Make your own online link manager

I used blogrolling for years and was generally happy with it. But the latest outage motivated me to research making my own system, and I found an easy way to do it. Here are the steps:

Go to t35.com and sign up for a free account, which allows you to run PHP scripts. Remember your account name, which I will refer to as YOURNAME.

Make this script in Notepad, and save it as savelink.php. Then upload it to your T35 account.


<?php
$u = $_GET['u'];
$text = $_GET['t'];
$tag = "<a href='" . $u . "'>" . $text . "</a><br>\n";
$fp = fopen('links.html', 'a');
fwrite($fp, $tag);
fclose($fp);
header ("Location: http://YOURNAME.t35.com/links.html");
?>
<HTML></HTML>

Open a Web browser and go to this URL:
http://YOURNAME.t35.com/savelink.php?u=http://yahoo.com&t=yahoo
You should see a page appear with a Yahoo link on it.

To make a "Blogroll This!" button, create a new button on your Links bar and assign it this URL:


javascript:void(document.location='http://YOURNAME.t35.com/savelink.php?u='+escape(location.href)+'&t='+escape(document.title));

I use my script to save news links, so I want to prepend the date to each one, with this URL:


javascript:var%20xz=new%20Date();var%20xm=(xz.getMonth()+101)+'%20';var%20m=xm.substring(1,3);var%20xy=xz.getFullYear();var%20xd=(xz.getDate()+100)+'%20';var%20d=xd.substring(1,3);void(document.location='http://YOURNAME.t35.com/savelink.php?u='+escape(location.href)+'&t='+xy+'-'+m+'-'+d+':%20'+escape(document.title));

If you find errors in this, or have comments, please email them to me at sbowne@ccsf.edu.

--Sam Bowne 10-18-08