Hi,
I have been having a number of people submitting the same URL over and over to multiple categories (despite a "guidelines" page). I have Loony's multiple category mod installed, which makes it unnecessary to submit to multiple categories. However, I find it very inconvenient to have to click on "duplicate check" each time, and then have to delete the listing, which is not nice for those that submit either. An automatic duplicate check in add.cgi is my idea here (check in existing links and the validate database), to verify that the URL is not already listed, and giving an error message if it is. Any idea how this can be done? I'm not that familiar with Links at this time, even though I have written a few CGIs and have done a number of mods on my version of Links. But I'm sure this would be an interesting mod for many users, and I hope that someone who has more experience with Links can help with this. Thanks!
I have been having a number of people submitting the same URL over and over to multiple categories (despite a "guidelines" page). I have Loony's multiple category mod installed, which makes it unnecessary to submit to multiple categories. However, I find it very inconvenient to have to click on "duplicate check" each time, and then have to delete the listing, which is not nice for those that submit either. An automatic duplicate check in add.cgi is my idea here (check in existing links and the validate database), to verify that the URL is not already listed, and giving an error message if it is. Any idea how this can be done? I'm not that familiar with Links at this time, even though I have written a few CGIs and have done a number of mods on my version of Links. But I'm sure this would be an interesting mod for many users, and I hope that someone who has more experience with Links can help with this. Thanks!