Can A Story Be Submitted By URL???

[eon]

Is it possible to submit a new story like this?

<a href="http://pliggsite.com/submit.php?url=http://thisstoryurl">Pligg this page</a>

Just like we digg stuff.

[Simon]

Yep, that's just how it works. The EVB uses the same method to let people submit webpages to pligg sites, as does the basic version of the FireFox extension I posted.

If you're not logged in, it will re-direct you to the login page, and when logged in it will return you to the submit page again (with url still in tact).

[eon]

Good to hear. Thanks for the reply.

Could you give me links to those?

I've looke into the EVB mod but looked like its for voting not submitting, and lots of people having trouble with it. Am I wrong?

Thanks

[Simon]

The EVB does both - if a page hasn't been submitted already, it will take you to the submit page. I have no trouble with the EVB in its current form. The FF extension can be found here.

[eon]

Well it seems that the evb uses javascript, and I'd like to avoid that.

I want to just straight url with an html image. I tried just sending a url to submit.php but if it exists, it just gives an error saying it already exists. I would like for it to forward the user to login or register and once in to be directed to the story.

How do I do that?

[Simon]

You can use an iframe instead of javascript (look in button.php to see the iframe that is written).

As for the submit.php process, if you aren't logged in and you go to submit.php?url=http://site.com then it will take you to the login page before you can submit a url. If a url already exists, you may want to add in a check at the start of submit.php for it. I use one that re-directs to the story page instead of submit, if the url is already in the database:

//if url already exists, go to story page
$check_url = mysql_real_escape_string(strip_tags($_GET['url']));
$link_query = mysql_query("SELECT link_id FROM " . table_links . " WHERE link_url='$check_url' AND link_status!='discarded'");
$link_rows = mysql_num_rows($link_query);
if($link_rows > 0) {
    $link = mysql_fetch_array($link_query);
    $id = $link['link_id'];
    header('Location: story.php?id='.$id);
}

[eon]

Super! About what line did you add that code to?

Edit:

Right under the includes? Like line 18?

[Simon]

I added it just below the includes, yeh.

[eon]

Did that... thanks.

The only thing that sucks is that if the user has not registered before, this doesn't work. It's lost during registration. Is that fixable?

[Simon]

Not sure about registration - maybe save it as a session variable?