SMF Links

[ApplianceJunk]

Would you prefer links to have sortable columns rather than the ability to move a link up or down?

How about both options?

Alphabetical order works for me.

[faldegort]

how can I make subcategories  to not appear in the main category list??
thanks for this great mod!

[Matthew K.]

how can I make subcategories  to not appear in the main category list??
thanks for this great mod!

Hey there faldegort! Are you not wanting to show children categories at all? Or just a specific categor(y|ies)?

[pols1337]

Hello Joel!

Thank you for stopping by and providing your opinion, it's definitely appreciated. Would you prefer links to have sortable columns rather than the ability to move a link up or down?

@Labradoodle

Yes, sortable columns would be great.  I have Aeva Media installed, and I like how they allow sortable columns for files but in the settings it sets a "default" sort. 

At the very least, alphabetical ordering would be nice.  It's just so awkward to see links listed in a crazy order ... 

[Matthew K.]

I've been crazily busy lately with a ton of updates to work on, but I've made a TON of progress on the next version which will be SMF Links 3.0. Almost a complete rewrite with an insanely big changelog.

Feel free to follow us on Facebook and Twitter to get previews and more notifications as we go: http://www.facebook.com/smfhacks

[Antechinus]

I would prefer to link directly to the website.  this is the code that is used by default.  How can I change it so the href is the link value? 

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<a href="' . $scripturl . '?action=links;sa=visit&id=' . $row['ID_LINK'] . '" target="blank">' . $row['title'] . '</a>

This might work
<a href="' . $row['link'] . '" target="blank">' . $row['title'] . '</a>

It doesn't. TBH it would be better practice to link directly to the correct url. For one thing, the syntax currently used will throw a validation error for each link. Not a huige deal, but annoying. However, it is polite, if nothing else, to allow people to see where they are heading before they click a link. Masking destinations isn't really cool IMO.

It would also be great to haul the markup for function ShowSubCats out of Sources and into the template where it belongs. I've just been trying to get this mod looking decent for a custom theme and it is not fun. Once I have the markup and css sorted I'll release it for anyone who wants to use it.

[Arantor]

But one of the perks of 'masking' links is to be able to see how many people leave to that link, without that it is potentially less useful.

[Antechinus]

Well honestly a lot of sites wont care. It depends what you are using the links directory for. If you are wanting to see how many people download something, or visit your favourite game site, or whatever then you may care about such stats.

OTOH if, like the sites I am working on, you only want to provide links to useful external support resources for anyone in the world, you wont give a damn about counting chickens. You probably will care that your members and guests can see where they are being shunted before shunting occurs. Most security minded people do like to know where they are about to go before they click a link.

The sites I'm working on will be running with the link stats disabled anyway.

[Matthew K.]

The reason that it "masks" the URL is so that the request is passed through a processing function to count how many times it's been clicked.

Furthermore, I am close to finishing a new version (SMF Links 3.0) which will contain a crazy amount of updates.

[Antechinus]

Yeah I get that about the counting. Would be cool to have the option of counting or raw url, but not a huge deal.

[MiY4Gi]

This sounds like just what I need. Also, when you release v3.0 you may want to upload new (or more) screenshots to the mod page, coz currently there's only one.

Are there any recent demo's of this mod?

[Matthew K.]

This sounds like just what I need. Also, when you release v3.0 you may want to upload new (or more) screenshots to the mod page, coz currently there's only one.

Are there any recent demo's of this mod?

I'll definitely add new updated screenshots.

And I do not believe there are currently any available demo's of this.

[MiY4Gi]

I've been wondering. Say I have a direct download link, but I connect to the link via this mod, since the mod uses URL masking, would users still be able to obtain the actual URL link? I'm looking for a way to hide direct download links (DDL's) from users. I've been considering using a BBCode that I could wrap around links to mask them, but maybe this mod does something similar.

[Matthew K.]

The URL is displayed in the table. I'll do my best to add some more options for whether the URL should show or not, and whether or not there should be a mask or not, and if there's a mask the URL field would be hidden.

[Gaza07]

Any news on the release of v3 yet 

[Matthew K.]

Am waiting to discuss future programming opportunities with vbgamer45 and he's not yet gotten back to me.

[Gaza07]

Thanks for your very quick reply 

[pols1337]

Good luck on the progress for SMF Links 3.0.  Many of us are waiting for the new release 

[ApplianceJunk]

The reason that it "masks" the URL is so that the request is passed through a processing function to count how many times it's been clicked.

Furthermore, I am close to finishing a new version (SMF Links 3.0) which will contain a crazy amount of updates.

Anything new happening with this?

[vbgamer45]

On hold at the moment.