Links Manager (was Link Manager 2)

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Having become curious about the code because of your last reply, I had a look at it and holy..
I could barely believe the size & complexity of the codebase for something as basic as 'managing links'.

The plugin exposes a global $lm_links, but all properties are protected so no way to get the raw data, unless you modify the core with your own return function, or change existing ones.

I also noticed that the plugin is not compatible with PHP 5.2.x and under (it should mention PHP 5.3+). The preg_replace_callback functions in the functions.php file use an anonymous function while it should be a reference by string name for compatibility. See http://php.net/manual/en/function.preg-replace-callback.php#109248.

EDIT: fiddled with it. as a quick hack for returning a link category, go to links_manager/inc/Links.php, and on line 83, change the private keyword to public, then add the following code in links_manager/functions.php:

PHP Code:

function return_links_raw($catId) {
    global $lm_links;
    return $lm_links->get_by_category($catId);
} 


This will return an array of Link objects for that categoryId, eg you'd access the first link in the first category's url like this: $link = return_links_raw(0)[0]->url.