Hello;

I dont know this is a good idea or not, but i think when an user submit a new link, instead of admin needs to approve one-by-one; why we dont do like yahoo style, let user upload a meta tag (somehow like the way recip link works) to their file or an html file to their server, and after they upload that file, their url will be approved.

Then after the link is approved; the sphider will start to crawl them automatically?

Thanks

Well, let say a you have a directory of sites that sell toys for kids... What are you going to do if pornographic sites will automatically approve themselves to your directory?

Maybe send an email to the admin each time a new link is added. Or the option to send the email to the admin or a notification in the admin panel, something like:

New link(s) submitted since last login: X links (Check link(s))

With the option to see the links, delete or edit them. Might be a good alternative.

yeah that is a good idea. cause i though; if your directory has over 1.000 links and have about 100-200 new links everyday, how hard it could be to manual approve then sphider for each links...

You can always get the notice from the new links submitted; and you can double check it later. The site can be verified by upload the html file or meta tag to their server, website. So we do not need to do many things manually anymore....

Admin Notification addurl.php
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if(!$error){
                  mysql_query("INSERT INTO `new_links` (url, title, description, email, category) VALUES ('$url', '$title', '$description', '$email', '$category')");
                  $error = "Your URL was sucessfully submitted for editor review!<p>Feel free to submit another URL.<p>&nbsp;</p>";
$IP = $_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR'];
$emailb = "[email protected]";
$title = $_POST['title'];
$email = $_POST['email'];
$date = date ("l, F jS, Y");
$time = date ("h:i A");
$subject = "Info";
$body = $_POST['body'];
$bodys = "Info Add URL Service\nURL: $url\n$date, $time\nIP ADDRESS: $IP\nTitle: $title\nEmail: $email ";

$body = $body . $bodys;
mail($emailb, $subject, $body, "From: $emailb");
                  }
               }
            }
         }
      }
   }

function list_catz($parent,$categories,$lev) {
   $space = "";



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If my directory got spammed I would HATE to get 100's or even 1000's of emails within a matter of seconds, minutes or even hours. I think it is a BAD idea to do something like this. One solution could be what Fredto suggested:

New link(s) submitted since last login: X links (Check link(s))

Alternatively, a daily/weekly/monthly email could be sent out with a summary of stats with the number of links in the queue; this seems more plausible IF you would want email notifications at all.

I also believe that the auto approve via META or HTML file is a BAD idea. Expanding on what Pavel said, it would lead to misuse, exploitation, etc.

Personally a quality directory has an owner who reviews the website for quality links, not spam sites, or other malicious websites built only for making money etc.

Also, another idea may be... On the listing of sites awaiting approval, there could be check boxes which would allow you to bulk approve... And in the configuration you can either set "Auto Spider Upon Approval" to on or off. If it is on, all approved listings would be placed in the spider queue and will be crawled in order added to the queue behind the scenes (meaning you do not need to watch the crawling).

Enough has been said about automatic approval being a bad idea, I know. I want nevertheless to also emphasize it. There are too many evil, exploitative people these days who would fill up the directory with undesired & useless or even harmful links without any sense of guilt in no time.

I disabled some Guestbook because of over 4000 useless auto-submitted entries, in spite of captcha, mostly to do with Viagra or porn or related sites. It's a loooot of work separating then from legitimate entries.

Every measure to stop or make that more difficult is welcome.