if you got a few minutes..:)
Thanks..
Jenn

2 | Akilesh Ayyar

May 7th, 2003 at 4:06 am

Hi everyone. I took the script and made a few small revisions to it. The main change is that it can now import and export OPML (though you can't much manipulate it). I wanted this feature because I use an RSS aggregator, and want to easily be able to have my blogroll keep up with my news reading list.

You can download the revised script here

Please inform me if there are any major bugs, though I don't think I'll be adding new features. This is, at least for the moment, a one-shot thing.

I hope you enjoy it.

3 | Jill

April 18th, 2003 at 3:12 pm

Ok… making progress. I have gotten rid of the above errors but still get the following on the admin page…

Warning: main(/home/perpetua/public_html/links/) [function.main]: failed to create stream: Inappropriate ioctl for device in /home/perpetua/public_html/links/linkadmin.php on line 30

Warning: main() [function.main]: Failed opening '/home/perpetua/public_html/links/' for inclusion (include_path='.:/usr/local/lib/php') in /home/perpetua/public_html/links/linkadmin.php on line 30

4 | Jamie Moore

April 10th, 2003 at 9:48 am

Hey I take it that this is a good service!

5 | Jill

April 18th, 2003 at 2:51 pm

Don't know if anyone is still reading comments on this post but I am running into errors trying to set it up…

Warning: fopen(/home/perpetua/public_html/links/) [function.fopen]: failed to create stream: Is a directory in /home/perpetua/public_html/links/addalinkform.php on line 20

Warning: fwrite(): supplied argument is not a valid stream resource in /home/perpetua/public_html/links/addalinkform.php on line 25

Warning: fwrite(): supplied argument is not a valid stream resource in /home/perpetua/public_html/links/addalinkform.php on line 30

Warning: fwrite(): supplied argument is not a valid stream resource in /home/perpetua/public_html/links/addalinkform.php on line 32

Warning: fclose(): supplied argument is not a valid stream resource in /home/perpetua/public_html/links/addalinkform.php on line 33

Any idea what the problem is? I made sure I chmodded the appropriate files. Awesome script btw!!

6 | Jennifer

January 15th, 2003 at 1:36 pm

It looks like my bug fix may not be needed after all… If you're getting errors, give it a try. If you're not – don't worry about it.

7 | David

January 16th, 2003 at 12:11 pm

One problem I'm getting.. is at the main screen it has a weird message.

It's kind of long:
"links:
:‹e 
.a ..;‹e styles.css×<‹e addalink.php=‹eaddalinkform.phpi³Ø>‹e addalist.php?‹e class.xml.php@‹e editlink.phpA‹e footer.php×B‹e getCode.phpC‹e linkadmin.phpD‹elinkconfig.phpE‹e linkfiles.phpF‹e moveLinks.phpG‹emyBookmarklet.php³ØH‹e readme.txt×I‹eremovealist.phpJ‹eremovelink.phpK‹e topnav.php×L‹eweblogsupdate.php³ØM‹e@ links.phpx×"

8 | reb

January 17th, 2003 at 3:07 pm

hmm…well, i didn't change any of the paths to web paths…..just followed the instructions that came with the download and only put absolute paths in it. do i need to change any paths within the files themselves?

9 | reb

January 15th, 2003 at 11:11 am

i know you're not really offering support for this anymore, so i'm sending this question out to anyone out there who will find it in the kindess of their heart to help me. i keep getting the following error when i put the code on page….

Warning: main(class.xml.php) [function.main]: failed to create stream: No such file or directory in /home/reb/public_html/links/weblogsupdate.php on line 2

Fatal error: main() [function.main]: Failed opening required 'class.xml.php' (include_path=") in /home/reb/public_html/links/weblogsupdate.php on line 2

i have no idea what to do next. any help would be awesome! thank you!

10 | Jennifer

January 15th, 2003 at 12:52 pm

Aside from the change I made… it looks like paths to files also need to be absolute paths. (Found this on Christine's site.
so files need to be like this:
/home/path/to/file/file.php
instead of using http://yoursite.com/path/to/file/file.php.

Don't know if that helps at all…

11 | Bob Roach

November 8th, 2002 at 7:36 am

Is anyone still here?

12 | Jennifer

January 15th, 2003 at 9:12 am

If your server was recenlty upgraded and/or if you've recently started getting a weird error using the weblogs checking code – you'll need to make a slight change to weblogsupdate.php

Look for this line:
$file = "http://www.weblogs.com/weblogUpdates/changes.xml";
and change it to this:
$file = "http://weblogs.com/weblogUpdates/changes.xml";
(remove the "www." part of the url)

That should fix the problem.

