By celticess on
work to act as a webring hub page? I'm listed at webring.com in a few of their rings. Their recient problems are making me pull my site from their listings. It's not so much the problems though they are irritating but the attitude of the techs.
Anyways I'd like to create a ring or two of my own and wondered if drupal can deal with that or if I'd have to go to some different ring site.
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Interesting idea - webring module
seems like we could make a webring hub module as an extension to the drupal module. One server would be the hub and each server that pinged it would get the code to the next and previous sites in the ring. You could get real fancy with the logic and do some sort of recombinatory load balancing so that all sites in the ring get equal referrer traffic (not just the previous and next sites to the most popular site). I'm sure this would become a popular module.
- Robert Douglass
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Well you know I was already wondering
If there was a ring for drupal owners. For various reasons I perfer to not have my site indexed by a search engine. I perfer the control of selectively listing it and giving people the option to search like sites.
I have seen cgi packages to make webrings. So I figured it must be possible to do one in drupal. But I didn't know if any of the current modules could be used in this way. I know there is some sort of associate module and one to I think suggest people your site. This would just take it a little further. But there is one thing I'd like it to have that posed a problem in the other webring system. Simple ability for the site in the ring to be able to set their font colour or background colour for their ring display. Typically I go with dark sites and way around this was to set a white background and put the ring code into a table. However then flip side problem of rings with only a light coloured font. Darn thing had no way to override it really so at least one ring always had some issue in display. Allowing those two simple adjustments for people that are part of a ring helps them keep the look reasonable on their site instead of being visual yuck.
How to do it
If you're a coder or know someone who would be willing to help you on this you would want to start by looking at the drupal.module which is in the default installation. You would want to make the response to the directory server ping give back some information about what two (previous and next) sites the pinging server should link to. How you determine these is an open question as is how you theme the link. Maybe the easiest way is just to have a hyperlink to each site? That way your site could decide how to show them and there would be no problem with the links breaking your design.
One positive thing from this that I haven't seen in any webring is that all of the sites in the ring could share Drupal's distributed authentication system (meaning members on one of the sites could log on to all of the sites using one username and password)
- Robert Douglass
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Unfortunately I'm not a coder
Well not anymore. When I was one I was using pascal, fortran, apple basic, and cobol. Many many years ago. :)
I may try to look in the module and see how it works but I'm too busy with offline life right now. Also the learning curve might be steep as I'm not fully literate in php and as mentioned haven't coded anything in ages. Last time I did something that way was maximumus 3.01 BBS mexx language in 1994 trying to make it look/behave like RA5.
Does anyone know if any work
Does anyone know if any work has been done on this? If not I may need to role up my sleves and get coding.
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- Robert Douglass
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Requests
Are there any requests for featuers of a Web Ring module?
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Webring module development
This would be a great addition to Drupal. A hub page for joining and reviewing sites, and also a way to make a feed out of the member's links, so these could be posted on members sites as well.