I'm sorry, I'm not quite understanding point 1, and I can't help without point 2 without taking a look. Pls send me a pm with site details and an admin u/name and pwd.

thanks
PM sent

Thanks for the quick reply Andrew! I will ask the guys over at vbdrupal about changing their function name. How much code modification would it take to get your mod to work? So I just change the name of the function and the code that references that function and it's all good?

I'll check it out!

Thanks,

Sean

Andrew, I made the changes and the program is working fine!

Thanks for the quick and very informative reply!

You're doing a great job supporting your awsome FREE program!

Sean

WOW! Andrew has had a lot of posts this week... :D

Great Job, Great Job!

Already translating spanish phrases... it's the best i can do for LDM! :)

As per PM, just for the record...

Boy, the first problem (images not shown when forum turned off) is a bit obscure...

The image that is shown on the portal is actually constructed "on the fly", not read directly from the file. The script that creates it (local_resize.php) is being told that your forums are switched off, so does not run.

The fix is to edit local_resize.php, find the line

and comment it out, i.e.

I'll fix this in the next release.


As far as I can see this working correctly. I gave your (my) usergroup an allowance of 1 file and 292K per day, downloaded benjamin once, then tried to download it a second time and it told me that I had used up all my allowances.

LDM deliberately allows you to exceed your bandwith allowance with the current transfer, i.e. if downloading the file will take you over the allowance, that's ok, but it will not start the download if the allowance is already exceeded.


Another point - for your sample download (benyamin.zip), you had set up both the entry and the image using a full url to your own site. This works, but it will be *much* more expensive in server load than giving just the filename relative to your site, i.e. just as /downloads/music/albums/benyamin/Benyamin - 85.zip. I've edited the example to show you what I mean. This downloads faster and places less load on your server.



Noted - several people have asked for this - it requires a bit of redesign to do this cleanly, so I will think whether/how to best handle your request.

Let me know that everything is now ok.

thank you Andrew for your time and help
it wasn't working before, so i tried everything and then asked you for help.
could you please tell me what was the reason it wasn't working? (any settings i may have forgotten?!...)

i have first entered in the same way you explained, but somehow the images were not being shown, so i just done some testings :D


once again i would like to thank you for your support.
everything is working perfect.

I didn't do anything!! One of the great mysteries of life...

Hi there Andrew.

Thank you for your response earlier.. :)

I have a new issue.

We have the Terms of Use Accept/Decline turned on. I know that when you had it set up so it showed when they downloaded, there was an issue with folks using a download manager.. well we are running into a similiar issue, but most are not using a download manager.

Here is thread where I'm asking them to define their environment.

http://www.gottapixel.net/forum/showthread.php?t=6558

The issue is that when they click Accept, it looks like it's forwarding them, but instead, sends them back to the Accept/Decline page. We *really* want to use this feature on the site as there is a lot of sharing of graphic files and a reminder is always nice ;) Any ideas?

One of your users has remarked that they can prevent the problem by temporarily turning off their firewall. I think this gives a hint.

LDM records that people 'accept' the terms of agreement by storing a cookie on their PC. This cookie lasts for 24 hours. If, for any reason, the PC refuses to create the cookie, or if LDM is not told about it, then I realise that the software will get thrown into this loop and keep asking the same question.

I had missed this possibility - it may be related to the growing concern around the web about security. I will have to find a different approach. In the meantime, it will be very helpful to learn what firewall and what antivirus software people are using who experience this problem.

If

One user did reply back.

I will see if I can't get the rest of them to respond on what firewall they have as well.

One more thing.. it seems that bbcodes aren't working. I checked and we have "allow bbcodes" turned on.. but all it does is show the code, and not actually implement them.

Funny - I don't seem to be able to turn them off on my test site - they always seem t work even when I tell them not to...

I can see at least one example of a failed bbcode on your site, in http://www.gottapixel.net/forum/loca...s.php?catid=41

I can't get to the bottom of this with admin access to your site, so if you wish, send me a username and pwd.

On the previous matter, I've made the code changes to cope with difficult firewalls, so it should be easy to fix this problem. Let's get to the bottom of your bbcode problem before we make any changes.

Have you got BBCodes enabled on your main VB admincp (VB/Admincp/Options/BBCode Settings)?

I have a question for you, don't know if this is the right place to add it or not, but I am wondering if it is possable to add fields to it. specifically the following....

ok specifically, I am looking to add 1 set of fields to the uploads area, this field would be a row of special version icons / or text that would be included in the file view, or posted so that when they go through a catagory of files, they wil be able to see what version it is for. like EPack 1, EPack2 and so on.

Examp.

[ ] Version 1 [ ] Version 2 [ ] Version 3 [ ] Version 4 [ ] Version 5
[ ] Version 6 [ ] Version 7

Is something like this possable to do, to add.? and it dont have to be searchable, just someting to add a litle extra information to the download itself?

