Am afraid not. This would require (I think) to be able to process the contents of the file, which is well outside the capabilities of this hack.

I think I understand you - if so, the situation is basically as Slave has explained.

Am I right in the following:

You want to 'autocreate' forums/subforums which have the same structure as your categories/subcategories? So if you create this structure in LDM:

category 1
-- subcategory 2
------ subsubcategory 3

you want to create forums as follows:

forum 1 linked to category 1
-- subforum 2 linked to subcategory 2
------ subsubforum 3 linked to subsubcategory 3

Currently, when LDM creates a linked subforum, it turns off the "Show this Forum and Child Forums on the Forum Jump Menu" option for this subforum. So you don't the chance to select it as the parent the next time round (or to use it to give the access permissions for other categories/entries). Actually, this is by chance, not design - I think it's one of the changes in vbulletin that I missed in going from vb3.5 to 3.6.

If you go into vb/admin/forums and switch on "Show this Forum and Child Forums on the Forum Jump Menu" for the new linked forum, you should be ok.

Even though vBulletin will allow this nested structure to exist, because the subforums are 'links', it may be difficult for the user to drill down on the forumdisplay pages to get past the first linked subforum. I played around with the vb forumlistings display options - Depth of Sub-Forums - one can get an indefinite depth of linked subforums to show up in the forumdisplay, but only as a straight list.

I am changing this behaviour in v2.2.8 so that the 'autocreated' forums appear by default on the forumselect menus.

Thanks Andrew, Ophelia. I'll update from 2.2.6 to 2.2.7 post2.

Update: Yikes! Incredible. Works like a charm. No problems updating. No problems finding way around Admin sections. Much complexity presented in an easy to follow design, even for a relatively new user such as I. Grrrrrrrrr-r-r-reat.

problem all my cats are adding this local_links/links/1 in the url and the 1 is the cat id how do i stop this happening i keep getting page not found.

I am your 500th install.

Love the mod!

Can someone tell me what the difference is between this hack and DownloadsII?

This hack seems to be way more active and more supported, which is a plus.

Are the two even comparable? Am I just overlooking something obvious here?

Thanks in advance!

I think you've enabled the seo_friendly option on the LDM admin pages but you haven't configured your web werver to recognise this.

Hello AndrewD,
I cannot use the rewrite rules because of my server.
Instead of that i would like to rename /local_links.php to /subtitles.php. If you allow me to do so, what do i have to modify ?
Thank you very much.

Far be it for me to comment...

The two hacks developed along similar lines for quite a while, but there's not been much discussion here about Downloads II for over a year.

I try to give LDM good support, and it's still under development as new needs arise. That's about all I can say.

Indeed, this is straightforward. The instructions are in the wiki, see http://www.eirma.org/wikis/index.php/Hacking_LDM. Let me know if you have problems.