I want to change one directory I have running phpld to wsn links there are some features I still didn’t manage to implement on WSN.
- I want the links to be inside the description, but I want it done automatically, a new field is added that asks the submitter for SEO the target keyword then the script pickup’s this word and replaces on the description with a live link automatically.
- I want rotating sitewide featured links on the footer.
- Is there any way to move categories and links database from phpld to WSN automatically?
1. What exactly does "inside the description" mean? A phrase in the description links to the url? I suppose you could add a link field phrase, then display the description using <?php echo str_replace('{LINKPHRASE}', '<a href="{LINKURL}">{LINKPHRASE}</a>', '{LINKDESCRIPTION}'); ?> though it might be better suited as a new function in classes/onelink.php, since the above will break when the description contains an '.
2. Use a toplist. If only certain links are featured, add a link field 'featured' and set the toplist to only show where featured='yes'
3. Not at present, but if someone would like to send me the phpld sql I'll have a look at adapting one of the existing sql importers to it.
2. Admin Panel -> Customizations -> Toplist Generator, select to sort by random order. If 'featured' is a link type rather than a new field, use the toplist condition type='featured'
The script for migration from phpld works fine only one little bug, if the link is inactive or pending it shows as active on the migrated database.
I also see that WSN doesn’t use META Tags any special reason for this?, my opinion that they are real necessary for SEO.
I Searched and not found the year options for sponsored links, only the option to put 365 days comes to mind .
At phpld I have a admin mod that fetches a snapshot from a online service (for example: http://www.webshotspro.com/ or other) for all the links and creates a local cache at /snapshot/{link-id}.gif is possible to do something similar on WSN.
Meta tags can be used, and there's a headers area for categories designed for them along with a spot in the admin panel for default meta tags. If you mean distinct meta tags for each link, that can be done with a custom field (I believe this is discussed in the intro manual pdf), though I don't see how meta tags are of much importance in this day and age.
The importer doesn't bring over phpld meta tags because they're in a different format (without the full <meta...> enclosure) which would've made it a pain to convert.
If you want to handle leap years you'll have to change to 366 every 4 years.
If you have a dedicated server and good working knowledge with it, I have an option ready for WSN Links to create and cache its own web thumbnails (on linux servers) but I can't figure out how to let apache/php's user create an X-Windows session as is necessary to run gnome-web-photo. It would be nice to get that working. It also requires having X and GTK installed of course, but I was testing on my desktop where I know they work so the problem had to be with apache's user setup -- I know the shell command I was using was right too, because it works when I run it as my own user, just not run within PHP, where it returns "cannot open display: (null)".
Google is using Meta-tags again for creating descriptions on the searches and for the duplicated content filter, so now they are important again.
Any way to put the system on 1 year and not 365 days?
I already know this real time thumbshots, I whant a cached version, I am doing it manually now, saving the thumbshots on “/snapshot/â€
The idea to create your own snapshots is cool, probably you can do it without X front-end, the best scenario is some kind of graphic library that makes this with php and apache.
Previously I hadn't been able to find anything that'd run without X, but on further searching now http://www.boutell.com/webthumb/ looks promising. It does require "the Xvfb virtual framebuffer X server" but that's more reasonable than X itself. I'll play around with it.
but all it does is create an empty, 0 byte test.jpg.
