With the new 2.0.7RC (not the first one), you can edit any of the links_linkbit templates and include the following
It is not possible to include its position in the 'hits' when you are not sorting by hits. However, you can use the $linkhit variable simply to show where the entry is in the current sort order.

I'm translating LDM to hebrew, could someone point me to where the Links and Downloads Database phrases are?
I mean I need to translate :
"Most popular entries during the last 30 days:"
"During the last 30 days:" etc.
can't seem to find it with phrase search...

The phrases files sit in /development/phrases - if you take the English file as your model and post your results here, I'll make sure that the release also includes a product loader for Hebrew

just what i need cheers mate :D

OK thanks, I'll upload in half an hour

works a dream whats the condition to get this to work in "whats hot"

cheers

edit local_links_include.php, around line 1300 or so, function get_links2; a few lines later, just before the line insert a line , then patch the links_vbalinks template in the same way as the linkbit. I'll make this change to the php in the final release.

*Edited* - except that you don't have the variable $sort available, so there's no point making a check on it

I'm having some troubles translating due to encoding issues, but it will be solved.

few questions, though : can a message box be added at the top of the entry page of LDM so it will be used for writing short terms and conditions or short messages for users? Which template should be modified?

I'm using vBadvanced. I have created a navbar entry for LDM and the LDM is accessed without a problem from inside the forums (linking to mydomain.com/forums/local_links.php?) but the link at the vBadvanced is linking to mydomain.com/local_links.php? :ermm:

thanks for the updates andrew. I'll be sure to test it out more tonight, but one thing that might be handy is a confimation notice for the delete button. Sometimes I accidentally hit the wrong button and I'd hate to lose something that way.

Tower of Babel and all that..

links_main - you need a conditional test on $viewcatid being equal to -1, which is the base category.

What have you set as the url for the navbar link? should it look something like $vbulletin->options['bburl']/local_links.php

good point - especially on the 'mass edit' delete!

Yeah, it was nasty...


Maybe I'm retarded (which I probably am) but , hmmm... may be some more info? would really appreciate it :D

local_links.php?$session[sessionurl_q]">links , etc

Immediately before include something like Is vbadvanced sitting in another directory than /forums? You need to for the full url. Try putting $vboptions[bburl]/ in front of local_links.php

Not the Z ... just not the Z. Ican put up with X and Y but the Z , it's waaay too much!

Thanks, it worked like a charm...

BTW tower of babel and all that, a friend of mine translates the LDM phrases to russian as we speak...

Hello AndrewD, I use your download manager version 2.0.4 for VB 3.5gold ..the purpose of using your download system is to host music files on the site and some video files as well, but I notice when download a large file the script only open one concurrent connection per file, is there anyway you can make the download manager script to open up 3 concurrent connection per download? ....while the path is hidden ..
thank you

Mike

Andrew you need to add the new templates to the precache list ;)

links_linkbit_short
links_catjump

I added these two but there may be more that I missed.

where is the prompt to add categories? can't find it

UPDATE: found it finally. wasn't showing up in the ADMINCP.

YES, very nice hack. can you show hottest links or specific category links on forumhome? not with vbadvanced

Very Nice AndrewD ;)

File attach: French language for v 2.0.7RC update :)

Click Install

Mike, as per PM:

Thanks - I'll add this to the list of things to think about! - Is the download speed an issue for you? If so, does the problem relate to files coming from your own server or being processed through your server from another site? And what operating system is the server using? If Windows, we discovered a serious performance glitch, which has been corrected in later versions of LDM.

Yes, I need to keep the debug switch turned on, don't I! Thanks.

That's great!

About a year ago, people were having problems with an earlier version, which only showed up when they were using Bulgarian and Korean translations. Now that really taxed my tiny brain. We got to the bottom of it!

Merci beaucoup, Allan.

Easiest way is to create forums which are redirects to the the category of interest, ie. use local_links.php?catid=N as the link. For standard categories, LDM will create these automagically within Add Category (look down the bottom of the form).

For What's hot, etc, you just give a negative catid:
What's Hot: -7
What's New: -8
Just hover the mouse over the Show drop down menu to find out the catid's for the various options.

If you want these to expand into showing a list of the actual hot, new, etc, entries on forumhome, I can't think offhand how you would achieve this without using the portal interface. Perhaps a plugin could be written.

Nice extension but its interface is a bit confusing. I like the interface of vbadvanced Link manager better: http://www.vbadvanced.com/links/

It keeps the same looks and feels of Vbulletin. Have you ever considered a interface change for this extension, AndrewD?

I like the interface just the way it is. The one you linked to has a lot of wasted space and columns that have no need to be there. ;)

andrew on the short bit template the stats get all scrunched up at the end like:and the entries without a thumbnail get displayed as if there was a thumbnail to display (moves the title over)

also I think it would be nice if we could choose whether to add the descriptions to the side of the thumbnails or underneath it (for banner-like images). And maybe add a short-bit description input field on the add/edit link page so that we could use more than just the link title in the short bit.

*edit*
I was just thinking it'd be nice also to be able to define which template to use by the category. so one category could be the normal links bit and another could be the short links bit template.

it seems all the gif images come up with a black background even when it seems transparent.

I modified the template, and came up with THIS :D

Hello Andrew, the file hosted on local server not offsite, and I'm running on linux ...the speed is kinda slow on one connection ..usually with two connections open would increase speed better ...could you please help ..thank you ..

