The version 3.0 code did intergrate with vbadvanced, as far as I know. When I have a chance to look, I'll test it out.

If your site is 'Broken Surf Forums', it looks as if everything is installed properly - what's the problem?

that would be awesome if you could. I know its a huge investment of time ...but I still got my fingers crossed.

fair enough. that's not really what I wanted to imply either. both are great hacks.

just as a "consumer"... its such a waste to have to use both hacks to get to use features that are wanted/needed. it still comes down to a person's personal preference, I'm just saying, I'd choose this hack definitively if those two things alone where a part of the hack (and I'll assert that other people would as well).

NOT trying to breed competittion... just being selfish and saying what I love if you could throw in. ;) :p :D heehee.

in any case, thanks for the all the help and this awesome hack. :D I'll keep checking in and reporting any bugs or whatever if I find em. :nervous:

are you going to the map downloads section? Thats edownloads but with yours I can't set a directory.

No, I went to http://brokensurf.com/forums/local_links.php, where I can see an empty installation.

I'm not sure I understand 'can't set a directory' - do you mean you can't set a value for monitor_dir? PM me with an admin account + more details, and I'll gladly take a look.

I need to set the local_file_root and monitor_dir but i am not sure how.

Logged on as an admin, you either go to local_links.php and select Admin/Settings and Permissions, or you go directly to local_links_admin.php. You'll find the whole set of permissions/settings there.

You set local_file_root either to 0 or 1. If you set it to zero, then any subsequent download file which is identified using a local directory/file name (e.g. /dir/file.pdf) is assumed to sit at http://yoursite/dir.pdf. If you set it to 1, then it is actually assumed to be /dir/file.pdf in terms of the web server's file system.

Advantage of using 1 is to hide files from prying eyes, but you then need to be careful who has permission to set up new downloads, so that they don't start linking to systems files you want to keep private.

Depending on how you set local_file_root, you might also want to set local_file_root_prefix. This is simply a string that gets added to the front of all local directory/files, e.g. if you set it to /dir2, then the previous example will automatically map to /dir2/dir/file.pdf

You can set monitor_dir on the same page, or on the admin/import & export page. It holds one or a comma separated list of directories, any of which can end with a wild card *., e.g. /dir1 or /dir1/* It defines the directory(ies) which are searched during an Admin/Import & Export/Scan for new files

AndrewD, was version 2.0.5 going to be released anytime soon? Just checking, sir. ;)

It's sitting live on my site, but I'd held off because the changes are deep in the guts and I want to be sure that there are no new bugs. I also thought I'd deal with the questions about VbAdvanced and a prettier 'front page', see a few posts back. Perhaps this weekend.

Ok, just checking, sir. ;)

If you need any help testing, let me know. ;)