Polo
04-17-2005, 05:06 PM
Dear vBadvanced Staff...
This is an easy feature request that I'm pretty sure can be added to the vbalinks and well is sometihng that is now needed at my site and I'm pretty sure that this will be helpful for many vbadvanced members who have the vbalink installed in their sites... specially those high traffic sites...
My site has been growing quite fast and on of the problems i'm starting to experience alot is users reporting broken links.... the problem is not them reporting them (as that is good for me to keep my links up to date) the problem is the way the links are reported... the current way the system does it I dont think is efficient at all...
and well here comes the request... right now the way the system is setup in vbalinks is that a user reports a "broken" link and clicks on "report link" they are directed to a page where they can enter a brief information or reason why they are reporting the link... however as I said, this is not efficient as a member can report a link broken, the borken link message say "the site is borken, is returning a page not found error" and at the time I check the link, the links is working.... the page was probably down at that moment because of a dns problem or any other reason... the thing is i'm getting alot but alot of this type of messages in my email... making it really hard for me to find the real "true" broken links....
I would like for the system to do this... as I worked with alot of other link indexing sofware... and ususally the way they do it is this...
when a user clicks on a "repot link" they go to a page that says something like "are you sure you want to report this link?" and then a confirmation button that says "yes" or "cancel" when the user clicks "yes" it send him to a regular page that says "thank you for reporting this link" (and if the user clicks cancel it just takes him back to where he came from) anyways... in the backend.. the link has an extra field in the database table someting like "reports" or "reported link" or something that is just a number that increases evertime someone reports that specific link....
at the end in the back end, you can list the links in descending order with the most reported links in the top... ususally the most reported links are the ones that are trully "broken" or there is someting wrong with them... of course you also have the option to click on "reset count" just in case the link works.... this will decrease the number of emails a webmaster gets daily and will be better to keep the links up to date...
I'm pretty sure this is really simple...if this cant be added to the vbalinks by defaul... i would like for someone to help me do this in my links directory...
thanks for your help...
This is an easy feature request that I'm pretty sure can be added to the vbalinks and well is sometihng that is now needed at my site and I'm pretty sure that this will be helpful for many vbadvanced members who have the vbalink installed in their sites... specially those high traffic sites...
My site has been growing quite fast and on of the problems i'm starting to experience alot is users reporting broken links.... the problem is not them reporting them (as that is good for me to keep my links up to date) the problem is the way the links are reported... the current way the system does it I dont think is efficient at all...
and well here comes the request... right now the way the system is setup in vbalinks is that a user reports a "broken" link and clicks on "report link" they are directed to a page where they can enter a brief information or reason why they are reporting the link... however as I said, this is not efficient as a member can report a link broken, the borken link message say "the site is borken, is returning a page not found error" and at the time I check the link, the links is working.... the page was probably down at that moment because of a dns problem or any other reason... the thing is i'm getting alot but alot of this type of messages in my email... making it really hard for me to find the real "true" broken links....
I would like for the system to do this... as I worked with alot of other link indexing sofware... and ususally the way they do it is this...
when a user clicks on a "repot link" they go to a page that says something like "are you sure you want to report this link?" and then a confirmation button that says "yes" or "cancel" when the user clicks "yes" it send him to a regular page that says "thank you for reporting this link" (and if the user clicks cancel it just takes him back to where he came from) anyways... in the backend.. the link has an extra field in the database table someting like "reports" or "reported link" or something that is just a number that increases evertime someone reports that specific link....
at the end in the back end, you can list the links in descending order with the most reported links in the top... ususally the most reported links are the ones that are trully "broken" or there is someting wrong with them... of course you also have the option to click on "reset count" just in case the link works.... this will decrease the number of emails a webmaster gets daily and will be better to keep the links up to date...
I'm pretty sure this is really simple...if this cant be added to the vbalinks by defaul... i would like for someone to help me do this in my links directory...
thanks for your help...