Doesn't work from the shell either:
pgk@pgk-desktop:~$ perl webthumb http://www.boutell.com/ | pnmscale -xysize 100 100 | pnmtojpeg > thumb.jpg error opening security policy file /usr/lib/xserver/SecurityPolicy Could not init font path element /usr/share/fonts/X11/TTF/, removing from list! Could not init font path element /usr/share/fonts/X11/OTF, removing from list! Could not init font path element /usr/share/fonts/X11/CID/, removing from list! FreeFontPath: FPE "/usr/share/fonts/X11/misc/" refcount is 2, should be 1; fixin g. error opening security policy file /usr/lib/xserver/SecurityPolicy Could not init font path element /usr/share/fonts/X11/TTF/, removing from list! Could not init font path element /usr/share/fonts/X11/OTF, removing from list! Could not init font path element /usr/share/fonts/X11/CID/, removing from list! FreeFontPath: FPE "/usr/share/fonts/X11/misc/" refcount is 2, should be 1; fixin g. error opening security policy file /usr/lib/xserver/SecurityPolicy Could not init font path element /usr/share/fonts/X11/TTF/, removing from list! Could not init font path element /usr/share/fonts/X11/OTF, removing from list! Could not init font path element /usr/share/fonts/X11/CID/, removing from list! Xlib: extension "XInputExtension" missing on display ":2.0". Failed to get list of devices Error: No running window found. Error: Failed to send command: 509 internal error xwdtopnm: writing PPM file pgk@pgk-desktop:~$
I guess I'm doing something wrong.
Later edit: Got it working from the shell now, but it still doesn't work from PHP, and gives no error.
Hi, The migration makes some kind of error, the category lists on the submit and edit page don’t work anymore always shows “top level†you can see it at http://www.redpines.org/ Any ideas? Thanks
<?php $notypetotals = false; // make true if you have tens/hundreds of thousands of links in a category and want to speed things by not calculating the number of each type $overridesafety = true; // make true if you want to try to use the category selector on the suggest page with more than 400 categories $ignorepermissions = true; // use along with overridesafety to make the category list be a plain list allowing everyone to submit to any category... this should make a list of thousands work $dontcachesubcats = false; // make true for real-time calculation of subcategory data, at risk of turning server into smoldering pile of rubble $pathtoconfig = ''; // change if you place your config.php somewhere else ?>
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Hi,
I want to change one directory I have running phpld to wsn links there are some features I still didn’t manage to implement on WSN.
- I want the links to be inside the description, but I want it done automatically, a new field is added that asks the submitter for SEO the target keyword then the script pickup’s this word and replaces on the description with a live link automatically.
- I want rotating sitewide featured links on the footer.
- Is there any way to move categories and links database from phpld to WSN automatically?
Can anyone help?
Cheers
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1. What exactly does "inside the description" mean? A phrase in the description links to the url? I suppose you could add a link field phrase, then display the description using <?php echo str_replace('{LINKPHRASE}', '<a href="{LINKURL}">{LINKPHRASE}</a>', '{LINKDESCRIPTION}'); ?> though it might be better suited as a new function in classes/onelink.php, since the above will break when the description contains an '.
2. Use a toplist. If only certain links are featured, add a link field 'featured' and set the toplist to only show where featured='yes'
3. Not at present, but if someone would like to send me the phpld sql I'll have a look at adapting one of the existing sql importers to it.
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1. Working fine thanks
2. It as to be randon featured links, can you do a MOD to do this?
3. I already send you the SQL Dump
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2. Admin Panel -> Customizations -> Toplist Generator, select to sort by random order. If 'featured' is a link type rather than a new field, use the toplist condition type='featured'
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Looking good, randon featured links working now
How I truncate the descriptions on PHPLd I do like this.
{$link.DESCRIPTION|truncate:170}
Is there any variable that displays the total number of featured links a category as? And the total number of regular links?
How I put the featured links to subtract a value by year and not a value by day like the default.
How is the importer to phpld database coming along?
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See scripts.webmastersite.net/w...les/Link_Variables-10.html for link template variables, description is near the top.
Is there any variable that displays the total number of featured links a category as? And the total number of regular links?
See scripts.webmastersite.net/w...Category_Variables-11.html ("To show the total of each type within a category, use {REGULARTOTAL}, {OTHERTYPETOTAL} etc.")
How I put the featured links to subtract a value by year and not a value by day like the default.
If it's link type sponsorship that's an option on the sponsorship settings page.
