Guest Posted September 16, 2005 Share Posted September 16, 2005 thank you, that worked. :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted September 20, 2005 Share Posted September 20, 2005 In Links Manager, in the admin, under "Options" what does "rating" mean (what numbers do you put in there and why)? Also, is there a way to put the links in a chosen order (e.g., alphabetical) on a site? Thanks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Top_Speed Posted September 20, 2005 Share Posted September 20, 2005 Hi, That is pretty much for the google PR (page rank) of a site. It helps know basically how valuable the link is to you. The link listing is already in alphabetical order, with numeric URL's listed 1st. KJ Quote define('PROJECTS', 'Something that goes on forever!'); Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted September 20, 2005 Share Posted September 20, 2005 Thanks for the explanation about the rating. The link listing is alphabetical in admin, but not on my site. That's really what I'm looking for. A way to have links listed alphabetically on my site. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NerioDavid Posted October 29, 2005 Share Posted October 29, 2005 Hi, I don't know if you are the author of the contrib "Links Manager". I love this contrib, but I have a single question: The links, which I mean the urls used to link to the added sites, was made up by a redirect, i.e. use the "goto" method. But this is a problem when I come to several links exchange service sites, e.g. www.linkmetro.com, many of these sites don't recognize the "goto" url. So, I just want to ask, can we change the url to a standard static url way? Thanks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jack_mcs Posted October 29, 2005 Share Posted October 29, 2005 Thanks for the explanation about the rating. The link listing is alphabetical in admin, but not on my site. That's really what I'm looking for. A way to have links listed alphabetically on my site. They display sorted properly on my site. Does the sorting work when you click on a column heading? Jack Quote Support Links: For Hire: Contact me for anything you need help with for your shop: upgrading, hosting, repairs, code written, etc. All of My Addons Get the latest versions of my addons Recommended SEO Addons Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Top_Speed Posted October 29, 2005 Share Posted October 29, 2005 Hi, I don't know if you are the author of the contrib "Links Manager". I love this contrib, but I have a single question: The links, which I mean the urls used to link to the added sites, was made up by a redirect, i.e. use the "goto" method. But this is a problem when I come to several links exchange service sites, e.g. www.linkmetro.com, many of these sites don't recognize the "goto" url. So, I just want to ask, can we change the url to a standard static url way? Thanks. Just go into your admin > config > links Get rid of the redirect for the links (anotherwords you won't use the click count, the URL's will point to the real URL's) Click Count False Spider Friendly Links True -KJ Quote define('PROJECTS', 'Something that goes on forever!'); Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NerioDavid Posted November 12, 2005 Share Posted November 12, 2005 Hi, I just want to know, if the links manager contrib can work together with SEO URLs contrib? How can I convert the urls generated by links manage to the form of search engine friendly, i.e., without the "?" marks and show the links of the websites directly in the Title's urls instead use "goto"? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted December 16, 2005 Share Posted December 16, 2005 To NerioDavid turn on the search engine friendly url (still in development) set it to true and you will have seo friendly links pages urls Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted December 16, 2005 Share Posted December 16, 2005 many languages in the admin have the status have the status blank! what can i do? anyone knows? In the admin on the left hand side under Links Manager there should beLinks Links Categories Links Contact Select Links you should see the link, select edit and at the bottom of the section that has just opened you will see Options with Status as a pull down menu, select Approved and then click the button update, this will set the link as approved so that it will show up in the catalog Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jack_mcs Posted December 16, 2005 Share Posted December 16, 2005 To NerioDavid turn on the search engine friendly url (still in development) set it to true and you will have seo friendly links pages urls This doesn't work for the majority of the shops and should not be enabled. Jack Quote Support Links: For Hire: Contact me for anything you need help with for your shop: upgrading, hosting, repairs, code written, etc. All of My Addons Get the latest versions of my addons Recommended SEO Addons Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jack_mcs Posted December 16, 2005 Share Posted December 16, 2005 many languages in the admin have the status have the status blank!what can i do? anyone knows? See the Update Changes in the Update Dosc directory. There are some databases changes that you may not have. Jack Quote Support Links: For Hire: Contact me for anything you need help with for your shop: upgrading, hosting, repairs, code written, etc. All of My Addons Get the latest versions of my addons Recommended SEO Addons Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hugoboss Posted December 16, 2005 Share Posted December 16, 2005 Hello, Talking about languages: Is the french version available somewhere???? Even partially ?? I will complete it or have to