I'd like to see the following:

• The ability to change the admin password


• The ability to delete specific collected search terms or purge them all. Someone searched for a porn term on my links site and now I can't get rid of the term.


• The ability to change "What's Cool" so that it tracks my personal ratings of the sites I have gathered. I believe the code bases coolness by number of links in. I have done this with brute force by disabling the code that tracks links in and by then editing the database to insert my own numerical ratings out of 100. Clearly, there's a way to alter the code to do this with more finesse. I'd like to be able to use a star rating system.

The admin panel is protected by something called htpasswd, which is part of Apache. Likely your site has a control panel that allows you to change the password.

Check out the Reset admin module, it will allow you to flush the search terms table (among other things, so use carefully)

On your 3rd suggestion.. yes! Being able to manipulate the "ranks" more granularly is a good idea

Thanks. And that takes me to my fourth wish:

• A documentation wiki. The script itself contains a lot of very helpful info in the form of comments. However, I wouldn't have ended up wishing for two things I already have if I knew where to read about it.

Definitely need some sort of user manual.

canoe wrote:

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I'd like to see the following:


* The ability to change the admin password

* The ability to delete specific collected search terms or purge them all. Someone searched for a porn term on my links site and now I can't get rid of the term.

* The ability to change "What's Cool" so that it tracks my personal ratings of the sites I have gathered. I believe the code bases coolness by number of links in. I have done this with brute force by disabling the code that tracks links in and by then editing the database to insert my own numerical ratings out of 100. Clearly, there's a way to alter the code to do this with more finesse. I'd like to be able to use a star rating system.
Thanks. And that takes me to my fourth wish:

• A documentation wiki. The script itself contains a lot of very helpful info in the form of comments. However, I wouldn't have ended up wishing for two things I already have if I knew where to read about it.:blush:

-you can actually change your password in the "config" file which is going to be at the root directory install location.

-as dewed mentioned you can use the "terms" reset module from your directory sites admin interface (see the left hand nav panel on your directory site's admin tool). The better way to inferface with the mysql tables to dig into the backend of what is feeding your dew-new phplinks site is use a tool like MyPHPAdmin which gives you an interface. From MyPHPAdmin, you can view the terms table and kill all the records or just remove some of the search functions' terms.

-as far as a user manual for dew-new phplinks, the best resources I can think of would be:

• This forum


• MySQL reference


• PHP Documentation


• I have been collecting some really great links on my website just for this very topic which are easy to read, well written (in my opinion) php and mysql tutorials... make sure to review the novice write-ups like spoono.com and Easy Peasy PHP by Digital Web mag. or not if you are not at that stage of coding.

Another great addition to a user manual for Dew New PHP links would be anyone's positive contribution to this very forum! Spread the word and share what you have learned!