As a refresher on programming before I take a full year of computer science courses next year, I've decided I want to try coding a small blogroll for my blog in PHP. I used a Perl plug-in a while back and didn't like the output. It was pre-formatted so that people had to link to the developer's site. I wouldn't have a problem with that, but given the limitations of MT's template system it ended up being much more trouble that it was worth.
I don't plan on having a front-end for this. It will all be in a MT4 template module. Since I have no problem copying and pasting code, that will probably work best with an array. I'm going to start with several small arrays for different categories of links I have, i.e. blogs by people I know, urban focused blogs, economic focused blogs, etc. That way I will have a quick and easy output to shorten the list of blogs at the bottom of the page, and can have each category select a blog randomly. That will give me something to put up while I work on a ranking system for weights on a larger array with all of my links.
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