Newbie wants a directory from list of bookmarks

[Newman]

Hi!

I'm brand new to the forum and the world of directories. My website has been around awhile and I've always maintained a list of bookmarks about my subject, which is Alaska travel.

What I'm hoping to do is use PHP LD to categorize and display those bookmarks.

Is there a way to import a list of bookmarks ( a huge <dl> ) into php ld? Is it easier that sitting down and doing each by hand?

Any help would be greatly appreciated. The site and bookmarks are located here: http://www.alaskagold.com/blog/alaskabookmarks.html

many thanks,
nsl

[Boby]

Hello and welcome!

I don't think there is any module to import from bookmarks :(
Sorry!

I think the fasted method in this case is to manually add the links.

Boby

[arindra]

PM bobby (http://www.phplinkdirectory.com/forum/member.php?find=lastposter&t=1611)

and start praying that it interests him enuf :P

[Newman]

Thanks for the reply. Manual submission would be EASY to do, but very painstaking - that is long and boring...

What about filling the MySQL database directly with some sort of script?

What would it cost to hire a person to help manual submission? The saying goes - "Many hand make light work"

[bobby9101]

thanks for the plug arinda :)
the problem is i would charge a heck of a lot of money to import 500+ bookmarks.
i usually charge 25/30 and hour for work
but i can be nice to some people ;)

[arindra]

Content visible to registered users only. anytime ... just add one of my sites as a featured site if u get money from the client :D :p

[anon]

it would take me a couple of hours to get it parse and into the db

[Newman]

I have over 1200 (1233) bookmark / links for Alaska. That's pretty crazy:eek:. NO WAY BY HAND!

I pm'ed Anon.

I want it to work. I really think it would be perfect for my site.

cheers,
nsl

[bobby9101]

but how is it going to gather descriptions?

[Newman]

Hey Bobby,

I think it could be scripted with a GREP search to take the text file and make it a csv 'database' - from there it could go anywhere, right? I think that's what anon means by parse.

I need to find a 'parse king', because I am only a parse squire!

[bobby9101]

i am a parse nada

i still don't understand how you are going to get descriptions?
bookmarks dot have descriptions that i know of

[Boby]

@ Newman
Would you be interested in a small mod that will automatically add the links (URL+title+description) for a small donation? Let's say $10.

The only problem is you can add them first to only one category, the rest must be done by hand.

Boby

[anon]

Take Boby up on his offer.

[Newman]

@Boby

Thanks so much for the offer. Let's do it. I'll PM you.

[Boby]

The script is ready and I've sent it to Newman.
Hope he likes it and it workes as well as it works for me.

It turned out to be nice, I like it and I think I will expand it some day to import bookmarks from Firefox/Mozilla and Opera into the phpLD DB. But ... only some day :)

I just want to show you all a screenshot ... or maybe two ;) I'm a bit happy

This is the starting page:
Content visible to registered users only.

And here it's importing the links, green bg means successfull, red means an error (luckily it has no errors to show :cool: )
Content visible to registered users only.

Boby

[anon]

nice Boby!

[Newman]

It's really great: simple, gets the job done.

Great work, Boby! Thank you so much!