Links and Downloads Manager

[CThiessen]

Hi,
thanks for the fast response.

I am not a coder but if I take out the beginning "{" should i take out everything until the closing "}"?

I took out only the second ")".
At least i do have not an error but also no thumbnail.

Christian

[AndrewD]

Hi,
thanks for the fast response.

I am not a coder but if I take out the beginning "{" should i take out everything until the closing "}"?

I took out only the second ")".
At least i do have not an error but also no thumbnail.

Christian

If you're not getting an error, you've probably got the fix right. Just to be clear, on the last of the lines, you're changing ")) {" to ");".

I've just retested the plugi on my test site and it seems to work fine. The thumbnail is created at the moment you add or edit the entry.

If you want, I'll take a look at your site to check if I can see any problem - will need an account with vb admin privileges.

[Ipuck]

Hello Andrew

I have used LDM for years and I love it, now I have a couple of questions

How do I know if notifications are sent to the users (who have downloaded the link) when the link is edited?

If I have created the link and downloaded the file afterwards, do I get an email notification as well?

[AndrewD]

Hello Andrew

I have used LDM for years and I love it, now I have a couple of questions

How do I know if notifications are sent to the users (who have downloaded the link) when the link is edited?

If I have created the link and downloaded the file afterwards, do I get an email notification as well?

Hi there - good to hear from you again :)

LDM does not send email announcements when a link is edited. Is this an important feature? (it might get added in the vb 4 version if there is a real need) - but be aware that this could cause a serious performance hit with sites where there is a lot of user access, because it can only work if LDM's records of downloads are kept permanently in the database.

[Ipuck]

Hi there - good to hear from you again :)

LDM does not send email announcements when a link is edited. Is this an important feature? (it might get added in the vb 4 version if there is a real need) - but be aware that this could cause a serious performance hit with sites where there is a lot of user access, because it can only work if LDM's records of downloads are kept permanently in the database.

Hello Andrew

Thank you for taking the time to response.

I get it now.

Since the number of hits gets very large (over 10,000 every week) I erase all the hits weekly and that's the reason LDM is no longer sending the notifications. Hit erase=no notification.

I wasn't sure how LDM worked and I was worry it was going to overload my server every time a link was updated. I only have 1k emails per day.

Thanks again and I hope you feeling better now.

[Alfa1]

Andrew has passed away on April 22nd after a long illness.
His obituary can be found here:
http://www.eirma.org/activities/Obituary.pdf

I assume that this likely means the end of his popular Links and Downloads Manager. It has always been my impression that LDM was a work of art that Andrew devoted a substantial amount of time/years to. He was quite dedicated to the creation and development of LDM.

[ctrlbrk]

Oh wow, that is so sad. Andrew was a fantastic guy, always so willing to help anyone and spend so much of his own time to help others.

My condolences to his family, his wife and son. He will be missed.

Mike

[Simon Lloyd]

Oh wow, that is so sad. Andrew was a fantastic guy, always so willing to help anyone and spend so much of his own time to help others.

My condolences to his family, his wife and son. He will be missed.

MikeCouldn't have said it better myself, he was very selfless, always seemed to put others first.

A great guy, sadly missed!

[maasland]

Very sad indeed. Fare thee well, AndrewD...

[TheLastSuperman]

Andrew has passed away on April 22nd after a long illness.
His obituary can be found here:
http://www.eirma.org/activities/Obituary.pdf

I assume that this likely means the end of his popular Links and Downloads Manager. It has always been my impression that LDM was a work of art that Andrew devoted a substantial amount of time/years to. He was quite dedicated to the creation and development of LDM.

What?! Sad... he was online last month and now... what a mess, I too feel very sorry for his Wife and Son.

However, Re-usable Code is listed up above so someone can carry on the work and honor his name!

Can I request vb.org admins make an announcement on this? Give him some credit, honor his name a little? Not often a good coder passes, I hope to never see this again for a while tbo. - Thoughts, Admins?

[whitetigergrowl]

This is sad. :(

[Eric]

My condolences to his family, friends, and everyone who knew him. I never got the chance to speak with him, or actually use this wonderful modification - but it seems like he was a great guy. Such a shame, and such a big loss.

