Link Manager 3.0 Support Thread

[Andy-C27]

Got a bit of a shock to read this RIP Clyde ..

[Andy-C27]

Can someone help with the links and not finding the "Links Check Phrase" when I go there manually my phrase is there but it is not linked words just plain typing ...does it have to be linked before it will be found

Thanks

[notageek]

Hi. I realize Clyde's fine module is now unsupported. I apparently had previously placed this module in my cart but not completed the installation. When I uploaded the "new install" there were some files that were dated November 2011, and the new ones were dated 12/10/11.

I did figure out, by looking at other Zen Cart modules, that the 1064 error for creating tables for this module comes up due to the MySQL 5.1 specific requirement for the following to occur:

replace every occurrence of
Code:
TYPE=MyISAM
with
Code:
ENGINE=MyISAM

The only problem I now have is that the category title and category description appear twice. I did substitute one title with a category icon, but the second title still occurs.

I removed all files on my test server, while leaving the tables in MySQL from the SQL patch, but the Layout Boxes Controller tells me the link manager sidebox is missing.

I searched for some of the title language in the developer's toolbox, but found nothing, I am not sure why, because I entered the language in the link category admin screen, and it appears on the links page.

Therefore, I need another method to try to find the duplicate link category title and the duplicate category descriptions on my live site. Does anyone have any advice on how to locate the duplicates?

It looks like this:

[Icon: Audio Software Downloads]
Downloadable audio software which may be relevant to karaoke
Audio Software Downloads
Downloadable audio software which may be relevant to karaoke

The above appears without the line breaks--it all runs together.

Maybe I am not using the developer's toolkit correctly. I searched for catalog/admin files in both language file lookups and all file lookups.

Thanks for any suggestions.

Notageek

[notageek]

Well, I re-uploaded the file that was "missing" after I had done the complete deletion process and re-uploaded the module, and uploaded that file after rebooting, and was able to turn on the link manager sidebox in my WAMP test server.

However, the problem of duplicate descriptions and title remains.

The only place where that information is entered is in the admin->layout boxes controller. If I find the answer, I will post.

Notageek

[notageek]

Yikes. I logged into my site today in Firefox, after having turned off the links manager sidebox yesterday and lots of things are wrong. The header is gone and products are not displaying pictures.

However, it works in Internet Explorer and Chrome.

I guess I will need to do an uninstall process. My site is www.g o k a r a o k e m a c h i n e.com, if anyone cares to check. It still has visitors and seems functional. I believed I left it fully operational last night, with the link manager sidebox turned off (since the link category descriptions showed up in duplicate).

By the way, I saw on the Internet that in some cases there are duplicate showings when a site is bilingual. I'm not sure that would apply in this case, but I will keep it in mind while investigating.

Maybe I should upgrade to ZenCart 1.5 and try the 1.5 version of the link manager module. I was trying to avoid an upgrade due to severe time crunches in my schedule.

If I solve any of these glitches, I will post.

Notageek

[notageek]

To dispell any misperception I might have engendered, the problem of Firefox not rendering images appears related solely to use of Symantec Client Security. The firewall must be told to allow all traffic from Firefox.

So that is completely unrelated to the duplicate descriptions appearing in the category screen for the Link Manager module.

Discovery of this problem was an unrelated result of examining the site from a location utilizing the Symantec firewall.

Notageek

[notageek]

On the duplicate description problem: I checked my database tables (via PHPMyAdmin) and there were no duplicate entries in the category description for this module.

I noted that Clyde's example link did not have a description duplicate, so I checked the Links and the Links Categories to see how he entered his example link.

Clyde described his site in the Links submission page, and that description appears when the particular link is clicked on.

Clyde simply did not fill in the category description box in the Links Categories Admin page. There is only a category title. When I filled in the description box as a test , the duplicate description problem occurred.

Therefore, until a solution is discovered, it appears the category description box must be left blank.

I am wondering why this problem has not come up for any of the other posters in this over 100-page thread.

Notageek

[notageek]

Lopi, at Post #1864, said:

I have links_manager_v3-5-3c and all banner images are in /images/links_image/ its posible to use my partners destination like src="http://test.com/ikon88x31.jpg" thank you for reply....

Clyde responded that, no, it is not possible.

I am adding a link for a site that gave me a code snippit:

<a href="http://www.xxx.com" target="_blank">
<img src="http://www.xxx.com/images/logo.gif" alt="alt content here xxx"> </a>

I placed this code into the image slot, and the image does appear in the Admin screen for the links, but of course, it does not show up in the cart. But the default no-banner image also does not display. What displays is the little box indicating an image should be there.

Thinking through why the image appears in Admin, and someone had the ability to submit that image through the link exchange, maybe there is a manual process for taking those images from admin and putting them in the images/links-image directory. Otherwise, why would the image show up and then not be usable?

I'm not sure how to do this, but if I find the way I will post.

If the image cannot be manually inserted in the images/links-image directory, there should be instructions on the link page that people should email their images, to be manually inserted by the store.

Am I missing something obvious here?

Notageek

[notageek]

Okay, the procedure for getting the new link's logo into the links page is as follows:

1. Admin->Links, right-click the image for the linking website.
2. Choose "save image as."
3. Save to images/links_image directory under name identifiable to the new linking site (i.e., xxx_logo.gif).
4. Back in Admin->Links->edit link screen, replace the http://www.xxx.com/logo.gif (or other off-site name) with links_image/xxx_logo.gif.

Nice work once again by Clyde. I don't know why this was so obscure and seemingly impossible to solve until I was forced to think it through. Maybe this has been explained somewhere else. I hope this helps someone.

Notageek

[JonnyRRR]

Guys. Please be aware that sadly Clyde passed away last Saturday.

In Clyde's honor, this mod has been upgraded for use with the Zen Cart 1.5 release and that will made available in the downloads area shortly.

But going forward support will need to be user to user.

Hi all, first post here so hoping not to tread on anyone's toes....have just installed this great mod (v3.5.3a, not sure if it had been upgraded yet but downloaded on 7 feb 2012) on an upgraded zen cart (v1.5), everything appears to have installed correctly and all databse entries appear to be present but can't see the new link manager option in admin->configuration (also no new sidebox in admin->tools->Layout Boxes Controller), so does this mod have to be registered by admin->admin access management->admin page registration, if so does anyone know what the setting for this would be, has anyone had any success with zen cart 1.5 and this mod, thanx in advance for any help offered.