13 | Liz

September 27th, 2002 at 11:29 am

Hi, is a new version ever coming out?
Thanks,
Liz

14 | Jennifer

September 27th, 2002 at 1:56 pm

I had intended to make a new one… but time has been really short recently. I think it needs quiet an overhaul – and I just haven't had the time to devote to it like I had had before.

Anyone is free to take on the challenge though, and I'd be happy to help out/advise…

15 | Shannon

October 21st, 2002 at 9:28 pm

About the "flex scanner" error on the linkadmin page…
Try this:
ftp into linkfiles.php, it should have a list of your lists, go to the end of the last list name and hit delete a time or two. This should fix the problem.

16 | Jennifer

August 3rd, 2002 at 2:01 pm

******IMPORTANT UPDATE 7/30/02******
There's been a number of bugs found with this script. Lynda is working on a mySQL version (and hopefully that'll also fix the bugs). If people still want a non-mySQL version, I can fix this one… email me if you're interested, so I can get an idea of the interest level for it.
**************************************

(yeah, that's one of the bugs… one of the files is supposed to be completely empty, but for some reason has a "return" in it… That may fix the problem… it may not… either way, a new version will be made soon mySQL version from Lynda… and a revised flat file version (like this one) as soon as I'm done with another project… may take a week or two….

17 | Dennis Jackson

August 24th, 2002 at 11:00 pm

I have a question about this piece of coding:

$itsNew = " **";

How do you make that work. It doesn't seem to on me.

Thanks!

18 | Jen

September 8th, 2002 at 5:07 pm

I just downloaded the script, and it's great!

There's only one thing I'd like to see added thus far: when adding a link, I'd like to be able to add a title to the <a> tag.

The word "title" is misleading, because what the script calls the title is the information between <a href=""> and </a>. I'd like to have <a href="url" title="descriptive text">some text</a>.

I don't know what to change, or where, in the code if I were to try to do it myself…

19 | pi

August 3rd, 2002 at 12:19 pm

great work, but i have a tiny problem:
Fatal error: input in flex scanner failed in /homepages/1/xxxxx/htdocs/xpi/addlink on line 1
i also cannot remove links, it says 'no link' selected.

thanks
pi

20 | maddy

July 30th, 2002 at 9:52 pm

Note for PHP novices, if your scripts are on a different server to your blog, change the file path to the url, and it'll work just fine!

By the way, formatting the text file of links and adding them to the appropriate list.php worked brilliantly. Much quicker!

Thanks!

21 | maddy

July 30th, 2002 at 8:50 pm

So, I changed over to .php, and tried implementing the script, but Im having some problems. I'm going to post about them on the MT support forum, because I don't want to clutter your comments with my code!

The thread in the forum is here.

Oh, and please feel to delete my previous comment!

22 | maddy

July 28th, 2002 at 7:12 pm

This is probably a very obvious question, but I am incredibly new to PHP. I've set up the script on my server, and I can add links just fine. In fact, I think this is absolutely awesome. I've a bunch links I'm dying to add (probably via text file)

My problen is (and here my ignorance comes to light), I do not know how to get the links to appear on my page. My blog is currently all .html (but I'll change to .php if I need to to get this to work!). What I need is the line of code to insert into my .html page. Can that be done? None of the tutorials I found helped me!

I'm familiar with using Javascript, so I'm expecting to insert some code in the HEAD, and then wherever I want the results to appear in the body.

23 | Vix

July 8th, 2002 at 10:52 pm

Is there anyway I can add a batch of links using a text file?

Just curious if that would be possible

24 | Jennifer

July 16th, 2002 at 9:41 pm

Vix – take a look at the link file you create… all it really is, is a text file. If you format your links in a similar way… making sure you're using HARD returns at the end of each link/line (if you're using a Mac – these returns may not be read properly), it'll read those links as if you added them using the script.

If that doesn't make sense – email me, we'll take it offline and I'll try to explain it better.

25 | kristine

June 25th, 2002 at 11:58 am

Well, after updating to the latest version of the code, I still don't think my lists are all checking weblogs.com for updates. No error messages like before, though. I have two lists on my sidebar, and it looks like the first one is still the only one updating. I thought it was just because the people on that list were quiet yesterday, but when I read all my reads this morning, I see that updates were made by all of them during times I would have seen the update happen.

Is this something else you might still be working on, Jenn? I'm using the "get code" for the alphabetical weblogs.com checking format.
Thanks!

26 | kristine

June 24th, 2002 at 11:44 am

Hey, totally go for the cleaning up this post – since its still in development and will be referenced more still, it does have some old thoughts that don't need to be there!

