I believe it was 1.26 I was running before. Would it be hard for me to change it over to fopen instead of cURL?

AS far as I can tell from the code, if nothing has changed on your site, then the guts of LDM that handle the download have not changed. cURL is only used if your site admin has switched off the allow_url_fopen switch in your php.ini file. As I said, you can tell that by checking at the bottom of one of the LDM admin pages - if it says 'allow_fopen' is 0 and cURL 1 then it's using cURL rather than the simpler php code. In that case, you would have to re-enable allow_fopen.

If fopen is on, then I'm stuck. I attach some code that you can use to check the raw download speed from your site to a pc - just unzip and upload it into a subdirectory called eg speedtest and point your browser at speedtest/speedtest4.php

I really appreciate you working with me on this one, so Thank you again!

Anyhow, it appears its using fopen:

Links and Downloads Database
Code 2.0.6
MySQL 4.0.21-nt
PHP 4.3.9
allow_url_fopen Yes
cURL Yes
GD2 Yes
open_basedir

Here's the speedtest link, I got 24KBps. Here's a link to a video file on the same server so you can test your normal speeds: http://videos.observedtrials.net/coustellier.mpg

Matt

Is giving me 333.808 Kbps. I think the fault lies not in ourselves, but your ISP. :)

Theres a difference between KB and Kb.

little b = bits, as in 8 bits per byte
big B = bytes, as in 8x the size of a bit.

so if you were getting 333Kbps, that would be 333/8 = 41.625KBps, a pretty shabby speed considering most cable nowadays is 3-5Mbit/sec or like 375-625KBps Besides, I have testers everywhere, its not my ISP :p.

Try getting the video, welo.

Matt

Matt, the straight link to the mpg comes to me at 230 KB/s, i.e a couple of minutes for the 35meg file. The php speed test is reporting 26 KB/sec, i.e. abouit one tenth of that speed. That speed test is a standard script I pulled from a French website which throws a large file at the browser and times the delivery. There's a bottleneck somewhere.

Yeah, I wish I knew where the bottleneck was.

my php info: http://www.observedtrials.net/info.php

I notice that your php has output_buffering set to 4096 and you're running a windows box. A google search took me to an article http://www.phpbuilder.com/board/show...php?t=10257783 which suggests putting output_buffering to On. You'll find a similar comment in http://fr.php.net/configuration

Worth trying?

My bust. 330.947 Kbps = 41.368 KBs. For me your video comes in at a straight download of ~170KBs. Since you're on a Win box not much coherent advice I can offer.

Definitely worth trying, I'll change it when I get home and have my php book :o

Welo, thanks for clarifying... I thought that there was just miscommunication :).

Thanks guys,

Matt

sweet so that means whats hot could possibly be sorted into maybe whats hot today / this week / over all ;)

I'm having a few problems with the 2.0.6 beta when changing the global names in local_links_init and the file names accordingly.

I've pinned down one cause, in the includes/acmincp/xml file you're not using the globals yet :D. But otherwise there's something else going on somewhere that's having the same effect. For instance, I go to create a new category after installation and click submit and it gives an error saying that local_links_admin.php can't be found instead of using the new global name. Except the category is actually added as it should be. Aside from the error it works fine.

The forum jump menu seems to appear even if you've turned it off in forum permissions/admincp as well.

Thanks - this was careless of me. One of the defines is wrong.

The forum jump menu should only appear in a few places (i.e. add/edit link, add/edit category). It's a side effect of the way vbulletin and LDM are coded - I will see if it is easy to suppress.

Hi Andrew I hav a problem fromupgrading 2.0.5 to 2.0.6. Installation went through perfect but after the installation the only thing i get :

Critical error: different versions of software, templates, phrases and database.
Software: 2.0.6 database: 2.0.5
Cannot continue - ask administrator to correct.

I double check ach step and i am not doing anything wrong. Is there a way to upgrade only the templates ?

You're the second to hit this - I don't understand why it happens sometimes.

Just use the product manager to uninstall and reinstall - you won't lose anything.

That worked out. Thanks.
I am not sure but maybe because i customized the templates before so before installation we need to revert th templates.

Re: output_buffering

Andrew, sorry for the late response, I had to leave for a business trip last night after work and didn't have a chance to change it. Luckily the hotel has wireless so I edited my php.ini tonight and ran some tests.

As far as I can tell, my download speeds using the download manager are at around 100-120KBps. This is a significant improvement :D. It's hard to tell here from this hotel with their mediocre connection, and I'm not sure how well a computer downloads when you're watching it on RDC and its uploading a fair bit - so I'm not sure exactly where I'm at with it. Anyhow, the links again are:

speedtest: http://www.observedtrials.net/speedtest/speedtest4.php
regular file download: http://videos.observedtrials.net/coustellier.mpg
LDM file download: http://www.observedtrials.net/vb/loc...ion=jump&id=92
php info: http://www.observedtrials.net/info.php

If anyone would care to help me here, I would much appreciate any advice you have. I am a poor coder, but I am have books and google and am willing to dedicate time and trial and error.

