I'm having some issues which I only recently discovered. I suspect they started when I updated to vb3.6 a month and a half or so ago.

Previously added links work fine, as do the counters.

However, whenever I (as a forum admin) or someone else tries to add a link, nothing gets inserted. I get the small bit about "processing" after hitting submit, but nothing happens after that. I've checked my permissions (which I hadn't altered from before, I'm fairly sure), so I don't think that's the problem, though I suppose it could be - even if it is a problem though, I can only imagine an error message would be thrown if I didn't have permissions to do this.

Any thoughts?

I made an early decision (maybe right, maybe wrong) not to do full integration with the vb admincp, so the 'look and feel' is different.

However, I think the problem of vb cp pages taking over the whole screen is actually a 'cookie' or 'cache' problem. I've had this on and off over the years with all parts of the VB admincp, and the only way to solve it is to clear the cache, close the browser and start again.

Am sorry to hear this. Should I take a look at your site to check things out? Happy to do so - PM me with an admin username and pwd.

:rolleyes: oh... ok, had no idea, thanks Andrew.

I will be installing this very soon on a new board, thanks and looking forward to it :D

Hi can anybody Help ???

Check your LDM zip package there are several addons in it.

Now... i have a petition for future LDMs!!! ^^

OK, here is the idea, when you are adding a new file manually, there is no option to select keywords... you think it's possible to add a select box for this?

A similar box as the one that allows you to choose a category, but with a multioption. An maybe this could also be useful in mass edit options.

That would save a lot of time ^_^

Thanks Andrew! As Always ^^,

Thanks. Currently, the 'add entry' form includes a text box for associating keywords with the new entry. This text box is 'Ajax' enabled, so you will be shown which matching keywords are already available when you start typing. You can choose to ignore this list, and any new words you specify are 'auto added' to the database.

As I understand, you would prefer a select box which lists the currently available keywords.

So, I have these questions:

a) Is this what you are asking for?

b) What happens if there are a lot of keywords defined - the risk is that the select box will be so long that the page will never finish being displayed.

c) How will you add new words to the list?

pls see my PM

pls see my PM - the problem is (I think) that you have an old, modified LDM template stored in your database

got a problem with ldm 2.2.5.
When I place an external link to a AVI file (that users can download) ldm shows the url to the external domain. Although this happens only with Internet Explorer. With Firefox everything works fine. But when they click on the link with internet explorer the real path is given and instead of saving/opening the file IE just shows the code of the file (a page full of charachters)
how can I solve this?

Have you set up mimetype information for avi files (VB/admincp/attachments/attachment manager -> Content-type: video/avi)?

Oh... well, you are right, ajax could be a lot better, all i need is to be able to add kewywords while adding a new file or while editing a single entry. :D

Thanks Andrew

gotta love the wimpy integration!!!

I got it workin on my site and it's pretty sweet

Thank you very much! This was exactly the problem - not sure why I had that template modified, though.

I'm not sure if it my settings, but any uploaded WMA or WMV file goes ahead to load the embedded media player, but does not play.

I have the Mimes set properly to
Content-type: video/x-ms-wmv
Content-type: audio/x-ms-wma

Any ideas?

I apologize if this has been posted, I searched, couldn't find anything, but that never means anything.

We are having an issue with our Links & Download manager, but we don't know if it's related to another issue we are having so I went into admin and closed all the categories. I assumed this would shut everything down so that no one could download anything else.

When I go into the actual Links & Download Manager area on the site, on the top it shows:

Allowances: 20 files/1 used
[Closed]

But all the downloads are there to download.

Did I misunderstand what the close feature was, or is it just not working right?

Closed means closed for adding new entries. Everything that is already there remains there and accessible, and admins can also add new entries.

If you want to temporarily prevent downloads from the category, use Edit Category/User Group Permissions. You can set permissions which over-ride the master set. Be aware that these will also apply to any subcategories in the category concerned, unless you re-override them there.

Will try to think about this

I've looked everywhere for this setting but it won't allow me (THE ADMIN) to upload files bigger than 2 megs. Where do I change this.

I have upload space set to unlimited (0) and my understanding is that is just the room on the server.

Thank you so much for clarifying this :) Having a "close entire thing" option would be heaven by the way :) Thank you again for such a wonderful addon to vBulletin. It has been a huge asset to our site.

Great Addon, thank you!

I have two questions.


First the BBCode for Images doesn?t appear if you create a new entry. allow_images is set to "yes". If you write the bbcode https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/ .... Any ideas? I have created my own spoiler bbcode in my forum, can it be the reason?


If you create or edit an entry the is a option for:

Notification
Email those users who have already accessed this entry?

I want to disable this completely so nobody can choose it. How can I make it?

Stupid question ...

Where/how can I edit the text that appears in the terms of use screen? I tried to search in templates, but it didn't find anything. Would love to fine tune this :)

Also, is there a way to tell it how often to show this term? We have a daily download, and like to remind folks of the rules :)

Is there a way to turn off the downloads side of this manager?
I only wants the links part.

you need to fix this in your php.ini
if you check the key settings at the bottom of the ldm setting page you will see these settings
post_max_size 20M
upload_max_filesize 21M

it is suggested to make the upload max size a bit bigger

hi
i have two problems with LDM.
1 - when forum is turned OFF LDM doesn't work how it should or i may have forgotten to turn on some options. (entry thumb can't be shown in portal and also thread. it can not find the image somehow....)
if you need some more details or access to my site, please let me know.