As far as LDM is concerned, unless someone else has plans to do this, since it's marked re-usable - I would love to work on this modification. I realize there is already a version for vBulletin 4 - but maybe some work could be done on the 3.8 version (bug fixes, new features, etc.), since not everyone will be in a hurry to upgrade to vB 4.

[obmob]

Andrew dedicated all his efforts on the vb4 version, and usually only left older versions for support and no furthere development.

He was indeed a great person, and some of us had a chance to help him a little, still, not much.

[biome.pat]

Oh wow. I literally gasped when I read that line of the description... I'd just been thinking about the time he helped me out, and went into my setup and fixed things for me, just because he could. I can't say I knew him, but even before I read about his passing, I was thinking about what a genuinely nice person he seemed to be.

Honestly, I don't deserve to be this sad over someone I've never had the pleasure of meeting, but... just wow... :(

I'm just really sorry to hear this.

[Zookie]

As far as LDM is concerned, unless someone else has plans to do this, since it's marked re-usable - I would love to work on this modification. I realize there is already a version for vBulletin 4 - but maybe some work could be done on the 3.8 version (bug fixes, new features, etc.), since not everyone will be in a hurry to upgrade to vB 4.

I know you posted this months ago but I wanted to ask if you were still interested in pursuing this? As others have said, it would indeed be a shame if LDM died. My dependence on it is one of the reasons I'm not planning to ever upgrade beyond vB 3.8.

[Zookie]

I've run into a small problem with LDM. I'm using it on a vB 3.8.4 installation. When an IE user signs in to my forum without checking the "Remember Me?" checkbox, they are sent to the site's sign-in page when they try to submit an uploaded file. If they check the Remember Me box when they sign in there's no problem.

This problem only seems to be with Internet Explorer. I've tested Firefox, Chrome, Opera, Safari and Netscape and none of them have this problem.

[Simon Lloyd]

it could be down to your forums environments i.e expired passwords ro a custom feild in the users details/options that needs to be filled in?

[Zookie]

it could be down to your forums environments i.e expired passwords ro a custom feild in the users details/options that needs to be filled in?
I don't think so. I've tested this with two standard user accounts (and old one and a new one) as well as my own admin account. Same bug manifests in IE for all accounts. No bug manifests when using any other browser with any other account. No problem with posting to existing threads or creating new threads. But the user gets signed out when they try to upload a list if they didn't check the "Remember Me?" box when they signed in. This is definitely an IE related bug in LDM or at least a problem with my installation.

If you are using LDM then try it yourself. Sign into your forum using IE8 without checking the "Remember Me?" box and see what happens when you submit a file for upload. If you don't experience the bug then it's something wrong with my installation. If you do then it's a bug in LDM (or something wrong with both of our installations - which seems an unlikely coincidence).

[Simon Lloyd]

I did as you ask, logged out, logged back in without remember me, i downloaded a file no problem and created an entry and uploaded a file no problem, i didn't get redirected at all, i could export my product and you could upload and overwrite to your site and see how you go? (you would need to export your product first so you can revert later)

[Alfa1]

I've run into a small problem with LDM. I'm using it on a vB 3.8.4 installation. When an IE user signs in to my forum without checking the "Remember Me?" checkbox, they are sent to the site's sign-in page when they try to submit an uploaded file. If they check the Remember Me box when they sign in there's no problem.

This problem only seems to be with Internet Explorer. I've tested Firefox, Chrome, Opera, Safari and Netscape and none of them have this problem.
Im not experiencing this issue either. I am on vb3.8.6
Could it be a hack conflicting?

You can also consider to add a hack to activate the remember me box at all times.

I know you posted this months ago but I wanted to ask if you were still interested in pursuing this? As others have said, it would indeed be a shame if LDM died. My dependence on it is one of the reasons I'm not planning to ever upgrade beyond vB 3.8.
I doubt that I will upgrade to vb4 anytime soon, so I'd be very happy with updates.

One thing I would be very, very happy with, is if someone would fix the vbadvanced module to show the latest files in vba. (ldm_new.php) This module adds 8 bizarre queries and adds 0.73706 seconds to page load. I'd like to display that module 3 times on my homepage. Unfortunately it brings my server down.

[viper357]

Does anyone run this with the thread autocreate option turned on? It works fine, but I have also enabled the autocreate_require_userok option, but when adding a link I see no option where I can choose whether or not to create a thread when adding a link.

