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29 Jul, 2002

Call for Help: MySQL version of Add-A-Link

Posted by: Lynda In: Projects

With Jennifer's permission, I'm recoding the addalink script to run with a mySQL database. This will mean a few more features and the alphabetizing will finally work. :) In addition to the current features, there will be user creation and login (which serves two purposes, one, you don't need to password protect the directory and two, you can assign more than one user to create lists. That might come into play better in the future) Also, you will be able to add a description to your link so you can display that with the output or just use it for yourself to keep things straight. And you'll also be able to choose whether you'd like the links to open in a new window or not (in short, think a php/mysql version of blogrolling… heh)

I'm doing this mostly for myself, but will be giving the code back to Jennifer so she can look it over and advise whether she'd like to post it (I'm always wary of rewriting people's scripts and posting the results, although aside from the javascript, this is a total rewrite)

Anyone else interested in a mySQL version? (If you're only allotted one mySQL database in your account, you can use one database for a number of different tables, so if you're worried about that, don't be. If you don't have access to a mySQL database, I am assuming the text database version will continue to be worked on as well.)

I'm mostly done the scripts, just need to test things and retest them and develop an installation script, so look for it soon.

Before I hand it over to Jennifer though, I'd like to know if people are interested in any other features? Besides what the script can do currently, what would you be interested in having it do?

11 Responses to "Call for Help: MySQL version of Add-A-Link"

1 | michael

July 29th, 2002 at 11:25 am

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cool can't wait till it comes out (if it does).

2 | Liz

July 29th, 2002 at 12:12 pm

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that would rock :)

3 | Chris Hileman

July 29th, 2002 at 2:39 pm

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To tell the truth, I wrote my own mySQL blog roller with mult. lists, a link adder, and page to edit and remove links, a daily habbits option, and does the updates, only problem is that the code is where I like it and is probably hidius for everyone else. ;-b

4 | Christine

July 29th, 2002 at 5:57 pm

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Pinging weblogs.com – I *really* want that. I love to see who has recently updated. Also, after installing Jenn's script the other night (which alphabetizes for me?) I realized that I wished that there was a title field – where I can enter text and it displays as a title tag in the link. (So for yours I would put "Lynda" in the title and So Very Posh as the link text.)

The ability to have multiple lists. I have a project where I need to be able to have 4 separate lists.

If you need a tester/guinea pig, just let me know. I would be happy to help in any way!

5 | Quadsk8

July 30th, 2002 at 2:58 am

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I use Jennifer's AddALink script and been thinking about this. Also to add PHP login and session for security… (lot of loose ends and script-clippings…)

Feature request: can you also add a rating field to each link, so for example I can sort my referrers by their number of refferals?

Feature request 2: A link counter script integrated, so you can display a list of most clicked links…

(I'll stop now to let you work…) Keep it up Goddesses!

6 | Lynda

July 30th, 2002 at 7:00 am

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Thanks for the suggestions! 😉

8 | Quadsk8

September 4th, 2002 at 10:07 am

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Lynda, are you still working on this?
I found that the original script (0,9Beta) does not validate the images because the measurements are not quoted.
I'm using it but are interested in the mySQL version. Would you need any Beta-testers already?
Lawrence

9 | reb

October 22nd, 2002 at 7:36 pm

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i'd be interested in this, but as i know you're pretty busy with wedding stuff, it may be a while. let us know when you get some free time. :)

10 | Simply Sara

July 30th, 2002 at 9:02 am

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YES!
I cannot wait for this especially since I have recoded the whole blog and this morning my Blog Rolling is

11 | Gotzeblogged

July 30th, 2002 at 5:29 pm

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Govblogroll
It's simple, but it's a good demonstration of a simple web service: govblogroll. It calls (via xml-rpc) weblogs.com to check

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