Thanks in Advance, and if I posted this in the wrong place, please dont shoot me

Oh, it would be nice to add something like that... that way i could give my users wallpapers in different sizes... but i guess this is not plausible at the moment... of course, i might be wrong :p

well i know the catagory image mod for VB interacted with LDB perfectly cause when i added that, it went and added the cat images from VB main to the LDB and I changed them to fit my needs there.

Someting, ( as you mentioned) with or for different sizes per say, but mine would be like for diferent versions with either a text message or maybe a small image with a check box next to it those would be for all the files. I would have to make someting on a image to show if the person or persons knowing how to under stand it.

Of just extra fields per say to add to it would even be more helpfull

Is it possible to make it so uploads can be submitted to another domain? I want to have the file server on one domain on a different machine and the web server on another.

This is not possible, for security reasons. PHP can only handle uploads onto its own system.

You never got back to me on the last problem - are things working?

There have been a few other requests for additional user fields. I'll give this some thought, although it will not be until 2.2.7 at the earliest. I want to get 2.2.6 finished - been promising this for a month now...

what is the estimated time for the full 2.2.6 AndrewD ?? i've been waiting day by day.. everyday come and look at this thread.. only 2.2.6beta1 ..hehe..

thanks for the hard work

XD

I know, I know. I didn't want to make 2.2.6 'official' until I was certain that the bugs were all identified and corrected. I'm pretty sure that this is now the case, so let me promise that it will go gold this weekend (unless of course someone finds something to stop me...)

i am excited .. it's 3AM here and still checking on your hack :D .. today is saturday .. that meant in no time now .. heheh ..

thanks Andrew

I finally caught up with everyone, upgrading both my VB to 3.6.2 and my LDM to 2.2.6. I ended up having the problem with the constant MYSQL error e-mails like this: Anyway, I just uploaded your fixed local_links.php. The e-mails were coming in at a very consistent rate before. I'll wait through the evening before my final verdict.

One question: I ended up adjusting wait_timeout to 90 seconds when I was troubleshooting this problem. LDM told me that was a low wait_timeout setting, so I changed the setting back to default. What is an optimal wait_timeout setting?

Thanks again Andrew.

I fell into the trap of trying to be too friendly to the web server by releasing the database before everything was finished - I'd missed that VB keeps hold of some database accesses which are performed when the job finally ends. The error messages were actually telling you (not very clearly) that there was no longer a connection to the database.

I've not got right to the bottom of all the timeout settings. The basic point is to ensure that downloads complete before the database or the php script decide to give up in desparation. So, if you are offering downloads of large files - particularly if these are being streamed directly to a media player - the value for wait_timeout (and the similar value for php timeout - I can't recall its name) should be longer than the download takes to finish.

The php timeout is more critical on windows servers than on linux, as it seems to count also the time when the script has actually been told to sleep for a while. Under linux, this time is ignored.

I have uploaded the release candidate for version 2.2.6 of LDM in the first post of this thread. I would welcome reports. To upgrade, simply upload the files again and reinstall via the VB product manager. Please remember to backup your database first.

Installation - Very important

If your web site runs Microsoft's IIS web server in cgi mode (you can find this out by looking at the main VB admincp page), the php environment variable DOCUMENT_ROOT is not defined by default. This causes serious problems with the placement of files managed by LDM on your server. Version 2.2.6 of LDM detects this problem and issues a fatal error if necessary. In this case, you must edit the file includes/local_links_init.php to define LDM_DOCUMENT_ROOT. The code makes clear where to edit. Alternatively, you could patch your web server so that DOCUMENT_ROOT is correctly defined.

changes

Since the 2.2.6 beta, I believe that all reported bugs have been fixed and a few new extras provided, as follows:

new features:

VB Profile
Parameters added in plugins to configure number of 'My Entries'/'Visited Entries' to display in profile

new 'extras'

force-mp3-to-m3u converts downloads of mp3s to download a matching m3u, to force winamp, etc, to stream the file
stream-mms-videos improves the security of LDM's handling of mms: streams and adds the option to save a stream to file

bugs fixed:

bbcode, smiles, images, html admin settings work correctly and editor toolbars adjust accordingly
usernames with quotes no longer produces sql error
LDM icons can now be in gif, jpg or png format
navbar errors fixed in search module
mp3 files with no id3 image no longer crash certain versions of php
downloads into slow channels (e.g. streaming into winamp) no longer die mid-way through transfer
curl transfer work ok when urls contain spaces
invalid 'file rename' requests detected during add/edit entry form
correct messages displayed when file uploads exceed allowed space
autothread extras do a better job of displaying the associated image in the thread

Andrew,

Just got the new 2.2.6 installed.

One issue that I see right away. When you click on the magnify glass to see the full version, it used to show it correctly, now it's showing everything at 100x100. I reset thumbs hoping that would change it, but it doesn't. I know that originally, the previews are usually roughly 400x400 on our site (it's what we require for our team).

