web links duplicate url listing

Posted: Wed Jul 05, 2006 6:26 pm

is there a way i can have a link in the Web Links module appear in more than one category? when i go to approve a listing that has already been approved for another category, i get the following error:

Quote:

ERROR: This URL is already listed in the Database!

thanks!

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That's a check to prevent duplicate links (some people would submit that hoping it would help their search engine rankings). You could remove that edit from the code...

Posted: Wed Jul 05, 2006 8:26 pm

any idea on how to go about that? Question

Posted: Wed Jul 05, 2006 8:29 pm

If you get the error message on the submit and want to allow it, look in the modules/Weblinks/index.php file and comment out the lines that perform the edit (you should be able to find the error message defined in a variable in the modules/Weblinks/language/lang-xxx.php file).

If you want to bypass the error message in the admin function, look at the modules/Weblinks/admin/index.php file for a similar error message.

Posted: Wed Jul 05, 2006 8:42 pm

i want it to LET me approve a link that is already part of the database. when i go comment the above out all it does is not show the error. it is still not letting me add/approve the web link that was submitted. any ideas?

Posted: Wed Jul 05, 2006 8:49 pm

Instead of getting the error message, what happens?

Posted: Wed Jul 05, 2006 8:54 pm

it shows "_ERRORURLEXIST" but doesn't show the text of "The URL already exists in the database".

This happens when i click "add" button the submitted URL in the admin panel.

How can i structure the Web Links module so that it doesn't check to see whether or not the URL is already in the database? is this in the language file too?

Posted: Wed Jul 05, 2006 9:01 pm

Sounds like you commented out the language definition, but not the edit in modules/Weblinks/admin/index.php

Posted: Wed Jul 05, 2006 9:08 pm

weird...i don't have an admin folder in my public_html/modules/Weblinks folder!

anywhere else it'd be?

Posted: Wed Jul 05, 2006 9:08 pm

Look in /modules/web_links/index.php. There you will find the function add. It checks to see if the url already exists and if so gives the message you see.

You could program web_links to circumvent this check. I couldn't guarantee whether this might cause problems elsewhere so you'd be advised to test it somewhere where users wouldn't be affected if it goes haywire.

Posted: Wed Jul 05, 2006 9:11 pm

If you're using PHP-Nuke prior to 7.5, it could be in the admin/modules/news.php or something like that.

Posted: Wed Jul 05, 2006 9:14 pm

i don't have a news.php under my admin/modules folder. Bang Head

Posted: Thu Jul 06, 2006 4:50 am

What version / distribution of PHP-Nuke are you using?

I gave you the wrong file name - sorry! It's admin/modules/links.php (I had news on the brain...).

Posted: Thu Jul 06, 2006 10:55 am

i think i am using 7.4 but don't know for sure....how can i tell?

Posted: Thu Jul 06, 2006 2:41 pm

If you see admin/modules/links.php, you'll know it's not 7.5 or higher.

Posted: Thu Jul 06, 2006 3:01 pm

yep, i do see it but don't know what to edit in links.php

Posted: Thu Jul 06, 2006 4:02 pm

Look for the code that generates the error message, and comment it out.