Messages posted by: Toysmith

I'd like to know the answers as well. I get duplicates also. Seems like it remembers the last entry and when you try to go to the admin page, it adds the last thing again. I have 6 entries for the same link.

This thing may be too flakey to deal with, but I haven't decided yet. Going to play with it more in the next few days.

The thing I missed was in the addlink.html file. There is a hardcoded path to http://www.localhost.com/cgi-bin/links.pl that needs to be changed to where you put your links.pl file.

I couldn't get mine running in the cgi-bin directory so I made a cgi-bin directory within the links directory.

all html files in www.domainname.com/links and the links.pl file in www.domainname.com/links/cgi-bin.

Lastly, you must change the permissions on the html files to allow read/write (666 as I recall) because the addlink.html opens and writes to the ffa-internet (or other) html files. It does NOT use a database.

Hope that helps. Seems like they never answer anything here and if we don't help each other, you won't get help here. I see old posts never answered. It is a shame because alot of work went into writing these, but most people cannot get them to work.

I am having trouble getting the Advanced Poll 2.03 working with forums from Simple Machines (www.simplemachines.org) using an include in the template to put the poll in a box on the side of the forums. It seems to be feeding the wrong data. The best thing I can do is show you what I posted to the SMF forums.

My post to SMF forums:
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Hi gang,
I'm not sure exactly what to do here but I think I have a problem with a 3rd party PHP app interacting with the forum when I don't want it to. The 3rd party app is a PHP daily poll called Advanced Poll 2.03 (found at http://www.proxy2.de/) which turns out to have a very large number of files so figuring out where the problem is will take me some time if it is an issue with both using the same variable names, etc as the SMF forums.

I was kind of hoping for some advice from someone here who may have crossed this bridge already though because it may just be how I've integrated it.

Ok, first lets take a peek at two things so you can get the picture of what is going on, and before you ask, I am not logged into the forums and am a random visitor for all the following.

1) http://www.gamedemand.com/forum/index.php shows my forums under development (hope you like the design). Take note of the "daily poll" feature in the left column. This is a php include to a 2nd php component that is in turn included into the forum template to "tack on" the left column. Basically the same type of approach as SMF appears to be using in their forums here. The poll doesn't look right, especially that it is missing the vote button (the little square is all that is left) and the "results" link. You can see how it is supposed to look in the next link.

2) http://www.gamedemand.com/templates/left_column.php shows just the left column NOT interacting with the forum engine. As you can see the poll feature works now.

3) A simpler example of this call without all the graphics is http://www.gamedemand.com/templates/comm_nav_poll.php which is a basic php file calling a couple of include once statements.

Peeking at the client side results (relevant portions only) from the left column by itself shows:

Peeking at the client side results (relevant portions only) from the left column once included within the forums shows that what is being fed to the script is now different:

I have tried moving the first include_once statement to the forum template, then call the 2nd statement from my left_column, among some other simple things to make sure whether things had to be within the <head><body><html> etc but nothing changes the results, so obviously it has something to do with including all this within the forum template. If I've thought this through properly, it seems to me that by including it within the forum template, I've sort of bestowed "ownership" of this left_column to the forums which is why it is now subject to the rules of SMF.

Hopefully this is clear enough and has enough detail. If it does not, reply and I'll get what you need to see the whole picture. I could really use the advice of someone more experienced on how I might resolve this problem. Thanks for your time.

After much effort I've gotten the links script up and running, but what I don't have is any users guide for the admin mode. One of the problems I encountered on adding links during my installation testing was that I got 6 copies of the same link and now I want to delete them.

I cannot figure out how to do it from within the admin tool from the way it is designed.

Is there a help file or user guide for the links page script?