The importer is complete: scripts.webmastersite.net/w...snlinks/?section=resources
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The script for migration from phpld works fine only one little bug, if the link is inactive or pending it shows as active on the migrated database.
I also see that WSN doesn’t use META Tags any special reason for this?, my opinion that they are real necessary for SEO.
I Searched and not found the year options for sponsored links, only the option to put 365 days comes to mind
At phpld I have a admin mod that fetches a snapshot from a online service (for example: http://www.webshotspro.com/ or other) for all the links and creates a local cache at /snapshot/{link-id}.gif is possible to do something similar on WSN.
Thanks for the fantastic support.
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Meta tags can be used, and there's a headers area for categories designed for them along with a spot in the admin panel for default meta tags. If you mean distinct meta tags for each link, that can be done with a custom field (I believe this is discussed in the intro manual pdf), though I don't see how meta tags are of much importance in this day and age.
The importer doesn't bring over phpld meta tags because they're in a different format (without the full <meta...> enclosure) which would've made it a pain to convert.
If you want to handle leap years you'll have to change to 366 every 4 years.
As for web thumbnails, you can use thumbshots.org though there's no local cache: scripts.webmastersite.net/w...tsorg_integration-217.html
If you have a dedicated server and good working knowledge with it, I have an option ready for WSN Links to create and cache its own web thumbnails (on linux servers) but I can't figure out how to let apache/php's user create an X-Windows session as is necessary to run gnome-web-photo. It would be nice to get that working. It also requires having X and GTK installed of course, but I was testing on my desktop where I know they work so the problem had to be with apache's user setup -- I know the shell command I was using was right too, because it works when I run it as my own user, just not run within PHP, where it returns "cannot open display: (null)".
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Google is using Meta-tags again for creating descriptions on the searches and for the duplicated content filter, so now they are important again.
Any way to put the system on 1 year and not 365 days?
I already know this real time thumbshots, I whant a cached version, I am doing it manually now, saving the thumbshots on “/snapshot/â€
The idea to create your own snapshots is cool, probably you can do it without X front-end, the best scenario is some kind of graphic library that makes this with php and apache.
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Previously I hadn't been able to find anything that'd run without X, but on further searching now http://www.boutell.com/webthumb/ looks promising. It does require "the Xvfb virtual framebuffer X server" but that's more reasonable than X itself. I'll play around with it.
Edit: No luck, I made a test file but all it does is create an empty, 0 byte test.jpg.
Doesn't work from the shell either:
I guess I'm doing something wrong.
Later edit: Got it working from the shell now, but it still doesn't work from PHP, and gives no error.
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Hi,
The migration makes some kind of error, the category lists on the submit and edit page don’t work anymore always shows “top level†you can see it at http://www.redpines.org/
Any ideas?
Thanks
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I want a simple scenario of regular permanent links ($30) and 1 year featured links ($50) how can I implement this easily?
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You have more than 400 categories, which is too many for the selector if you want to parse permissions: scripts.webmastersite.net/w...nally_Large_Sites-189.html
scripts.webmastersite.net/w.../Configuration/Sponsorship
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<?php
$notypetotals = false; // make true if you have tens/hundreds of thousands of links in a category and want to speed things by not calculating the number of each type
$overridesafety = true; // make true if you want to try to use the category selector on the suggest page with more than 400 categories
$ignorepermissions = true; // use along with overridesafety to make the category list be a plain list allowing everyone to submit to any category... this should make a list of thousands work
$dontcachesubcats = false; // make true for real-time calculation of subcategory data, at risk of turning server into smoldering pile of rubble
$pathtoconfig = ''; // change if you place your config.php somewhere else
?>
still same thing, only “top level†shows.
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Other strange thing going on,
If you go for example to http://www.redpines.org/Computers_and_Internet
Doesn’t show any subcategory :P
Also how I configure to have the trailing “/†at the end of url