the trouble with gossamer threads

[gwlubin]

gossomer threads is now up and running and working well.

what it desparetely needs is some smart and clever person to come along and write a back-end script to automate the addition of links.

in principle it shouldn't be difficult for a techie to do this.

it's only a matter of time. just a matter of time

g/

machines were mice and men were lions, once upon a time. now, it's just the opposite, it's twice upon a time

[Armand]

You may just want to consider a free for all links script instead since from what I've read and seen it isn't an easy mod at all.

[gwlubin]

sorry armand, i may not have made myself clear.

what i would like to be able to do is to load up my links off-line.

/g
[This message has been edited by gwlubin (edited 04-26-99)]

[Armand]

You lost me on that one a bit... Do you mean you want the script to automatically go through and do the validating process for you?[nbsp][nbsp]That's what I was interpretting the first post as, though I may be in left field again.

[gwlubin]

dear armand,

just let me clarify.

as things stand, each link has to be added individualy by the administrator of the site visitor.

what i would like is a routine which would allow the administrator to a say, add a collection of 100 links at once.

hope that is now clear.

best wishes

g/
[This message has been edited by gwlubin (edited 04-26-99)]

[ChrisH]

Well, automatically in what way? I believe that
all you need to do is add them to the pipe-delimited
file links.db in the .../data dir.

The question is, add them from what other format? I
was able to go in and edit the links.db file by hand
with vi (OK, it was actually vim), then do a full
rebuild. As long as you keep the keys incrementing
and add the required fields you're fine. If you have
some other type of text file, I would think a perl
script to do this would be fairly do-able.


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[Armand]

Ah ha... I see now Graham.. having to add about 80-100 links[nbsp][nbsp]when I made the switch I know what you mean.[nbsp][nbsp]The links.db file was the quickest for me.[nbsp][nbsp]Have you asked Alex or Bobsie about this on the Gossamer ubb?[nbsp][nbsp]Might be the best place to seek someone to help with this.