Or maybe move all of the important comments to your new update post and point to there from now on :giggle:

27 | Jennifer

June 24th, 2002 at 7:46 am

my bad. Download fixed. (Again, this is what I get for releasing it so late in the evening!) DOH!

28 | Jennifer

June 24th, 2002 at 8:13 am

I'm thinking about removing some of the comments here – just to clean things up. (Some of the comments are about the earlier script, or aren't relevant anymore)…

Would that make sense? I don't want to offend anyone… just want to make this page more usable.

29 | Richard

June 24th, 2002 at 1:56 am

I'm unable to download it at the moment (getting a 404!), but this is what I did:

1. Created a new blog
2. Created two templates, one a straight listing of entries from two categories, and another for a formatted listing for all categories
3. Included the raw listing in my main index using PHP

That way, I can just use the MT-provided bookmarklet, and blog a site, choose the blog and then category (edit it so that it includes a target="_blank" in the <a> tags.

I'd be still interested to try out your script, but it doesn't want to download for me

30 | altonpost

June 23rd, 2002 at 9:33 pm

hiya,

Me again….what Im really looking is for something like this where readers can post comments on my main page about my site which is for my local area…I think it would make my site more sticky…where can i get the script for this…newby

31 | zalary

June 24th, 2002 at 12:41 am

Jeff,

i think what you are looking for is actually something more along the lines of this — which lets visitors add their own links to your site.

this script here is more for managing your own private link list.

hope that helps.

32 | kristine

June 22nd, 2002 at 5:15 pm

Hey, something like that might work! coolness (I just sent you an email with a bunch of brainstorms )

33 | altonpost

June 23rd, 2002 at 9:28 pm

Hiya

This script is what I have been lookiong for…I don't understand blogging though ?

I downloaded the file and got it on my site…running..im not sure what im supposed to do with it now…do i need bloglinks.php or something…or am I missing some other file ? I just wanted a place on my site for people to be able to ad links.

Thanks

Jeff

34 | Jennifer

June 22nd, 2002 at 5:00 pm

Actually – you know what Kristine… that moving links to another list might be easier than I first thought. I'll probably use some form of this javascript to do it. Hmmm… think I know how I'll be spending my evening!

35 | Jennifer

June 20th, 2002 at 2:56 pm

1) You can have it more than once… or actually I should say, you *will be able to* have it more than once… just need to change the code

2) yeah, it is a pretty easy change… I did some testing though, and 100 seemed to be the point at which the page load was tolerable… anything above that seemed to take too long – if you go into weblogupdate.php – look for "100" in the code… change it to whatever you want. test it out…

3) While I can see the value of that kind of feature, that would be a much bigger undertaking… I'll probably be adding other features before that one (for example; the ability to have it be a list of IMAGES (like buttons) instead of text links…)… but I'll put it on the list of possible "to-do's"

36 | kristine

June 20th, 2002 at 2:41 pm

I figured it probably had somethng to do with the fact that I couldn't use it twice, so what you said did make sense! Not that I know how to fix it, but LOL because I knew what you meant

Hey, if I want to poll more than the last 100 pings to weblogs.com, can I play around and see if I can make a change in the weblogsupdate file? Or is there more that I need to know than just changing 100 to say 250 or something so that I get the updates in there for a longer period of time? If so, no worries, it was just a thought.

Another thought. LOL, I'm wordy today! How about a way to move a link from one list to another? I noticed as I was adding that I put a few things in the wrong spot. Because I had done more than a few, I just opened up the links file and reuploaded it. :giggle: But maybe that would be a future enhancement that you might wanna play with.

But truely, its already wonderful, and YOU ARE WONDERFUL!! Thank you for making such a neato thing!!!

37 | Jennifer

June 20th, 2002 at 2:23 pm

Ok. I think I know what that is… I can fix it tonight.. but what's happening is you're calling that "weblogsupdate.php" which writes the links with the * (if updated)… but in that file there's a call to define class.xml.php… I guess you can only do that once… I'll have to adjust the "getCode" so that if you're showing more than one listing on the same page it doesn't conflict…

that probably made sense to no one but myself! LOL…

Suffice to say – I know what the problem is, and I'll fix it tonight.

38 | kristine

June 20th, 2002 at 1:42 pm

So its all going smoothly, and then I went to insert the two lists into my sidebar (because I display the "dailyloves" and the "newloves" and I got this error:

Fatal error: Cannot redeclare class xml_container in /home/love/public_html/hopelessromantics/reads/class.xml.php on line 252

I'm gonna work on it a bit more later on and see if I can fix it myself, so its no hurry at all for you to look at!!!!, but I thought I'd let you know as I was playing

39 | kristine

June 20th, 2002 at 12:43 pm

Thanks, Jenn! I'm working on putting it together it right now (instead of napping. LOL!) I think its wonderful!

