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By ComradeBurnout on
I've been fighting with this off and on for a while now. I've looked through the existing modules, and none of them seem to fit my needs, so I started developing my own (which I plan to submit as a module once finished).
I need to automate the addition of user-submitted external links to a database. Essentially, I have 4 or 5 types initially, but it could be extended later. (For an example of what the base content looks like, please view: http://www.industrialnation.com/Bands/a.shtml )
I've looked at the weblinks module, and it has some of the functionality I need. The forum module (with comments) was initially my base for this new module, especially since forum.module allows categorization. ( I plan to have 'Bands', 'Labels', etc as the basis for the link pages. )
My initial development ( based on forum.module ) roughly works on the administrative side. I haven't been able to get any of the client side views working. Trying to display what would be an index page gives me "Page Not Found" errors with nothing in the error log to help debug the issue.
I'm thinking there's something obvious I'm missing ... or at least that's my hope. A few pointers would be appreciated. I can attach code if needed.
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you can assign categories to weblinks too.
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The future is so Bryght, I have to wear shades.
assigning categories
Well, I went back and re-enabled the weblink module, and it does look like the right thing. I might want to tweak the theming a bit, but that shouldn't be too hard.
One thing I have a problem with -- my forum vocabularies show up as categories for the weblink page. That's not good.
Half of these categories ( http://drupal.industrialnation.com/?q=weblink ) are forums, and I'm not clear on how they're being associated with weblinks.
i remember this bug.
Add a category?
play around with the categories a bit.
I have _no_ idea why this happens, but i ran into something similar almost a year ago.
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The future is so Bryght, I have to wear shades.
actually, it turned out that
actually, it turned out that my taxnonomy hadn't changed. i have it *almost* working now.
the only thing left is to debug an issue with the subcategories of menu disappearing when a customization i added kicks in.
rather than building 26 categories ( one for each letter of the alphabet ), i tweaked the _weblink_get_links() function to grab an arg out of the URL if it's there, and select only links w/ that first character. when those sub-categories are clicked, the sub-navigation goes *poof*. dunno why, but i'll get through it.