Rather than just have recent links with your entry links. What about having recent links with all the links mentioned in particular entries.

A similar plugin is available for movable type called LinksMentioned

What da ya think? Doable?

Yes, it’s doable.  I’m not sure about what the plugin does exactly. Should it simply give a list of links that were used in your latest entries?

Yes. Say if you were using your blog for more of a news blog where you would mention several links in your entry.

The plugin would list and link the titles of the links used in your latest entries.
Might also have a link checker feature to check the validity of itself.

Ok It took me longer than I expected but I wrote the plugin. Took me a while to figure out the best way to implement it. I’ll post it in two seconds after I write the documentation… You’ll need to test it out for me to see if there’s any bugs and to give any further suggestions.

By the way, I don’t think the link checking feature is a good idea for the following reasons…

Checking multiple links at once time will slow the page down.
If the page is cached, the links won’t be checked anyway.
The plugin only uses links that are extracted for recently posted entries, so if a link is dead or misspelled you can simple fix it viva EE’s control panel.

Links Mentioned

Methinks something needs to be submitted to the Plugins site… [grin]

Will do

Cheers works a treat

thanx for this, it works perfect.
a little request: category and entry_id as parameters would extend the power of this plugin

with a few php-knowledge i tried to get an entry_id as parameter in the following way, but there is a problem with the {url}, maybe it`s a trivial thing i don`t see, so i post it here.

... the links_mentioned-tag in my template:

{exp:links_mentioned weblog=“plattform” eentry_id=”{entry_id}” fields=“links” extractn=“600” limit=“10”}
<li><a href=”{url}”>{label}</a></li>
{/exp:links_mentioned}

...in pi.links_mentioned.php (####):

class Links_Mentioned
{
var $weblog = ‘’;
var $fields = ‘’;

var $eentry_id = ‘’;  ####

var $search_limit = 10;
var $limit = 10;
var $exclude = array();

var $link_params = array();
var $return_data = ‘’;

function links_mentioned()
{
global $TMPL, $DB, $FNS, $LOC;

/*———————————————————-
Fetch Template Parameters
————————————————————-*/

$this->weblog   = ( ! $TMPL->fetch_param(‘weblog’))  ? $this->weblog : $TMPL->fetch_param(‘weblog’);
$this->fields   = ( ! $TMPL->fetch_param(‘fields’))  ? $this->fields : $TMPL->fetch_param(‘fields’);

$this->eentry_id   = ( ! $TMPL->fetch_param(‘eentry_id’))  ? $this->eentry_id : $TMPL->fetch_param(‘eentry_id’);  ####

$this->limit   = ( ! $TMPL->fetch_param(‘limit’))  ? $this->limit   : (int) $TMPL->fetch_param(‘limit’);
$this->exclude = ( ! $TMPL->fetch_param(‘exclude’)) ? $this->exclude : explode(’|’, $TMPL->fetch_param(‘exclude’));
$this->search_limit = ( ! $TMPL->fetch_param(‘search_limit’))  ? $this->search_limit
: (int) $TMPL->fetch_param(‘search_limit’);

$eentry_id = $TMPL->fetch_param(‘eentry_id’);  ####

...then

/*———————————————————-
Get the field data
————————————————————-*/

$sql = “SELECT “;

foreach ($fields as $val)
{
$sql .= ” exp_weblog_data.” . $val . “,”;
}

$sql = substr($sql, 0, -1);

$sql .= ” FROM exp_weblog_data
INNER JOIN exp_weblog_titles ON (exp_weblog_titles.entry_id = exp_weblog_data.entry_id)
WHERE exp_weblog_data.weblog_id = ’” . $weblog_id . “‘

    AND exp_weblog_titles.status = ‘open’
AND exp_weblog_data.entry_id = ’” . $eentry_id . ”’  ####

ORDER BY exp_weblog_data.entry_id DESC
LIMIT 0, ” . $this->search_limit;

... so, what it did: limits the output to the entry but with the {url} from (i assume) the first found in another place.

<li><a href=“http://www.humanrights.at”>geawaltüberwinden.org</a></li>

<li><a href=“http://www.humanrights.at”>tolerantschools.org</a></li>

... where it should be this.

<li><a href=“http://www.gewaltueberwinden.org” >geawaltüberwinden.org</a></li>

<li><a href=“http://www.tolerantschools.org” >tolerantschools.org</a></li>

any suggestions?

Have’nt had much time but i’ll add it soon.

thx, redo. no problem.

Links Mentioned Version 2.0

Added two new parameters with piping enabed:

Added two new tags

Added conditionals scripting support.

perfect. thx & best wishes!

the plugin works fine, one problem when using inside {exp:weblog:entries}-tag is, that the “url”-declaration is also used as the authors-url-variable and overwritten by this.
i found following solution:
replace every “url” in pi.links_mentioned.php with “Lurl” (or whatever unique) and use the tag like this:

{exp:links_mentioned weblog=“plattform” fields=“links” limit=“10” entry_id=”{entry_id}” }
<li><a href=”{Lurl}” target=“_blank” >{label}</a></li>
{/exp:links_mentioned}

thanx redo for your help. the plugin is very useful for my cases.