Links added!
Sun, 02/04/2007 - 2:42pm — Nick
More bitching! Yay!
This time, its about the lack of a web-links package that can create blocks for Drupal 5! Ok, so this not a problem with Drupal at all; I'm just annoyed.
Well, I've simply created a couple of blocks containing the links I want to add in an unordered list. Later on, I might see if I can use the API from the Links Package to organize links.
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interesting
interesting concept, moderating links as modules. could you explain how something like that works in practice? do you have a call function to reference a link? does this help you manage links, and look for dead links and such? if so, how? the documentation for drupal modules is often lacking, and without an example or illustration it's often hard to tell if a specific module is something I could use on my own site.
It's treating links as
It's treating links as nodes, basically. Drupal 4.7 had the weblinks module which let you organize links into categories, write descriptions for each one, and provided a nice little block for each category that I could use for a links roll on my anime webpage (On the right sidebar towards the bottom, the sections "My Other Sites and Weblogs", "Anime", "Anime Fans", and "Anime Reviewers" are handled and organized by the weblinks module). It also provides all of the links in a nice hierarchied links page as could be seen by clicking on the "Links" tab on my weblog.
Unfortunately, it doesn't search for dead links and it's not at all available for Drupal 5 yet.
It looked like the Links Package that I've mentioned does seem to have a weblinks-type page, but it doesn't provide the blocks that I'm looking for. I was going to try my hand on creating my own blocks that would provide the same function sometime later. If I create it, I'll be sure to post the code on here.
That's if either of the links projects don't provide it first for Drupal 5, though.
Update: Actually, I might be able to use the Views Module to create the blocks like I wanted. I'll have to experiment with that later.