Just wanted to give a shout to Andrew! Logged into my forum and fixed the problem with my board and my images are now showing up. Andrew you are the bomb!

Andrew, about the vbadvanced plugin blocks:
If I want to add multiple blocks, can I just rename the plugin to whatever I like and use it several times under different names?
What are ldm_cat.php and ldm_tot.php?
If I want to display newest files in a certain category, what do I add/change in ldm_new.php?

And something different: I have been tooling around for a while to get the thunbs displayed, but can't seem to succeed. The dir where the thumbs should be stored is empty. I can not find another place where they are. Seems like the function is off. create_thumbs_oninsert is on. Strangely enough the database lists 3 thumbs, which I can not find. I hit reset to see if that helps. Now I've got 0. Where can I mass generate thumbs?

Same here.

Great support from AndrewD and much appreciated.

Thanks Again

I'm no expert on vbadvanced, but it seems you can copy/rename the modules in order to use them multiple times. (Actually, you can use a module multiple times without renaming it, but then it becomes difficult to get it to say different things on different parts of the page ;).) The thing to check is the number of database hits you create in the vba page - every module carries a load, although the LDM modules should do most of the initialisation work only one time regardless of how many LDM modules you load up.

ldm_cats.php creates a block which looks like the categories section of the LDM home page, i.e. a list of the top level categories with direct links to them.

See attached image for an example of how these look.

Find the line which reads $filter= and change it as follows:

A number of people have been having difficulties with this for some time. Every time I find a way to patch the last problem, a new one appears.

Easiest is for me to take a look - I've forgotten my username on your site, and I'll need full admin perms back again.

Last question: thumbs are generated 'on the fly' if they don't exist, i.e. after you click the 'reset thumbs' link. There used to be a mass recreate function, but I realised it was unnecessary.

Thanks for that info. I have created a latest music block. How do I limit the number of files displayed?
Your username is same as here and has full admin perms again.

Thanks, AndrewD. Your support has been nothing but phenomenal.

In the "LDM Usage and Quotas" section of the wiki manual (http://www.eirma.org/wikis/index.php...age_and_Quotas), there is a passage that says:

"Limits can be placed on the number of files a user can access and/or the bytes that she can download in a 24 hour period, or both. If both types of limit apply, the first limit to be hit triggers the block. These limits apply individually to registered users, and collectively for unregistered users. Different limits can apply to each usergroup."

What does applying "collectively for unregistered users" mean? Does it mean that if I assign 200MB daily bandwidth allowance to unregistered users, I can have either 20 users using 10MB per day or 40 users using 5MB per day? If a couple of unregistered users have used up 150MB on a given day, does it mean that there wouldn't be much bandwidth left for other unregistered users to use?

Besides, I don't understand how file limits can be meaningfully set collectively for the group of unregistered users, since there is no telling how many unregistered users will visit a site on any given day.

Thanks for your pointers.

The manual is out of date on this point, thanks for highlighting that. For unregistered users, the test is now made using their IP address. If you turn on bandwidth limits and set a limit for unregistered users, each IP address will be allowed the speofied number of files/bytes per day. It's not perfect, but it seems better than giving the whole world a limit that one person could use up.

All the LDM vba modules use the same parameter, links_seen_on_portal, to limit the number of files displayed. You set it on the LDM admin settings page.

See PM concerning thumbs.

Andrew,
We started to get the following database error last night. I removed IP and username info.

Any thoughts?

This is triggered by a username that has an apostrophe in it. Sorry about that. I'll post a fix this evening.

I believe I'm finally there with LDM 2.2.6

Grateful for a couple of quick tests before we move this to become the new official release.

Please remember to backup your database before upgrading.

