When the admin is adding/editing categories he can choose related categories. How can I allow the admin to also add related links to a link and display them under the link?

Simon Dyson

It would not seem practical to display related links in the main directory pages. Instead, I would put them in the details page.

I don't know if this will work or not so better keep a backup ready...

1) In links.cfg, add a field called 'Related'.
2) In site_html_templates.pl, sub site_html_detailed
add:
after:
then add:
before:
3) In site_html_templates.pl
add:
4) Create a new template called 'link_related.html' and upload to your template directory.
5) From the admin program, you can now enter link ID's seperated by a '~' in a text field. I don't think you'd want a select list...

--Drew

Thanks Drew,

that all sounds pretty straight forward, other than I may have problems setting up the template in site_html.pl (I don't use templates)

Simon

Okay...
1) Same as previous instructions.
2) Add the $related variable to $output in site_html_detailed where ever you want it displayed.
3 & 4) Make a copy of site_html_link, and change all references of $rec to $rel, and %rec to %rel.

(Now, I've never actually used site_html.pl, so this is just a guess based on the few times I've looked at it.)

--Drew

Thanks again Drew!

Simon

Hi, Simon

Did you get this to work?

kjellkk and I have tried it - http://www.gossamer-threads.com/...w=collapsed&sb=5, but we have problems building past the first detailed page that has related links on it. For example, if I have 100 detailed pages, and the first one has related links on it, the build detailed function dies right after the first detailed page. However, nph-build continues to build the rest of the site without a hitch.

How's is working for you? Can we see it on your site? Any suggestions on how to get it to work? I'm using templates, and I think kjellkk is, too.

Thanks so much.

DT

I never guarenteed that hack would work

Try turning off details and use dynamic details via info.cgi or detail.cgi.

Happy Coding,

--Drew
http://www.FindingHim.com

No problem, Drew! I'm happy that you made the suggestion and got this concept rolling. I think it could be pretty neat. Hopefully, with a little more hacking, it can get working. Thanks for your help!

DT

Okay, there are two things not working with this:

1. The building of static detailed pages stops after the first one that has Related links
2. The script is not grabbing the template used for Related links

Here's my code in sub site_html_detailed
What else is needed to get the script to capture the template?

Thanks.

I don't know if this would fix the problem but try adding:
above
so that $related doesn't append indefinately...

Why do you have three tags for $title_linked?

Happy Coding,

--Drew
http://www.FindingHim.com

Hi Drew

I have the 3 title_linked things because somewhere along the way I got the idea that if I screw up the spelling on some of the template pages that it would still work. I gotta clean up some of this stuff...

I'll give the extra code for the related links a try and get back to you. Thanks so much for your help.

Best...
DT

Hi Drew

I tried the extra code that you suggested, but no luck. The build of the detailed pages still stops right after the first detailed page with related links on it.

However, I found that if I uninstalled Loopy's AltCat mod - http://www.online-sweepstakes.com/links-mods/ - and Joker's Join Mod - http://www.gossamer-threads.com/...ew=&sb=&vc=1 - (which combined Bobsie's Exclude Mod, Loopy's AltCat Mod, and Elms' code to add the AltCat to the add.html form - http://www.gossamer-threads.com/...ew=&sb=&vc=1), I found that the Related Links template was working okay.

So, the only problem remaining is building ALL detailed pages if ANY have Related Links.

Does Related Links work for you?

Thanks.

DT

Just pulling this to the top. Anyone have any luck with this one?

Many thanks.

DT

I was wondering if anyone made a related links modification that works with a pull-down menu just like related category. (I don't have a lot of links so the list would not be to big to load!)

Hi, just bumpin 'er up to see if anyone might have any thoughts.

Thanks.

DT

Resurrection...

The problem is that the building of detail pages quits once the first detail page with related links is built.



DT

I give up.

To be honest I haven't got a clue what is causing it to halt the build process.

Maybe Glenn or Eliot could take a look...

--Drew

Does it halt for you, too, junko, or might it be something quirky with the scripting of the few of us who are having probs?

If it's not halting for you, then I know it's on my end.

Thanks!

DT

I *never* installed this hack. It was a suggestion, never implied or directly expressed to be functional by any means. I do not see anything syntaticly incorrect with the provided code...

ug... one last try:

--Drew

Just gave that code a quick test and had a similar problem of building only one detailed page. I seem to remember having a similar problem after I hacked the detailed sub to build "comments" a while back. Anyway just a suggestion but shoving the code into nph_build.cgi instead seems to work so in the build detailed sub you'd have:

sub build_detailed_view {
# --------------------------------------------------------
# This routine build a single page for every link.
#
my (@values, $id, %rec, %rel, $related, $count);
if ($build_detail_path =~ m,^$build_root_path/(.*)$,) {
&build_dir ($1);
}
print "\t";

open (DB, "<$db_file_name") or &cgierr("unable to open database: $db_file_name. Reason: $!");
LINE: while (<DB>) {
/^#/ and next LINE; # Skip comment Lines.
/^\s*$/ and next LINE; # Skip blank lines.
chomp;
@values = &split_decode ($_);
$id = $values[$db_key_pos];
%rec = &array_to_hash (0, @values);
$title_linked = &build_linked_title ("$rec{'Category'}/$rec{'Title'}");


$related = "";
@rel = split(/~/, $rec{'Related'});
foreach $related_link (@rel) {
my (%rel) = &get_record ($related_link);
$related .= &site_html_related_link (%rel);
}

open (DETAIL, ">$build_detail_path/$id$build_extension") or &cgierr ("Unable to build detail page: $build_detail_path/$id$build_extension. Reason: $!");
print DETAIL &site_html_detailed (%rec, $related);
close DETAIL;
$use_html ?
print qq~<a href="$build_detail_url/$id$build_extension" target="_blank">$id</a> ~ :
print qq~$id ~;
(++$count % 10) or print "\n\t";
}
close DB;
print "\n";
}


Then in site_html_templates use:


sub site_html_detailed {
# --------------------------------------------------------
# This routine will build a single page per link. It's only
# really useful if you have a long review for each link --
# or more information then can be displayed in a summary.
#
my %rec = @_;

return &load_template ('detailed.html', {
total => $total,
grand_total => $grand_total,
title_linked => $title_linked,
related => $related,
%rec,
%globals
} );
}


Good Luck!

Glenn
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http://cgi-resource.co.uk/links

No Luck, glennu. It crapped out again. Thanks for trying.

DT

Yeah sorry, can't offer any more suggestions as it seemed to work for me.

Good Luck!

Glenn
Host Links
http://cgi-resource.co.uk/links