40 | Jennifer

June 20th, 2002 at 11:41 am

Got a break in my work this afternoon – and updated it… let me know if you run into problems.

41 | Jennifer

June 20th, 2002 at 11:29 am

I temporarily removed the download because

1) I noticed a few problems with it this morning, and

2) that download didn't include all the files you need… have no idea why.

I'll make the changes and upload the zip file tonight… Sorry for the inconvenience.

42 | ste

June 20th, 2002 at 1:41 am

Rock on! I'm gonna try this latest version tomorrow!! Woohoo!

43 | ste

June 20th, 2002 at 11:16 am

404 File Not Found?? Are you updating it again or am I just stupid?

44 | Christine

June 20th, 2002 at 1:14 am

Thank goodness I left my bloglinks.php list alone when I put everything into Blogrolling yesterday! Can I still use that one? Ok, I need to stop, be still, and READ your instructions for this to put it in to place. THANK YOU for working so hard on it. I *love* the weblogs.com check feature!!! I'm so EXCITED!!!

45 | Carla

June 16th, 2002 at 10:11 pm

I guess I'm still trying to understand what blogrolling is.

46 | Jason D-

June 16th, 2002 at 11:51 am

Hey, anyone interested in going through my blogrolling.com code and helping out on making the personal edition? Basicaly I need a security check. I don't want to release anything that will expose vulnerabilities in the main blogrolling.com site and frankly I'm just too busy to do it myself. If you are interested in helping do a security audit so the code can be relased into the wild please drop me a line at jason[at]code9.com.

47 | Sasha

June 16th, 2002 at 9:57 am

Thanks for your help…I tried it by editing stuff in the addalink.php or addalinkform.php files, but it wouldn't work properly. So, in the end, I just edited the code in the bloglink.php file, without using the web interface. It takes a little longer to do, but it works just fine now.
Might be a nice idea to make it a new feature in the next version, maybe.

48 | Chris Hileman

June 15th, 2002 at 10:12 am

You should be able to go into the addalink.php or addalinkform.php files and look for where it makes the link and insert the code for your images. Make sure to use a a ' instead of a " in your code since it's PHP. I had to go add a font tag before the link title and I just did it in the PHP file. If you need help let me know.

49 | Jennifer

June 15th, 2002 at 10:29 am

actually it might be more involved than that… It'll have to take some tweaking…

I think it can be done… it just may take awhile… looks like I'll be starting a new job soon, so I may be a little swaped for the next week or so…

Any PHPers out there that want to help? I'd be happy to help you out to get you going in the right direction – I think I know what needs to be done for this… the XML parsing is a littl more involved… I also have a start on the "multiple link files" part… anyone? Bueller? anyone?

50 | Lady Phoxxe

June 14th, 2002 at 3:39 pm

This is AWESOME!!! I'm happy with Blogrolling and still use it for several other link lists but I really wanted to be able to use the lovely "random links" script so I went ahead and installed this for my "main reads" list – I had no idea it was complete (with a web interface and everything). It's fantastic!!!

You rock:)

51 | Promo

June 15th, 2002 at 3:39 am

How about letting users add their link, but it isnt shown in the list until you approve it?

What if you got an email each time a submission was made?

Just tossin out ideers!

52 | Sasha

June 15th, 2002 at 9:45 am

I was wondering, would it be possible to, instead of text links, have images show up that are linked to the sites? Like small link buttons? Because I would love to use this script for my Affiliates list….but so far, I can't get it to work with images. Any ideas what I should do to get it to work?

53 | kristine

June 13th, 2002 at 8:56 am

There ya go!! Oh, I'm so excited for your brain, its gonna have a fun time figuring this out!!! :giggle: And I'm so excited to see how it all works out. This makes me mucho happy!

54 | Simply Sara

June 13th, 2002 at 4:13 pm

I installed it, Jenn and it's wonderful, yay! Thank you a million times~

55 | Lynda

June 12th, 2002 at 11:44 pm

Oh if you can figure out how to read the weblogs.com ping (or better yet, since these lists are small comparitively, have ths script to a small ping every so often to see if the site has changed) I will forever be in your debt!

56 | Simply Sara

June 13th, 2002 at 7:48 am

Thank you for this! It just takes so damn long to load up my (Blog Rolling) blog reads on the page…I was hoping y'all would figure out how to do this so it can live with me.