2 - Bandwidth Usage is not working for me at all ( per file & per size in Bytes)

feature request for new versions:
1 - adding 2 or more links for each entry (mirror choose)

thanks in advance

guys here is an error i get when i have both the link manager and the Photopost random cmps block enabled on the same page.

Fatal error: Cannot redeclare empty_category() (previously declared in /home/maroceve/public_html/forums/includes/local_links_include.php:2935) in /home/maroceve/public_html/forums/includes/functions_gallery.php on line 2069

Anyone have a fix ? thanks :)

Yes, known problem, fixed in the 2.2.6 beta. If you want to get your hands dirty, you need to change definitions of/calls to empty_category() and delete_category() throughout the code. From 2.2.6 these will be named empty_ldm_category, etc.

Sorry for the unintended conflict.

I have a bit of an odd issue. I just moved domains but I kept the same exact file structure. I had all my files linked to /forum/files/filefolder/filename.ext but now when I click on a download it says link not available.

It then provides a link to the file and asks me to accept or modify. Clicking on the link here will get you to the file.

Is there a way I can mass update all the files or something to get it to accept the new domain?

Ah :) Stupid me I didn't have the latest version installed..

Thanks Andrew :)

is this question that hard to answer that noone using it can answer?

I have vbdrupal installed on my forum and I recently upgraded my LDM. Now I am getting this error when I try to run the program:

Fatal error: Cannot redeclare check_url() (previously declared in /var/www/html/blogs/includes/common.inc:693) in /var/www/html/forums/includes/local_links_include.php on line 1171

What can I do about this?

Thanks,

Sean

its only been 1 day since your first post has it not?

anyways, maybe set:
can_upload_files
Usergroups [with *can_add_link* permission] that can upload files for storage on the server
to no for all groups. I use this for both links and downloads though so I'm probably not the best person to answer.

It's not hard to answer. The problem is that I have other things to do, like a full time job :knockedout:

Answer depends partly on what we both mean by "turn off downloads".

Basic behaviour of LDM:

- If an entry has a filetype that appears in your VB/attachments/filetypes table, it is considered a "download". Otherwise it is considered a "link". By default, LDM accesses links by triggering a browser "redirect", and manages downloads by internally reading the contents of the entry and then transmitting the contents to the user, together with the correct control information so that the user's browser does something sensible.

- The entries that LDM manages can be created either by specifying URLs or as uploads. Uploads always turn into downloads. URLs may be links or downloads depending on the filetype. e.g. xxx.html is probably a link, and xxx.pdf is probably a download

So:

- If you do not want your users uploading onto your server, the answer is to turn off uploads. But, by default, these are turned off anyway. Take a look at the LDM/admin/settings/Controls on File Uploads

- If you mean you do not want LDM to internally manage the transfer of 'download' files, then set LDM/admin/settings/force_redirect to 1.

- If you want to 'fine tune' which users can create entries, use the combination of LDM/admin/permissions/can_add_link, can_link_files, can_upload_files

- If you want to limit which file types are treated as 'downloads', take a look at your VB/admincp/attachments/filetypes

Sean, you will have to edit one or other piece of code to rename function check_url to something else.

The difficulty is one has no control over the ways users combine pieces of software, and it is not straightorward in php to keep function definitions localised.

I've started working on this problem for 2.2.7 by introducing a new naming scheme, but it will be sometime before I am confident that nothing has been broken in the process.

If you are running v 2.2.5, this is where check_url is defined/used:

check_url (local_links_include.php)
local_links_include.php(1171)
local_links_actions.php(412)
local_links_actions.php(445)
local_links_actions.php(702)
local_links_actions.php(837)
local_links_actions.php(875)
local_links_admin.php(849)

If you are running 2.2.6 beta, these are the locations:

check_url (local_links_include.php)
local_links_include.php(1185)
local_links_actions.php(412)
local_links_actions.php(445)
local_links_actions.php(702)
local_links_actions.php(837)
local_links_actions.php(875)
local_links_admin.php(849)

The text is defined in the phrases, not in the templates. Take a look at the ll_agreement phrase, for example, so do a search/languages for the words of interest.

If the code is working correctly (!!), then acceptance is stored in a cookie and has a lifetime of 1 day plus 1 hour. If you want to change this, I'm afraid it's hard coded at present. Take a look at local_links.php. Early in the code (about line 220), there is this line:

Just change the line to the frequency with which users must confirm acceptance

Off the top of my head, I can't see why this problem exists. I'd like to understand more before suggesting how to fix. Can you PM me board details plus admin u/name and pwd or find a way of sending me a backup of the LDM database tables.

There are mass edit features in LDM/admin/categories and you can use full regular expression edits on the urls

I'll get back to you on this.


This is only shown to users who have 'can_moderate_link' LDM permission, so if you don't use moderation, just take away that permission.

Otherwise, edit the links_addnewlink template, and find this sequence:

and change to

I played around with this and could not make things go wrong with wmas or wmvs. However, I could get WMP to behave the way you say for mp3s (fires the jukebox and then just stalls), but it seemed to be a problem inside the WMP browser control - basically, if I clicked the WMP video window, clicked on 'stop' a few times, then closed all browser windows and restarted, then things would work ok again. Not a very good answer, I know.

Thanks for reporting this - it is a bug in 2.2.5 and 2.2.6 beta. It will be fixed soon.