That worked great, thanks. look forward to the other bit

Thanks to aelara's donation I was able to find someone to write the javascript portion needed to present a plain URL and still keep the outbound click counts.

I've created this patch for version 2.1.0.1b SEF It includes a new /out.php
and a new /includes/functions.php file and can be downloaded here

The included readme.txt file . . .

QUOTE:

This patch is for Dew-NewPHPLinks version 2.1.0.1b SEF

This patch does not use the "outer_frame" method of linking to the sites listed in your installation.
The setting of the outer_frame option is ignored.

What this patch does....
Presents plain URLs on category, whats cool, popular, new pages, as well as search results. Outbound clicks will still be counted
when using a javascript capable browser.

Corrects out.php to ensure outbound clicks are counted, as long as the previous click was from a different IP address


Installation..

Rename your current files /out.php and /includes/function.php to something like /out/php.bck and /includes/functions/php.bck
Upload the new /out.php and /includes/functions.php files.

That's it

I'm interested in more about how to disable the outbound click counting so I can use just a plain html hardlink to the sites in my directory. What line of code would I have to replace and with what to have this done?

After backing up your include/functions.php file you'd need to tweak both the draw_sites function which starts around line # 1175 and the draw_search_sites function, around line # 1347

Line 1234 for example

Code:

<a target=\"blank\" href=./out.php?ID=" . $sites_array[site_id] . ">";

would become

Code:

<a target=\"blank\" href=\"'.$sites_array["site_url"]. "\">";

BUT,, and there is always a but, since outbound clicks would not be counted, the whats popular page would be meaningless, so it would need to be removed from the navigation. Despite what is commonly believed, the method of linking to a site via a file like out.php which does a 301 redirect is seen by Google as a back link from your site to the remote site.. but of course no one believes this. Do a Google search for "link:http://www.freemusicvideosnow.com/" (that's my music video site btw) It is listed in the demo install here on Dew-Code and is indeed seen as a back link from here http://www.dew-code.com/demo/directory/3.html .