Changes since 2.2.6 rc

+ New vbAdvanced module to list most recent new categories
+ New Wimpy plugins added - integrate with wimpy player and wimpy button
+ Spanish translation updated (thanks ObMob)
+ Down arrow icon available for downloadable files
+ Bugs fixes
- timeout_hit_allow no longer checks on hits on same entry, thus fixing problem with download managers that attempt to open multiple channels to the file
- admin/view downloads/delete entries works again
- force_accept modified to record acceptance in the database instead of in a cookie in order to handle clients with forceful firewalls and virus software
- moderation code modified to work correctly with chenges in VB36
- 'view ratings' drop down menu hidden when rating/commenting on entry
- 'view ratings' drop down menu visible in tabular linkbit
- subcategories are not shown when user requests display of single entry
- various improvements in curl handling; curl access works to https: urls and to urls with redirections in place
- entries shown per page is rounded up when link_cols_display>1, to fill the page grid as far as possible
- improved category synchronisation code
- Windows IIS/CGI integration no longer dies if DOCUMENT_ROOT is protected
- VB 3.6.3 image security check incorporated

Attachment removed - 2.2.6. is now the official release.

Thanks a lot AndrewD. Installing now and will let you know of anything I come across...

Ta AndrewD :) .. Installing now, I'll let you know if I find anything.

hmm .. something funny is going on :)

Everything seems to have become centerised ..

AndrewD, take a look at www.yaxleyvillage.com/local_links.php to see what I mean ..

The category discriptions, as well as the sub forums .. the discriptions of links within the Tabular linkbit too .. not to mention whats going on with the short linkbit is no longer in rows but all bunched up (look in my local contacts cat) ..

Is it a new setting? or has something gone wrong?

You're right about the centering, but it seems only with IE. Mozilla Firefox is behaving correctly. I'll take a look - probably I've missed out a 'center' tag somewhere.

The short linkbit is defaulting to the default 'max cols' for the linkbit, as you haven't set a link_cols_display value. That's what happens when I try to fix someone else's bug report... Again, I'll take a look and try to post a fix this evening.

Cool AndrewD, thanks :)

heh, just looked using my iBook and the centering looks fine using Safari too .. bloody IE ;)

You're right in that I've not got anything in the link_cols_display setting. After having a look I did change this to 1 as a test but it didn't go back to how it used to be, but instead just showed the link in a block like it does without the setting, but only one per row instead of the default 6 ..

Sorry for the extra work ..

Edited, superseded...

I'll try this tonight and let you know.

Thanks AndrewD .. I've tried those files out and while it does look as if the display of categories and subcats are back to normal, the linkbits are still wrong.

The Tabular linkbit is still centering things (in IE only it seems) instead of aligning things to the left.

The Short linkbit is defaulting to 1 entry per row (with no setting in admin) but the details of the entry has a breakline in the middle and isn't filling in the whole row like it did before ..

http://www.yaxleyvillage.com/local_links.php?catid=62

See above to see what I mean re the short linkbit.

Hope that helps ..

Actually, AndrewD, the idea of giving unregistered users collectively an X amount of bandwidth usage everyday makes perfect sense to me. I was only asking a clarificatory kind of question. I didn't mean to say that I didn't like this feature. In the newer versions, i.e., for vBulletin 3.6, have you really changed this bandwidth quota to apply to unregistered users individually? If you have, then we could have server bandwidth maxed out quickly should a larger number of unregistered users visit our site:

Suppose we have purchased 50 GB monthly bandwidth, and we only expect about 50 unregistered users using about 20 MB per day. That would come down to 1 GB per day and 30GB per month. That's still within the limit of the quota. But if all of a sudden, we have 200 of these visitors, then the bandwidth usage will shoot up to 4GB per day, and we will use up our monthly bandwidth in two weeks.

I think you should keep collective bandwidth usage for unregistered users intact because of this kind of unpredictability. For registered users, bandwidth usage is more predictable. I would greatly appreciate it if you could reinstate this feature. But for file opening, I agree with you that it should be applied individually to each IP, registered or unregistered. Thank you. Please reconsider.

I changed this after a strong request from others. It will be easy to enable both approaches, perhaps by a new switch or a plugin. Hang in there.