Mike

Very nice Vtec44.

Each to their own! Actually, I tend to agree with you - the various bits and pieces have been added over time as people have asked for more and more. The virtue of the VB template based system is that you can always slim things down, redesign, etc. I will be delighted to distribute other templates, but graphics design is not my core competence!

1) What is your screen resolution? 2) I thought you would prefer to have the descriptions aligned vertically, but its an easy edit of the template to change.


Again, the first is just a template edit - I think you should really do this yourself - preferences will be very individual and site specific. The second is worth thinking about - but again, people are starting to complain that the input forms get too complex, so one starts needing extra switches and there's more to go wrong. Another option would be simply to trim the field down to a certain number of characters. Only problem with that is that one has to be very careful if people put bbcodes, etc, in the field - you can end up killing a bbcode in the middle.


What about letting the user choose, and keeping the choice in a cookie?


I noticed that too, I thought I'd put transparency settings into them, but something seems to have gone wrong along the way. Will take a look when I'm back home.

Thanks.


Here's my code for links_catbit template


Here's my code for links_subcatbit template
NOTE: I'M STILL USING v2.05 so you may need to modify for it to be compatible with newer versions.

Andrew is of course free to use this. Thanks for all the support you provided. :D

Here's a screen shot of how it should look with a few new links added:

AndrewD,

Here you are the spanish phrases, sorry for the delay. I just finished the translation, i am not shure if there is errors, i just install the phrases, so right now i am checking for errors on my site.

Para los que las vayan a usar, un par de detalles:

Las frases son en español, pero tienen un cierto estilo mexicano.
No me puse a revisar los acentos, si alguien lo hiciera, seria excelente.
Suerte. =)

Thanks again for this extension.

Hi AndrewD :) .. yes I've finally joined the dark side and have downloaded 3.5 .. so I thought I'd install 2.0.7rc and see how you're getting on :)

Lots of new toys! :D

Couple of things that I've noticed on the front page, where it lists the top 10 pop entries and how many cats/entries .. it doesn't remember the collapsible table at all. The "Links and Downloads Database" table is something I would prefer to stay collapsed once I've clicked the button .. also, is there an easy way in the settings to turn this bit off and just have the single line we have in the 3.0 version?

Not sure what the point of the "Categories" table being collapsible? You may as well take that off hadn't you?

Also within this bit, can you put a non breaking space (I think that's what's needed) in between a sub-cats name and the [] bit .. else it breaks if you have a large amount of sub-cats running over more than one line ..

Something within the search isn't quite right .. when I try a search from the drop-down menu the first page comes up ok, but when I click on page 2 (or any of the page numbers I've just seen) it seems to forget what it's meant to be searching for and shows a list of all the links in the database starting from page 1 .. (happens from the search page too) ..

Also, in regards to the search page, it seems to ignore if a link has more than one cat associated with the link .. therefore increasing the amount of "Entries" the search comes back with .. is that by design?

On the "My Favourites" page .. if you don't have any favourites it might be worth having a little message saying "You have no favourites at this time, to add a favourite link to this list please click on the +F link next to the link you would like to make a favourite" (or something)

Hmm .. that's all I can think of at the mo .. hope that helps .. I'm sure to be back :)

(sorry if some have been said before, I've not had chance to look through the whole thread yet)

A few more things ..

Could you change the "Rate" link to "Rate and Comment"? .. it's not very clear you can comment on links (perhaps have one link for Rate and one for Comment) ..

When you do have some comments for a link, could it show how many comments there are? ie "Comments (3)"

Once you get into the comments page .. could we have the comments run top down old to new .. instead of how it is at the moment with new comments going to the top of the list. (perhaps make this a user option?)

Maybe split Rate and Comments up a little bit by adding a "can_comment_link" permission .. so people can rate, but not comment .. or visa versa ..

Have a setting/permission "can_moderate_comments" that allows comments to go straight onto the link comments list, while "can_comment_link" drops into the moderation list .. would work the same way the links permissions work at the mo.

Could you split the "can_view_hits" permission into 2 .. with another one added "can_view_names" .. I like people to see the hits, but don't always want some user-groups to see who added the link.

When adding a link .. give admin the ability to change the name the link is being submitted by ..

I'd also like to say .. I love the installer/plug-in .. I love the new "can_access_link" permission and the way it allows guests to see the name but not the link itself (even on the vba module, TOP!) instead of just getting a "Sorry, you are not signed in" page. Nice one :) .. love the style option (but you knew I would ;)) and the new time/date submitted option is super ..

All in all .. very nice indeed :)

Listen man, don't hold back here. Tell us what you REALLY want... :cheeky:

heh .. AndrewD knows I offer my suggestions and ideas in good faith and humour :p

This is great - thanks! I'll include it in the main release when 2.0.7 goes official

Well, hello to you - nice to see my friendly advisory again :)

Yep!

The idea was that the table isn't collapsible - just the 'Hit Parade' - so that the description would always stay visible. Will check.

Thanks.

You're right about some of these - I was working on these points yesterday morning (I'm sitting in a hotel in freezing Ottawa, waiting to fly off to sunny Charleston). The SQL gets a bit hairy, particularly to provide some of the features your colleagues have asked for.

OK

No more sleep for me, that's for sure.

1280 x 1024yeah, I guess that's a good idea too. I just like the shortbit template for the downloads and the regular one for links.

thanks again for your work.