 readme  id readmetxt v 14 20060801 145619 syscrusher exp the links package is a set of modules that facilitate use of web links urls in various content types each link is carefully examined to put it into a common format and then cataloged into a master database table when it is first used later references to the same link by other content on the site are automatically connected to the same master catalog entry so that any particular unique url appears in the database only once no matter how many times it is referred to by site content module descriptions links linksmodule provides an application program interface api for managing internal and external links as part of a drupal node the module by itself does very little mainly it provides a user interface for controlling the way in which links are handled and how they behave within all nodes in other words the global settings for the api library author scott courtney drupalorg user syscrusher release status this module is at an initial release state ready for earlyadopter use in production linksrelated linksrelatedmodule allows nodes of arbitrary types as designated by the site administrator to have one or more associated links to related content author scott courtney drupalorg user syscrusher release status this module is at an initial release state ready for earlyadopter use in production linksweblink linksweblinkmodule is a modified version of the existing weblinkmodule but uses the new links api and database tables linksweblinkmodule is also integrated with viewsmodule which allows very flexible retrieval of the links catalog linksweblinkmodule provides its own simple query mechanism for sites with modest needs but viewsmodule offers a much more robust mechanism release status this module is at an initial release state ready for earlyadopter use in production linksadmin linksadminmodule is for administering the sitewide database of links independent of the module s using each link release status this module is experimental do not use in production sites linksadminmodule is not yet part of the standard download and is available only from cvs update scripts to run the update scripts you must first use the regular drupal ugrade procedure to convert your node table and related tables to version 46 the update scripts will not work with drupal 45 neither will the links package the update scripts are experimental use at your own risk updateweblinksoldphp if you have weblink nodes that were created before drupal 46 this is the update script that you need it nondestructively copies data from the old weblink table into the new combination of links and linksnode using the api calls to correctly normalize each url it is not correct to simply use sql commands to directly copy the urls from the old table to the new ones updatewebstoryphp the module webstory was developed for use on a few specific sites chances are about 99 that you are not using webstorymodule and therefore do not need this script it s provided as an example however in case it might be useful to other developers  