Finding an existing link

[Spiderman32]

Am I missing something? There seems to be no way of searching for an existing link in order to edit it.

[Jim_Westergren]

I know, it is a major bug.

I usually sort the links by URL and then I go and paste the following URL:

{admin link removed} (this number you have to guess on until you hit near it in the alphabet).

[Spiderman32]

That's really bad, I'm experimenting in building a site where I'm adding most of the sites myself to begin with. I'm starting with loading a base set of link from DMOZ. Then I'm manually adding. If I can't edit that list easily thats a real pain.

The only way I see is going into phpMyAdmin and putting in a query e.g.

SELECT * FROM `PLD_LINK` WHERE URL LIKE 'http://www.geocities.com%'

looking at the ID value e.g. 7992 and then entering

http://www.my.com/admin/dir_links_edit.php?action=E:7992

I don't know enough PHP to make an interactive form, but it would be nifty if the above could be embedded in a msall php procedure.

[vkaryl]

I go into admin and change the number of links displayed to a number greater than I know I have; then I change to the links page and use CTRL F in my browser, inputting whatever parameters I might need in the search field to narrow the search for a particular link whether it's part of the title or part of the url.

You can also do this with links paginated, though it takes more time in the long run than just waiting for all the links to load into one page (and actually if you have thousands of links, you probably want to limit the link display to not more than a couple hundred a page, in which case you would have to move from page to page and repeat the search).

[logged]

This works too:

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&safe=off&rls=GGGL%2CGGGL%3A2005-09%2CGGGL%3Aen&q=site%3Awww.addurl-free.com+JUVIO&btnG=Search

;)

[Jim_Westergren]

Yes, but you cannot edit the links with Google :)

A search should be made in the admin, to easy find the links.

[logged]

:lol: sure you cant, but atleast it tells you where's your link (at the bottom of the search> yoursite.com/category) ...

[richm]

The search feature on the front end works great. It would be nice if it were implemented in the back end.

As an easy alternative, I am working on a MOD to put an EDIT button next to all links if you are looking at the site from the approved Editor IP address. It still requires a login, but my early tests worked well.

I created this mod because I often find errors while viewing and searching my own site, and because of the emails I get asking me to change something in a listing (often with little info to go on).

The first draft of my mod is in the Mod Requests section at:
{url not resolving}

[Ap0s7le]

The search will be in the next release, so no worries.

Also, the Edit button next to every link once a user is logged in will prob be as well. That one is already done, it's just not in a official release. Once I get home I'll post it up on the PHPLD section of my site.

later

-Casey