Thank you everyone,

Matt

Matt, it looks as if things are better, but I think they are still not great. Via the script, your video now comes to me at about 53 kB/sec, which is about a two-fold improvement.

I have one suggestion to try in the LDM code. Edit local_links_include.php - look for the line which reads and try increasing the size, e.g. to 204800 (i.e. a much bigger buffer]. This doesn't make a significant difference on our Linux server but it is worth seeing whether Windows cares.

Andrew, I believe that has done the trick, a friend at a university said he was getting 650KBps off the server using LDM now. You are the man! Thanks for everything :D.

Matt

how do you upload stuff ?

i dont wanna use it for the links but just for downloads help?

This thing aint working for me

no matter the imput i put on it still says its too larg

Great! I can see the difference too - in this hotel, its reaching me at 200 kB/sec, which isn't bad at all.

Did you use the very large value I suggested? - i.e. about quarter of a megabyte?

Good old Bill G.

Check on these points:

What size and what type of file are you trying to upload?
What is the maximum filesize for this file type set in your main VB/admincp/attachments/extensions and sizes
What values are configured into your php.ini (VB/maintenance/phpinfo) for the following settings: *upload_max_filesize* and *post_max_sizecode*

I have 2 issues:

1. when a user tries to download something it makes it to about 2 megs and stops.
2. it is not recording the hits when a user clicks to download

any suggestions?

You are probably using all the cpu time allowed for php scripts (typically 30 seconds - maybe you have to increase this)

Where is the download coming from (your own server or somewhere else - expensive) and how do you have it recorded in LDM.

If the file is on your own machine, then are you identifiying it as http://yoursite/file or simply as /file? - the second will be much faster.

Take a look at the section in instructions.txt about speed versus security

On the second, the hit is only recorded when the download completes successfully.

Let me know if these suggestions don't help

How would I go about increasing this?

It is coming from my server.

ok. I was using http://yoursite/file, but i just changed it to /file? and now it is telling me that the link check failed, but when i click the link next to the "link check failed" text it is going to the correct file. ???

I have local_file_root set to 0

ok... I changed force_redirect to 1, local_file_root to 1, and moved the files to a directory not in the web directory. One of the files works fine although slow. I have another file with the same ./uploads/file.zip location, but it keeps telling me the link check failed. I have checked the server multiple times and checked the spelling and everything is correct. Any idea why it won't find the file?

Edit the php.ini file


If you cant get to the bottom of this, pm me with details of your board and an account with admin privs and Ill take a look. Mazbe Sunday as Im travelling

On your speed problems, what sort of machine are you using as a server. Windows or Linux and which web server. There are some tweaks we have just sorted out for Windows systems

Yessir, 204800

Thanks again,

Matt

Andrew .. i hav a question...
i like the script a lot... but in my forum i basically will be sharing artists demo music.. so its painful to add media files everytime... is it possible to make a directory listing of specific folder.. and users can download?
Thanx~

If you take a look at LDM/admin/import and export, see if the Scan Directory feature is what you were looking for - it will basically do a directory search and auto create the entries for you.

*request* this might have been requested before but maybe custom fields for links / downloads ?

I think something like this is needed, but I need to think through how to do this cleanly.

Thanks.

Hi Andrew, did you come up with an idea on this?

Bear with me - I've been travelling and in meetings for the last week and there's a few other things to deal with to get 2.0.6 properly released. I'll try to give you an answer in a few days.

This instruction somewhat confuses me.

When I go to Language Manager --> Upload Langugage, i am encountered with following option:

--> Overwrite Language : What should i select from drop-down menu? Should i create a new language? Would overwriting language have any implications?

Please guide me.

Regards

If you want just a single language installation of LDM, then install it using one of the three product loaders, i.e. product_eirma_ldm.xml (English), product_eirma_ldm_fr.xml (French) or product_eirma_ldm_de.xml (German)

If you run a multi-language board and you have already installed the main French or German Vbulletin translation, then you can 'add on' the LDM phrases into that language - VBulletin -> Admincp -> Download/Upload Languages -> Upload Language -> Overwrite Language (French/German). This will *include* the additional phrases and will not destroy what was already there.

Thanks for sharing this hack, Andrew.

One question. I´ve already installed LDM in english, tried to switch to german and to import the german-language via the phrase-manager - but it keeps on telling me "This file only contains phrases, but none of the necessary values. It´s not possible to create a new language with this file".
Even with the option "Overwrite" anabled.

Any help aprecciated - any ideas ?

Which file are you trying to import into the German language? With the language installer, you should use development/phrases/phrases_de.xml. The product installer in release/product-eirma_ldm_de.xml is used if you simply want to install one language (i.e. German).

I've juyst tried this and it seems to work ok to me. Let me know if you still have problems.

Thanks for your fast reply, Andrew.

I did it exactly the way as you described it. But still no go..
May be you?ve got some extra time to join me in the chat room ?