Link Directory

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[DaveVII]

only got 16ish replies...not really enough to warrent a huge effort as of yet. Still waiting for a few people to get back to me.

Also been looking into freeware software that could do all the scripting for me, but it requires that everybody install it on their ftp server, which might be askign a bit too much.

Anyway, still trying to think of the best way of doing this. any ideas welcome!

[Landy]

I'll have a think, see if I can write something, the issue is keeping it up-to-date on everyones webservers.

If i can think of a way round that it'll be a piece of p***

[woostar]

Originally Posted by Landy

I'll have a think, see if I can write something, the issue is keeping it up-to-date on everyones webservers.

If i can think of a way round that it'll be a piece of p***

$clone = file_get_contents("http://www.domain.com/directory");
echo $clone;

to clone the directory page.


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[Landy]

wouldn't I need write permissions on that persons server?

[DaveVII]

yer, thats another problem needed to overcome, but as i understand it, the person just needs to allow writing to the exact URLs, not their whole server.

[chigley]

I'm locked out of my server at the moment, will post how far I got when I can access the code again!

[woostar]

Something like this will work

<?php
if (!is_set) { $HTTP_GET_VARS['page']=0; }
$file = fopen ("http://www.domain.com/directory.php?page=".$HTTP_GET_VARS['page'], "r");
while (!feof ($file)) echo fgets ($file, 1024);
fclose($file);
?>

Also gives you the ability to have pages in the directory.


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[chigley]

Oi Woostar get on MSN

[woostar]

I'm having a day off

[Landy]

That's like writing in French to me mate, i'm a c#, asp.net coder, never even looked at PHP before.

[DaveVII]

damn it, didn't think of that. Half of us are gonna be linux based servers and half are gonna be windows. Will this make a difference to the coding?

[Landy]

Shouldn't be a problem, as far as i can see the access rights are the biggest prob, can't say i'm comfortable opening up write permissions for anything coming in form the outside on my webserver. I don't know enough about IIS configuration to be confident i wont get smacked.

[chigley]

I don't get what you're all on about here? I thought we were just making one page with links to all our sites? :S

[bmh16]

lol i thought that as well, im well confused!

[Landy]

Do we not each have to host that file? If we just link to a centrally hosted file of links, I don't think that carries as much weight as us all having a copy of a file with all the links in. Is that right?

[chigley]

In that case, one of us will host the master file and everyone else will be given a script to put on their site which reads the page from the master.

[Landy]

That's teh thing though, will it be a script that has to be manually run? In which case the system could be abused, or if it's a script that runs as a service and checks every minute/ half hour/ hour/day (whatever) then how would that work given that some servers are running linux and some windows etc.

[chigley]

Well the script that the slaves were given would just act as a normal webpage which will contain the links. It would just update when someone or a Googlebot views it.

I'd provide files for each server

[DaveVII]

i've thought through a centralised location for the 'masterfile', but so long as google doesn't detect that this is going on. the script has to be as obvious as possible for the actual links- just a hyperlink with a key words title.