From: Laura (address redacted) (pingVision)
To: Syscrusher (address redacted)
Date: 2005-12-08 12:56

Dear Scott,

Thanks for the thorough reply! And I am glad to read of the plans for
this module.

Will this module generate blocks that serve as real blogrolls? As it is,
I'm going to be hacking a php snippet to do this, as such:

Bob's Blog [info]
Jane's blog [info]

Where the descriptive link goes straight to the website, and the info
link goes to the weblink node.

What's more, I'm creating these by category, with a block for links
relating to A, a block for links relating to B, and so on.

If you can, or already plan to, incorporate this into the module, then
by gum you will have built a full-featured blogroll module that would be
the envy of the world.

Anyway, that's my humble suggestion. I've not had time to get my CVS
account working, but I'll be watching your module and trying it out as
soon as I have a site updated to 4.7.

Best,
Laura

Comments

Bèr Kessels’s picture

Bèr Kessels commented

This can (and should, imo) be done with a really small module that uses hook_user to find this data in the users profile.

Hell, ld it not be great to automatically track all RSS feeds from users, for example.
For 4.7 I have this in mind for naggregator, though. By moving that to the links APIs we can re-use any feeds drupalwide. wohoo, for standardisation.

eaton’s picture

eaton commented

Indeed...

This is what I've been thinking about. I posted some patches to blogroll.module a while back to bring it up to date with 4.7, but I'd like to see it use the links infrastructure. Hooking it onto the user profile makes a lot of sense.

syscrusher’s picture

syscrusher commented

Hi, folks.

Just wanted to let you know, I'm fighting a major problem with a production server. It may be another day or two before I get time to work on Drupal code, but I wanted to let you know I haven't vanished.

Scott (syscrusher)

boris mann’s picture

boris mann commented

The blocks could be created with views.module I think.

And, of course, the problem with this is that you have to manually maintain this, with no OPML import or synching.

I wish I could hit a "sync" button on my desktop aggregator and magically have it sync up with a blogroll on my Drupal site. Either links or aggregator are the two logical places for this functionality to live (or, yes, in a small helper module).