translate all.. Is this the correct thread to pose aditional questions? TIA Hugo Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jack_mcs Posted December 17, 2005 Share Posted December 17, 2005 There's not one availabel that I know of. But all that is needed is for the english text files to be copied and translated. There is no additional install required. Jack Quote Support Links: For Hire: Contact me for anything you need help with for your shop: upgrading, hosting, repairs, code written, etc. All of My Addons Get the latest versions of my addons Recommended SEO Addons Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Viper0409 Posted December 22, 2005 Share Posted December 22, 2005 (edited) Hi I have recently installed Links Manager 1.10 and have searched the forums for the answer to my question, but so far no luck. The problem I have is basically, when I click on Link Manager in Admin, I get an error 500 page. Everything seems to be installed correctly and links diplays correctly except that when I click on links on the main page, it tells me that "there are no categories yet" or similar text. Also, if I try to add a link, where the field is to fill in the category, is only 1 character wide and blank. So, it seems as if I am having some sort of a database error or a file permissions error but I am not sure where exactly my problem lies. I would be grateful for any guidance on this problem, does anyone have any ideas for a fix ? cheers Viper Edited December 22, 2005 by Viper0409 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jack_mcs Posted December 22, 2005 Share Posted December 22, 2005 Did you create at least one category? Jack Quote Support Links: For Hire: Contact me for anything you need help with for your shop: upgrading, hosting, repairs, code written, etc. All of My Addons Get the latest versions of my addons Recommended SEO Addons Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Viper0409 Posted December 22, 2005 Share Posted December 22, 2005 Did you create at least one category? Jack Hi Jack I am not sure what you mean, but I don't have any options in Links Manager via my admin to create any categories or links. When I click on Links Manager in Admin, I get taken to the server error 500 so I cannot actually create any categories. Apart from not being able to access Links Manager in Admin, everything else seems ok. In Admin > Configuration > links, everything is fine but as I said above in Admin > Link Manager there are no options to set and it throws the error 500 page. Hope this helps clarify Jack, if you need any more info, Post here and I should be around the forums checking out other posts in other threads. cheers Viper Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jack_mcs Posted December 22, 2005 Share Posted December 22, 2005 OK, I misunderstood your post before. If the rest of admin is working, then there must be some setting on your server that is failing due to the code in Links Manager. So you will need to contact your host and ask them why it is failing. Jack Quote Support Links: For Hire: Contact me for anything you need help with for your shop: upgrading, hosting, repairs, code written, etc. All of My Addons Get the latest versions of my addons Recommended SEO Addons Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Viper0409 Posted December 23, 2005 Share Posted December 23, 2005 OK, I misunderstood your post before. If the rest of admin is working, then there must be some setting on your server that is failing due to the code in Links Manager. So you will need to contact your host and ask them why it is failing. Jack Hi Jack Thanks for your reply, I will give my host a try, but doubt that they would be able to assist. On previous attempts for for their assistance (at least 7 times) for various unrelated matters, I was basically left to my own devices to solve the problem. They were of no assistance at all, and I will be changing over host's when my contract expires. One of my first questions to them was about protecting the admin folder via their cpanel, their response was "We do not provide support for osCommerce", so basically I had to work out my own way to do it. no thanks to them. Mind you, they do install osCommerce for their customers for a price, so I guess their reasons were financial. Anyway, getting back to the point here, I am surprised that no-one has come across this problem yet, I suspect that it may be a database problem but I am not real sure how to go about tracking where the problem lies. Any other ideas ? If anyone would like to take a shot at this I would be grateful. In the meantime, I will give my hosts another call (don't like my chances) and see if I can get even a snippet of info from them. Cheers Viper Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jack_mcs Posted December 23, 2005 Share Posted December 23, 2005 The 500 error can indicate a number of different things. It is a "catch-all" error that is displayed when some error occurs that doesn't have a specific error page. For example, it can be a security violation (or a perceived one) or a resource limit violation. But whatever it is, it is a problem only your host can resolve since the log of the failure is only available to them, in most cases. So they are the only ones that can help you. You could try removing parts of the code in Links Manager until the problem goes away to find the code causing the problem. But even if oyu found it, you would probabl still need your hosts support to fix it. Jack Quote Support Links: For Hire: Contact me for anything you need help with for your shop: upgrading, hosting, repairs, code written, etc. All of My Addons Get the latest versions of my addons Recommended SEO