By rhoare on

Is anybody using the Weblink module, successfully?

I can get it to create and display link entries, for any of the terms within a vocabulary, where the terms parents are root (i.e. first level). This bit works.

It'll also let me create links at a lower level in the vocabulary (i.e. for terms where the parent is another term, to any number of levels), and it counts these links as part of the total number of links. BUT I can't find any way to see these links (within the links option, they appear on the first page). Do the (effectively) sub-categories have to be set up manually somewhere?

To clarify, when trying to set up a (small) Yahoo-like structure of links, only links at the first level are visible follwing "links" from the menu, there's no way to drill down.

Finally, although there is an admin link when the link is displayed on the first page, there's no admin link when following the "links" link. How would I update an old link that is no longer visible? (presumably I could search for it, but I would have though an admin link within the links pages would be the logical place).

The weblink module looks interesting, but clearly I'm doing something wrong, or just misunderstanding what it can do.

I'm using Drupal 4.1.0 rc, MySQL 4.07, PHP 4.2.3, Weblink 1.10.

Rob

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rhoare commented

Oops, I've now found a bit in the Weblink changelog for last april that says

"one step closer to a full directory system
(doesn't support having > 1 vocabulary or vocabularies with terms deeper than 1 level, yet)"

Since nothing happened to this module after May last year, it looks like it's been abandoned at that point, and doesn't support multiple levels.

Are there any other link-hierarchy modules for Drupal, or some new technique of using nodes/books etc that has the same effect? I might look at adding support for more levels to Weblinks, but not if a better alternative already exists.

Rob

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moshe weitzman commented

the taxonomy_dhtml module handles multilpe levels. As you traverse down, you see node titles. I think this would be a good model for an enhanced weblinks.module

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LynnS commented

It's temporary but it does clean things up a bit: I just took out the link counts in weblink.module. You can't see how many links are in each section, but then people don't walk away thinking there's nothing when in fact there are subsections packed with links. I'm not good enough to address the underlying problem! :)

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marco commented

check the weblink module in the cvs, it's 1.20 and was last updated in October

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Marco

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rhoare commented

Thanks, I wasn't aware that the versions of the external modules on the download page were so out of date, I thought they would be updated as new versions of Drupal was released.

That version works much better, seems to be unlimited hierarchies and multiple vocabularies (although still no admin functions from within the links display).

I've just noticed that when searching and a weblink entry is found, the result is displayed as a story, without the external link, which seems a bit pointless. I'll check for a later version of the search that is hopefully weblink-aware...

Rob

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Mike@frazierhome.net commented

Ok, I have a Drupal 4.1.0 install running, and put the weblink.module on that comes from the downloads page. I now see there are newer versions, but don't know which will work with a current 4.1.0 install.

I put the 1.20 verision of weblink.module on my site, and this seems to work fine (and fixes bugs I was seeing) except when I click on the Links link at the top of the page I get this error 5 times (I have 5 taxonomy items for teh Link vocab):

warning: Illegal offset type in /home/frazierm/public_html/modules/taxonomy.module on line 462.

There doesn't seem to be any other side effects, and clicking on the specific taxonomy or weblinks under the top Link level works fine (no errors)

Any ideas?

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LynnS commented

I get create weblink in my menu, but regular users do not. I want them to have it. What do I have set wrong? I've gone over everything and it seems fine so I'm obviously missing something.