Comments on: New get_links_list() function

By: Geof

Geof — Thu, 16 Oct 2003 08:34:30 +0000

Dougal, this is an awesome little function. Thanks so much.

By: Maurice

Maurice — Fri, 26 Sep 2003 06:56:34 +0000

sorry i.e

By: Maurice

Maurice — Fri, 26 Sep 2003 06:55:14 +0000

Sorry but I’m not that familiar with php some things are asy some are not and I’m the type that learns by example. I get what it does but can someone please post a complete example of the code they are using so I can see how this works.

By: Matt

Matt — Sun, 31 Aug 2003 22:17:18 +0000

Yes, future tangentially related comments will be deleted. Please keep such matters to the support forums.

By: Dougal Campbell

Dougal Campbell — Fri, 29 Aug 2003 02:49:48 +0000

First, the support forums would be a better place for this.

But, I’ve just added the ability to sort link categories by name length.

By: John

John — Fri, 29 Aug 2003 01:24:30 +0000

I’ve asked this in b2′s feature request forum in the past, but had no response. So maybe I’ll ask here with some success. Could you please add a feature to get_links_list() sorted not by id nor name, but by the length of the name? For example, if you remembered slashdot’s old frontpage, the links on the left were listed with the shortest words first and last and the longest words in the middle. It makes for a more aesthetically pleasing list. Or, using another example, if you have a blogrolling account, one of the sorting options that blogrolling provides is to sort according to the size of the link (i.e. the link’s text name) — this option is listed under “Sorting Tricks” in the Preferences menu for your blogrolling.com account. In this way, instead of sorting by “id” or “name”, you can have sort by “wordlength,” in which case you’ll need an additional parameter such as “toplongest, bottomlongest, middlelongest, middleshortest” to describe the sorting method. This is one of the features, in my opinion, that will make wordpress more attractive to bloggers who take attention to details (details that matter).

By: Michael

Michael — Thu, 28 Aug 2003 14:51:21 +0000

Ah, I get it. Nice!

By: Dougal Campbell

Dougal Campbell — Wed, 27 Aug 2003 19:52:05 +0000

Oh yeah, and my "What's Playing" is handled by the What's Playing Plugin for Winamp3. That site has some links to plugins for other players, too, and also to the PHP code to receive the info from the plugin.

By: Dougal Campbell

Dougal Campbell — Wed, 27 Aug 2003 19:42:46 +0000

All the CODE tag normally does is to display its contents in a fixed-width font. You still have to escape ‘<’ characters as ‘<’ if you want to show what code should look like.

Anyhow, what’s different between get_links_list() and get_links() is:

get_links() will not display the name of the link category, and will sort all of your links as one big list (unless you put a separate get_links() call in your template for each of your categories), regardless of the link category. It pretty much ignores all of the options you’ve set in the Link Categories management screens

get_links_list() automagically honors all of the settings in the Link Categories screens, for each category individually. So it sorts the categories in the order you want (with a header for each one), and it sorts the links for each category separately.

In my case, I have six categories (well, actually, I have seven, but I don’t have any links in the default ‘General’ category, so it isn’t displayed):

Dougal’s Stuff
Tangential
Technology and Design
Misc Stuff
Blog Meta
Tech News

My Link Categories options have different settings for each category. In “Dougal’s Stuff”, I sort by link ID, and don’t display ‘updated’ info. The ‘Tangential” category is sorted by ID, but does display ‘updated’. In “Technology and Design”, I sort by updated/descending. The other three categories are all sorted by the link name.

All of that sorting and the other display options are being automagically handled by get_links_list(). All I have to tell it is in what order I want the categories displayed. In my case, I have it list my categories by ID, because I entered the categories in a specific order that I wanted to use.

Internally, get_links_list() is calling the get_links() function for you, passing it all the appropriate parameters to handle the options set in the Link Categories admin screen.

Does that clear things up?

By: Michael

Michael — Wed, 27 Aug 2003 15:14:34 +0000

Sorry for all these posts, but it seems that this comments system is very bad at handling posts with HTML code in them

The above have li /li as two of the options, essentially creating a list. So what’s the difference?