Re: [drupal-devel] New weblinks module.

Hi,

This module seems to become a really nice module now!

Throwing in some ideas here:

I think all (web)links and URI's on the drupal site should use the 
weblinks table to store its weblinks. This will centralize the whole 
weblinks management. A lot of modules now store weblinks in different 
tables all over the installtion. IMO this is bad from usability point of 
view. I'm all for centralizing all URI management.

I'm currently aware of the following modules using weblinks in some way:

* profile.module
* drupal.module
* import.module
* filestore.module
* reviews.module

There are probably more, but i'm not aware of them.

I think we should try to store all weblinks in a central place. An API 
should be provided by weblinks.module to allow this in an easy way.
I'm no good programmer, so i give some ideas here, maybe others will 
have better ideas.

1) An api to save all weblinks as a node. The body of the node can 
contain some human and machine readable text about the purpose of the 
node (eg 'this is a xml-feed. Please see http://blabla/import/12 for 
more info')

2) A cron nodegenerator to mirror all weblinks as nodes. EG a new feed 
will be provided as a node too)

3) Admin screens from where all weblinks can be edited. Eg the whole 
import admin screen will move into the weblinks section.

As you might guess I think option 1) is the best. option 2) makes no 
sense from usability  point of view. It will, however, not require 
current modules to be edited. Option 3 might look good, but will only 
work if ever the weblinks.module is included in the main distribution.




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