Addons Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Viper0409 Posted December 23, 2005 Share Posted December 23, 2005 The 500 error can indicate a number of different things. It is a "catch-all" error that is displayed when some error occurs that doesn't have a specific error page. For example, it can be a security violation (or a perceived one) or a resource limit violation. But whatever it is, it is a problem only your host can resolve since the log of the failure is only available to them, in most cases. So they are the only ones that can help you. You could try removing parts of the code in Links Manager until the problem goes away to find the code causing the problem. But even if oyu found it, you would probabl still need your hosts support to fix it. Jack Hi again Jack Thank you for your detailed reply, I haven't had time to call my host yet but I will first thing in the morning and hopefully they can clarify things for me. I will post here if I find out what the problem is, for the benefit of other members who may have similar problems. regards Viper Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Viper0409 Posted December 24, 2005 Share Posted December 24, 2005 Hi again Jack Thank you for your detailed reply, I haven't had time to call my host yet but I will first thing in the morning and hopefully they can clarify things for me. I will post here if I find out what the problem is, for the benefit of other members who may have similar problems. regards Viper Hi again This is an update, I emailed and called my host again, and got the standard response apart from a couple of clues. This was their response and btw, they didn't return my call. Hello If you have installed additional add-on's onto the Oscommerce we do not support this. But you need to make sure you have: 1) Uploaded in ASCII format and not in "Binary" 2) The permissions are set correctly to 755 3) and if those two are correct then there is an issue with the script itself. Actually, my links manager files are all set by default to 644, so I will change them all to 755 and see if that makes a difference. Then I will check if my files were uploaded in ASCII format, but, how would I check that. Is there a way to find out ? I use WS FTP. I am pretty sure this auto detects which format to upload in. If anyone has any clues please let me know. Cheers Viper Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jack_mcs Posted December 24, 2005 Share Posted December 24, 2005 Changing the permissions shouldn't have any effect since the files are not written to. Text files (html and php) should be uploaded in ascii and images in binary (in general). Open your ftp program and look at the options or preferences settings. Change them to auto mode and upload the files again. My guess is that the program is already set that way and it won't make any difference. Jack Quote Support Links: For Hire: Contact me for anything you need help with for your shop: upgrading, hosting, repairs, code written, etc. All of My Addons Get the latest versions of my addons Recommended SEO Addons Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Viper0409 Posted December 26, 2005 Share Posted December 26, 2005 Hi All and Merry Xmas Back after a little Xmas break. Jack, yep you are right. I changed permissions on all files and this made no difference, so I checked all my files and they were uploaded using WS FTP Pro, which uploads all files in binary, except files which are in a list which includes PHP file extensions. So I guess the problem is in the script according to the hosts reply, but I doubt that this is the case. I can see from other members who have posted in this thread that they have had some gliches but seemed to have overcome those problems. I am still stuck with the same problem, and am seriously thinking of giving up unless I can get some help to trace the problem, Hosts don't seem at all interested, so I guess this forum is my only source of help. Getting back to the problem, when I access my admin panel, and click Links Manager this is what I get. The page cannot be displayed There is a problem with the page you are trying to reach and it cannot be displayed. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Please try the following: Open the ***.**.***.** home page, and then look for links to the information you want. Click the Refresh button, or try again later. Click Search to look for information on the Internet. You can also see a list of related sites. HTTP 500 - Internal server error Internet Explorer I have checked, double checked and triple checked all my file additions and file edits, but still have the same error. I have changed the file permissions to 755 and still not good, so I changed them back to 644. Any other suggestions from anyone ? Cheers Viper Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jack_mcs Posted December 26, 2005 Share Posted December 26, 2005 You could try another ftp program. Since the problem only happens with Links Manager, make a copy of another file, say customers.php and name it links.php, replacing the real links.php. Does the page load correctly when you click on Links Manager in admin or do you still get the 500 error? Try clicking into the url string and erasing everything after admin/, then type in link_categories.php and press enter. This should load a different page of Links Manager. Does it work? By doing the above, you should be able to isolate the problem down to a file(s). Jack Quote Support Links: For Hire: Contact me for anything you need help with for your shop: upgrading, hosting, repairs, code written, etc. All of My Addons Get the latest versions of my addons Recommended SEO Addons Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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