Yes, same issue with the table linkbit (and also the featured bit), now fixed. I'd deliberately changed the short linkbit to make it look nicer for my own purposes, so I've reinstated the old 'short' bit and added a new 'shortcent' bit. Try these files (local_links.php; includes/local_links_include.php; and product.xml)

edited - Superseded.

That seems to have done the trick AndrewD .. thanks :)

BTW .. is it right that the report bad link image only shows when commenting on a link?

You should only see the report bad link image if it's someone else's entry. If it's visible for your own entries in the comment page, that's a bug.

Most of my entries are entered using my admin account, it was when I was using my test account that I saw the report link image showing up, but only within the comments page.

Thinking about it, the comments page uses the Modern linkbit while I'm using the Tabular linkbit for most of my entries. So I'm guessing the report bad link image isn't working/showing on the Tabular linkbit .. :)

A little suggestion ..

Remember I asked for hits to contacts (non linked items) to be logged? This is working just fine at the moment, but when you look at the stats for hits within the admin area you get told there's been a hit, but not what the hit was for. It seems this is because it shows you the URL that has been clicked and as a contact doesn't have a URL nothing shows up. So perhaps change the stats page to show the name of the link as well as making the name click-able with the URL if there is one?

I realise that I could have a full time job writing software :rolleyes: - wonder if I should quit the day job - will take a look at this, thanks.

Thank you. I am looking forward to that.

Andrew, you've done a terrific job with LDM. Not that you can survive on donations alone, but that I really want to donate a modest amount as a token of appreciation for the hard work you've put in. If you could set up a donation link, I'm sure other fans here would be willing to pitch in something.:)

I've donated before, it allows you into the "inner-sanctum" where thought powers LDM, not programming... it's neat. If I have time tonight to install it I will. And then I will ask 12 annoying questions about stupid little things that I should have done on my own, and then you will answer 6 of them, and I will figure the other 6 out all the while cursing you for not doing it all for me...

:)

I've uploaded what I hope is really the official 2.2.6 release of LDM in the first post.

This fixes the most recent problems (centering of text, missing 'report link' button in tabular linkbit, empty descriptions in downloads table for 'contact' links), and there's a new plugin available in the 'extras/limit-useraccess'directory to patch the control of bandwidth/download limits on unregistered users.

Please backup your database before upgrading, and let us know how it goes. As always, thanks to everyone who has helped test, suggest, translate, etc.

Big fan of this mod, well I have just decided to build new forum from scratch and install 3.6.3 and this Links & Downloads Manager.

Have a problem that GD2 say's NO, and thumbnail images don't display.

Anyone got some idea's to fix this problem...

Official 2.2.6 installed .. everything looking good at the moment :)

Is the version 2.2.6 that I can download here now an official or still a beta release?

Official :)

Andrew, I have not noticed a lot of difference in the directory sync. It still misses files here and there and catches them the next time along. Never the less, it works great.

I noticed that a new entry only triggers the category that contains the entry with the (new) flag. Is it possible to trigger all the home categories of that entry? Also, how would I go about customizing the "new categories" cmps module that you created? You used standard categorybits and changing that would change the normal category listings in cmps as well since they're based off the same variable.

I will install the latest 2.2.6 and work from there. Thank You...

If you haven't checked already, make sure your thumbs directory is chmoded to 777. We have issues every now and then with it not working, and this is why.

Either you need to get your web site php implementation to include the gd2 module (speak to your service provider) or you need to get me to implement the alternative graphics package which VB can use instead of GD2.

Question - does your vb installation display thumbnails correctly within other parts of your board - if so you've got another graphics option available. But it's worth speaking first to your hosting company.

The sync function is coded to use only a limited amount of cpu time each pass, so usually cannot complete the job in one round. It keeps on trying each time someone visits the forum, or the admin clicks the 'manual synchronise'. Both the automatic and manual syncs have time limits, set on the LDM admin page.

I'll look at your other questions this weekend.

I was just curious of the improvements you mentioned. I am aware of a settings and I did notice that it tries to do further scanning as people visit certain categories. Kinda like smoothing the bubbles from a piece of plastic. A few at a time Pretty cool :cool:

Thanks again...