[Simon Lloyd]

I have it turned on but do not allow the user to choose if they want the thread creating, so it works fine for me :)

[viper357]

but do not allow the user to choose if they want the thread creatingIs there another setting for that somewhere? That is the part I am struggling with, I want the users to have the option to choose whether or not to create a thread, but I just can't figure it out. Thanks.

[Simon Lloyd]

It's in AdminCp>Links and Downloads>Settings>Thread and Post Creation
autocreate_require_userok If enabled, threads are only created when explictly requested by the submitting user. By default, if autocreate_active is active and a valid forum is provided, all new entries will trigger the creation of a new thread.

I have never switched it on but the user has to choose a parent forum that they have permission to post to and set this
Hide EntryIf set, entry is only visible to users with can_view_hidden privilege. Other permissions and settings can further restrict visibility.

To no (i believe) so that the entry can be seen.

[viper357]

Thanks, I'll give that a try.

[Alfa1]

Does anyone know if LDM works well on MySQL 5.5 and php 5.3?

[Simon Lloyd]

Alfa1 the MySql shouldn't be a problem however the PHP might i had it working fine on PHP 5.2.16

[Alfa1]

Thanks!

I am specifically wondering about this: http://tracker.vbulletin.com/browse/VBIV-12134

[Simon Lloyd]

I see what you mean, will if thats the case it will be a labourious job to check all the queries that Andrew had written and change them.

[Alfa1]

I wonder if anyone has this running with php 5.3

[Vinyljunky]

I wonder if anyone has this running with php 5.3

Im running ok on 5.2.10

[Alfa1]

1100 entries in my LDM have dead links in the description field, due to copy -pasting of text.
I need to remove all links from the description field, so that only plain text remains in that field.

Does anyone know what query I could use to do this?

[Ipuck]

Any one try using this with php 5.3? my server is forcing me to move to 5.3.

[Alfa1]

Yes, php 5.3 is no problem for LDM.

[Simon Lloyd]

1100 entries in my LDM have dead links in the description field, due to copy -pasting of text.
I need to remove all links from the description field, so that only plain text remains in that field.

Does anyone know what query I could use to do this?Make a backup of the table first and run this in the sql query for local_linkslink table
DELETE FROM `local_linkslink` WHERE `local_linkslink`.`linkdesc` LIKE '%something.com%'I've not tested it but it should be pretty close to what you need :)

[Alfa1]

Thanks for the help Simon. I resolved this last year.

[Simon Lloyd]

Lol, sorry, i must have misread the date, oh well, better late than never :)

[Ipuck]

I'm glad to inform that LDM works great with 3.8.7 PL3 and PHP 5.3.10 :D. I'm a happy camper now. Thanks AndrewD where ever you are.

[viper357]

I'm not sure if this is an error because of php 5.3.13 but can anyone help as to why I have this at the top of my LDM pages?

Warning: uksort() [function.uksort (http://www.marineaquariumsa.com/function.uksort)]: Array was modified by the user comparison function in [path]/includes/local_links_include.php on line 1587

Thanks.

:o Nevermind, found the solution here --> https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?p=1970099#post1970099

[Blueracer66]

R.I.P. Andrew! :(

[reitube]

I soved this just for links.

Go to ./includes, open local_links_main_fetch.php

go to row 827 and 833 and change

eval(print_standard_redirect($vbphrase['ll_redirect'],0));

to

eval(print_standard_redirect($vbphrase['ll_redirect'],0,0,$languageid,true));

This solves the link problem by bypassing the rewrite whitelist.
'cause I don't use other features I have no other things checked.

Best regards,

[WebMonster2013]

Damm, Rest in peace man.

[zipmaker]

R.I.P. Andrew! :(

Andrew D passed away in April 2010 after a long period of illness.
R.I.P.

[farsgsm]

does anyone know how to set LDM show filesize more than 2 gigabytes?
because max filesize that will be shown in the file lists are 2 gigabyte

I mean that if i add a file with 3 gigabyte size, then ldm shows that it is 2 gigabyte.
files below 2gigabytes it shows correct filesize

[Alfa1]

I had an importer created for LDM to various other gallery/downloads solutions.