57 | Jennifer

June 13th, 2002 at 8:05 am

Oooh! You know what! I think I will be able to get it to check weblogs.com. there's an XML file that weblogs.com creates. It's just a matter of parsing in php… this'll be fun!

58 | kristine

June 8th, 2002 at 9:42 pm

Okay, cool, I was sure it was my fault because I missed something between the first post and the instructions LOL!
And rock on! So cool, this is gonna be way cool Thanks for all you do!

59 | Jennifer

June 8th, 2002 at 9:34 pm

yeah… I realized today that I forgot to add that to the instructions! DOH! (I'll fix that in the next "release")

and yes – my plan is to implement support for multiple lists… (ie. choosing which list you want to add the link to)…

I think once I get that down, I can add that "rating" sorting too

60 | kristine

June 8th, 2002 at 8:01 pm

I'm working on this this afternoon. Because i hadn't used the previous random script stuff on the aforementioned post (and I'm really not interested in using this to display random posts – I'm more looking for it to display all posts)… I wasn't quite sure where to start. So maybe making that more clear in the instructions might be helpful!

I'm sure I'll get this figured out soon, but thought I'd post my findings as I worked on it.

I added a list of links to a new file named bloglinks.php. And then I uploaded everything into a new directory called "reads" under my journal directory.

I ran addalinkform.php, and although it added the link, I got a bunch of errors that looked like this:

Warning: fopen("/home/USER/public_html/hopelessromantics/reads/bloglinks.php", "a") – Permission denied in /home/USER/public_html/hopelessromantics/reads/addalinkform.php on line 5

This fixed itself when I chmoded the bloglinks.php file to 777… but I don't see where it says to do that anywhere.

Its working smashingly now!

If you want me to write some CSS to spiff up the addalinkform, I'd be happy to. The bookmarklet works great.

A feature that's kinda cool with the blogrolling program is the ability to have multiple sections to add the links too. Would that be a feature that could be added in the future – a way to have a dropdown box to specify which file the addaform wrote to? You could have bloglinks1.php bloglinks2.php etc. or daily.php, more.php, new.php if it was easy to set that up.

And then there's a priority level setting, where you give each link a priority of 1-9, and this allows things to be displayed in a priority level format instead of alphabetical or randomly. For me with blogrolling, that's how I display my links – I give 1's to my sites, 2s to the ones who update most, etc. ,etc.

Anyhow, those are just a few suggestions. I think this could be just as cool as blogrolling, and even better because its not javascript to insert (which doesn't work when people are surfing w/their JS off) and its local, so its not something that has to rely on someone elses system going down. Yet, its still easy to add links to. And hopefully will be easy to take links out if that's an addition in the future. Yes, so I think I do like this idea more :giggle: You rock, Jenn

61 | Jennifer

June 8th, 2002 at 6:30 pm

Also – just so you know, I'll probably be working over the weekend to add some features to this script. Here's what I've done already (but just haven't uploaded yet):

1) If you change your mind and hit "cancel" – it won't add a "null" link. (If this has already happened to you, and you need to fix it – just go into the bloglinks.php file and blow away that line)

2) The "name" of the link is prefilled with the title of the html page you're linking to (just as a time saver – you can change it to be whatever you want)

some features I'm hoping to get done this weekend (we'll see how much time I have):
1) The ability to REMOVE links (from an web interface)

2) A check to make sure you haven't already added that link with some sort of "error" control – either offering you the option to REPLACE the link – or to change your mind about adding it.

Future feature:
Support for multiple links.

62 | Jennifer

June 8th, 2002 at 6:23 pm

That's actually already done if you add the "random" part to it… see this script

But if you want to display the whole list, here you go:

<?
$array = file("/path/to/your/list/of/blogs/bloglinks.php");
sort($array);
for ($i=0; $i<count($array); $i++) {
echo $array[$i];
}
?>

(Haven't tested that out… but it should work. Email me if you have any problems, and I'll fix it)

63 | kristine

June 6th, 2002 at 6:56 am

Jenn, since no one has left you a comment yet, I think this looks like a fabulous thing, and promise to try it out when I feel better You rock

64 | Simply Sara

June 7th, 2002 at 10:03 am

I'm going to try this out later on today, looks wonderful! Have a great weekend~

65 | Chris Hileman

June 8th, 2002 at 12:38 pm

This thing is awesome and so far I can't find ANY bugs. I have a feature request though. Could you make a script that will look at the link text and put the links in alphabetical order? Just an idea, I don't even know if it is possible. Other then that it is looking good!

66 | Affy

November 30th, 2004 at 8:41 pm

i can't remove links