Best wishes and thank you so much for the hard work you do!
Stacy

One more small issue.

1. Go into a download.
2. Click on the comments/ratings
3. Click on the View Comments and Ratings

I get the following error:

Warning: Division by zero in /includes/local_links_include.php on line 2233

Warning: Division by zero in /includes/local_links_include.php on line 2233

In the first table that shows up, I'm not for sure what used to be there, but now all that is there is this:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/09...LD_example.jpg

Not for sure if it did this before, as I never went this deep into the comments.

Also (sorry)

When you try to edit a download, even if you don't change anything at all, you get the following error when you click submit

Fatal error: Call to undefined function: check_url() in /home/website/public_html/forum/local_links_actions.php on line 837

I can hide things, I can delete things.. I can not however upload or edit.

When I try to upload for the first time. I get this error:

Fatal error: Call to undefined function: check_url() in /home/webattit/public_html/forum/local_links_actions.php on line 445

Ophelia, please check that you have actually uploaded all the php files. It looks to me as if you still have the old local_links_actions.php file there. Line 837 in the old code refers to check_url(). Line 839 in the new code refers to check_ldm_url().

This may be the cause of your other problem too - I'll try to check.

Yes, if looks as if you also got the old local_links.php installed.

I can reproduce both of your bug reports by installing the new files in the includes directrory but the files from release 2.2.6a1 in your forums directory.

Ah man... I am so sorry for bothering you with my mess up! I paid attention to all the files except for those directly in forums :blush Uploaded the new files and all works great ;) Sorry!!!

Getting a weird mesage now when someone uploads using the prior version not 2.2.6

Im getting this message;

"This page is not designed to be access directly."

Any idead why I would be getting this message?

I have checked the permissions, they are all set correctly


never mind when i did a update to this, with 2.2.6 it fixed the problem, sorry i posted it but at leasts it info for you :)

I take it back, I dont know what happened, but after i did the updates of the extras, that i aded like the forumshome and 2 others dealing with forums home then i started to get that message again. and I did the upgrade?

Now here is a question. what would cause this to give that message above?? a small glitch with using an extra? a change in the forum i change to have the posts about the downloads go there? I am comnfused, cause all i did was upgrade , recheck the settings, add a new forum so that the LDM system will post into that topic instead of the one i had before. and that was it. ( Trying to give you the most information I can for you to help me)

So im stuck.

Again when I do a upload it takes me to the message

"This page is not designed to be access directly"

now the upload will post, but i have to click the back button 3 times to get back to where i wanted tobe at. to see it.

So again confused. I hate to bother you with this, but its the weiredest thing that I cant figure out.

Thanks in Advance

I'm also confused. If you are quoting the phrase correctly, it doesn't appear anywhere in LDM or in VBulletin (not even "not designed"). Are you saying that you have other hacks installed alongside LDM? That's all I can think of - that the different hacks are interfering with each other. If you can narrow it down a bit (try disabling the plugins/hacks one at a time and find out when things work again), it may help.

I think I may have figured it out, and I dont know why this is not working, but when I install the one that you can have like a recent downloads on the main forms page, ( I added it below the Whats new area) thats when it started to give me that message,

it was iether that one, or the one that added the stats of the downloads in the whats new along side the posts, but im almost positive its when i installed the one that lets you show the latest downloads on the forums home page.

I do have several hack thype things but mostly the VBadvanced, and catagory images, VB Image hosting, and a few others here and there, all tested for 3.6 and above.

but what i di, I went and re installed the main XML file, and it stopped it from doing it again, so thats how i deducted it was that module that took it and gave me those messages.

Thanks AndrewD for helping me try to figure this one out

Ray

Thank you for the new release :)

The BBCode thing which I have reported, now works perferkt. ;)

Sorry, maybe I am blind....but how you can report a broken link?
"can_report_link" is set correctly, but I can?t find any button to report an entry.
I use the "modern" style, but also in the others I can?t find anything...

see attached image. It's the red triangle. It only appears for entries that you did not submit yourself...

OK it was my fault, sorry.^^ Have checked with an other user account and it appears. :)

is there a way to edit all entries which have a url of /forum/files to be changed to http://sitename.com/files?

I moved my hosting to have access to the machine but its a much slower file host. I left all my files on the previous host and want to just keep the path the same except lose the /forum part of it since there will no longer be forums at the old url.

even if its using the db to do it that's fine, I just don't want to go through 1 by 1 and edit them all if I don't have to. (I have a lot of files mixed in with other urls as well so I can't just edit every single entry)

I am using your hack but also had someone create a phrase and integrate it so that the welcome header box appeared the same whether logged in or not not registered. Obviously the message is different on the registered welcome header. I just like the uniform look. Maybe this could be worked into your hack?

See: http://www.warmislands.com