[WEB4LIB] Re: Link Managment tool

[Peter Verhagen]

On a side note, I wrote an unfinished link management tool I called 
ASPLinks, written in classic VB (not .net) and uses interbase 6/firebird 
as its database (great for Dynix IPAC/HIP sites that run on Windows).  
Supports click-thru tracking, 5 count link voyeur, top 5 click thus 
list, total number of links/categories, in-form upload of link 
icon/image/graphic, web page script execution timing, web-based database 
builder, and link annotation/descriptions.

Client side demonstration is here:
http://www.sapl.ab.ca/links/index.asp

The bad news is that the search feature is not finished, doesn't permit 
same link in different categories (yet), needs better theme integration 
and handling, I have yet to store the image/icon/graphic into the 
database (currently anonymous upload permissions req. on a directory), 
database has to be created by hand/command line (but the tables, 
triggers and updates are built from an web based install script),  I 
have yet to re-write the link counts so that it doesn't take up much 
room, and index.asp page is quite messy. In other words, there is quite 
alot yet to be done.

If anyone has an interest in improving on this project, I wouldn't mind 
starting up a sourceforge project site and doing some colaberative work. 
Email me privately if interested in either the source or joint project 
development..

Cheers,
Peter Verhagen

Edward Spodick wrote:

>At 9:35 AM -0800 18/11/2004, kevin smith wrote:
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>>What I would like to be able to do is have a page of  categories and
>>subcategories with dynamically generated lists of links with
>>annotations.  Something like this
>>http://www.libraryforlife.org/hotlist/
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>We have used the free version ("Free for non-profit and individual use") of the Links program for this
>(<http://gossamer-threads.com/scripts/links/>) and it served quite well for us.
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