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Your Text: Insert Slimies » Insert UBB Code » Close Last Tag \| All Tags UBB Help	this is more a not to myself, than anything else, I'm not even sure it can be accomplished... We shall see. --[internallink=4643]Tyberius Prime[/internallink] [small][i](Added by: [url=http://www.ozoneasylum.com/cgi-bin/ubbmisc.cgi?action=getbio&UserName=Tyberius+Prime]Tyberius Prime [/url] on Mon 20-May-2002)[/i][/small] ________________ [internallink=4803]Dracusis[/internallink]: As for the "Linking to an asylum page that's been archived" problem. I've noticed that this happens throughout the asylum a lot as well. Maybe we could alter the Asylum board to write in a HTML re-direct when it archives anything to try and keep the links working all-round. Although I can see another problem here as well. What if someone links a page in the FAQ then it gets removed from the Asylum after a certain period of time, ie - not archived?. I think the biggest problems at the moment are maintaining integrity between the two structures. Maybe we need to force the migration of the Asylum to a PHP solution sooner? Maybe there are other ways to work around this for the time being. [small][i](Edited by: [url=http://www.ozoneasylum.com/cgi-bin/ubbmisc.cgi?action=getbio&UserName=Dracusis]Dracusis [/url] on Mon 20-May-2002)[/i][/small] ________________ [internallink=4826]Slime[/internallink]: here were my original suggestions about this: I made a test topic in the mad scientist forum, and noted it's url: [url=http://www.ozoneasylum.com/Forum15/HTML/000063.html]http://www.ozoneasylum.com/Forum15/HTML/000063.html[/url] Then I archived the topic, and it's new url is: [url=http://www.ozoneasylum.com/Archives/Archive-000005/HTML/20020520-15-000063.html]http://www.ozoneasylum.com/Archives/Archive-000005/HTML/20020520-15-000063.html[/url] So, I'm thinking, maybe there's a way to create a mechanism within the FAQ for linking to posts. The FAQ can replace the link, not with an actual link to the post, but a link to a php thingy to deal with it. Something like, if I type [asylum15.63] it will link to forum 15, thread #63. Except that it won't actually link there, it will link to a php thingy, which will check to see if there exists a thread 63 in forum 15. If there does, it will forward you there. But, if there does not, it could search the archives for any html file ending in "-15-000063.html". If it finds one, it will both (a) forward the user there, while (b) deleting the old link to itself and replacing it with a hard link to the archived topic. OK, so it's a little screwy, and may be hard to implement. But it might make things easier; if we don't do something about it, I forsee many broken links which no one will have the ambition to fix. It might be easier to implement it like this: every time a thread is archived, it can store information about the archival in some text file, saying something like "thread 63 in forum 15 has been archived to this url: ...", then the php script i mentioned could use that text file rather than searching the archives for the topic. OK. Just some ideas. ----------------------------------- In the same vein, here is one more idea: .htaccess and mod_rewrite could be used to transparently search for links to "dead" topics. Of course, all this depends on the release of the new Asylum, but I feel mod_rewrite would allow for an easy workaround: [i]Relevant Threads:[/i] [url=http://www.ozoneasylum.com/Forum12/HTML/001614.html]http://www.ozoneasylum.com/Forum12/HTML/001614.html[/url] [small][i](Edited by: [url=http://www.ozoneasylum.com/cgi-bin/ubbmisc.cgi?action=getbio&UserName=Slime]Slime [/url] on Tue 21-May-2002)[/i][/small] [small][i](Edited by: [url=http://www.ozoneasylum.com/cgi-bin/ubbmisc.cgi?action=getbio&UserName=InI]InI [/url] on Fri 24-Oct-2003)[/i][/small] Loading...
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