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Hi,
I have used the EE Core version for about 6 months now, and Im extremely impressed with the CMS. But I have one problem, and therefore I now consider to upgrade to a personal license.

I have tried to create a link-directory for a long time, but with bad luck. I want to create a place where users can submit links and browse links by categories. Users must be able to post links without being a member of my site.

So I’m thinking, I want to create “dummy-posts” and call them something like “News”, “Sports” and so on. I then want to use these post as categories, and let users comment on these. But to make posting easy, I want all my “dummy-posts” to appear in a drop-down list in the comment form. And then the user can choose wich post, or category, he or she will post into.

Is this possible? I have read a bit about the query-module, so I wonder if its possible to do this with this module? Something like this? (I’m not good with SQL..)

<select>
{exp:query sql="SELECT * FROM exp_weblog_titles"}

<option>{title}</option>

{/exp:query}
</select>

Or is there any other way I can do this?

By the way, I know this is easy to do if my guest are members and logged in. But if I can allow unregistered guests to post, I will give it a try! 😉

Greetings, tjooghei,

Thank you for the kind words.

Yes, you could do this, what you would do is use the Moblog to submit your links as entries to a particular weblog. You would then not need the query module to pull that information out, you would simply use the weblog entries tag.  This is very straightforward to do; but it does require the Moblog so you will have to purchase a license.

The query module also requires the full version, so if you did have a need for that, then you would need to purchase a license.

Hi Lisa

That seems like a good idea. But the Moblog will only be updated in spesific time intervals? Right? So if a user post a new link the link will not show up in my site before a spesific time has passed? I know i can set the time between checks, but can I set this time to one minute, or less? What about my server-load then?

Thank you for your help 😊

Unregistered users submitting links…sounds like great potential for being a spam target.  You might want to have an approval step in there…

Hehe.. yes I know, it is a spam target. I used to have a link-directory on my previous page, and I did get alot of spam. But after I added a captcha box, I didn’t get spam anymore! So I need a captcha 😊