I knew it! Here comes the hell storm now!

Thank you, sir. I think I'm still using version 2.05 so maybe it's time for the 'ol upgrade, what do you think? ;)

Andrew, thanks very much for taking your time and effort in helping me get my site working!

That was above and beyond the call of duty.

David

in the main view, local_links.php why not display all the Categories?

Right now it just says:

Not very interesting info for someone wanting to quickly get into the categories. Can you display the categories instead, like here:
forum.php

instead of :
local_links.php



...just some suggestions. thanks!

Hi Andrew.

What also would be nice to have:
-Possibility to change the owner (the person who adds the link) as Administrator.

Kind regards,
Robert

Something's wrong with your display - it should be showing the categories exactly as you suggest. I'm too tired to understand why, but will take a look tomorrow morning.

Yes, I think this is needed.

Excellent! Thank you once again Andrew for all your effort and help. Everything is looking great now!

after a fresh install I found it difficult to figure out how to add a category. The Add category button/option didn't show up under categories ever until I clicked on the forum bit location for ldm. I doesn't show up in administer or moderate, so just a suggestion to help us newbies.. make it so the add category shows up on other pages as well :p

Thanks - will take note.

is it possible to have 2 instances of this hack on the same forum?

I'm wondering if that way I can have one forum act as a link to the normal links setup which I would use to link to other sites and then another forum act as a link to the short bit one which I could use for a files database.

It will be difficult to achieve this without changing the code. I'll take a look to see how this could best be achieved.

Just have 2 main cats .. and then link each forum link directly to those cats ..

Call one cat "Links" and the other cat "Downloads" .. this would enable people to swap between the 2 main cats easily too :)

(just a suggestion :p)

thanks andrew

and @ slave.. I can have 2 main cats but they have to be the same template as far as I can tell.

They can have different styles - each category can be assigned its own style.

style meaning the board styles right? I can't like make one cat = links_linkbit (fieldset style) and another = links_linkbit_short (abbreviated two-stage style) can I? If I can now do this I'm sorry I overlooked it. I was away for a bit and haven't caught up on everything.

hi andrew i was wondering if would be possible to add support so the posters profile picture could be shown in the linkbit template ??

cheers

Hi

I've installed this in my dev form prior to going live with it. Looks like a fantastic add-on but I am having a problem with thumbnails being displayed (GD2 is installed correctly).

There are some previous posts in this thread that bring up thumbnail problems but none seem to solve my problem. I can use [img] tags and if I enable html <img src> and the pictures show up.

This is what is displayed:

Take a look on the LDM admin page - the little box towards the bottom left of each page - what are the settings for *allow_url_fopen* and cURL? If both are off, you will not be able to get at these thumbnails (even though the img tags will work). If either or both setting is on, then it should work - let me know.

I'll take a look

It says:
allow_url_fopen Yes
cURL Yes
GD2 Yes

Then things should work. Is your dev forum available? Can you PM me an admin account, password and url? I'll take a look.

David, pls can you upload the attached into your forums dir and let me know

I have this problem...

I would like to hide any new file of a category from the "New Links".

I try to set the hide/unhide button in edit form of the file ... and it works? but the problem is that only the administrators can view the file... simple users can't see this file.

I want to give the authority only in a UserGroup to download these files and the other users just to see the files (not to download).

For Example

Main Category
-->1st Category
--> 1stSubCategory1
--> 1stSubCategory2
--> 1stSubCategory3

-->2nd Category
--> 2ndSubCategory1
--> 2ndSubCategory2
--> 2ndSubCategory3

Now I have 2 groups... the Users and the PowerUsers.

I want to give the permissions to Users and to the PowerUsers to view the list of all the files, but only the PoweUsers can download the files under the category "2nd Category", the "1st Category" can be viewed and downloaded from all the users.

Otherwise, if i add new files under of the category "2nd Category" i don?t want to show it in the "New Links".

I know that?s a difficult problem... but please if someone knows how I can to that please tell me...

Most of the 2 problems that?s important for me is the 2nd .. How can I hide from the "New Links" some files that appear under one category?

Thanks
civil78
http://www.greektvsubs.gr/cmps_index.php

Choose (or create) one of your board's forums which has the required permissions - i.e. normal users can't access it but power users can.

For those links that you want to be available only to your power users, 'associate' (via the links creation form or via admin/categories/mass edit) these links with this forum.

If you want all users to see the links even if they can't access them, give them can_see_protected_links_on_portal permission via the LDM admin permissions page.

Just spotted something ..

Not sure if this is a bug, by design, or just weirdness going on :)

In the old 3.0 version, if you already had a link and you updated it, it would show as a new link - both on the links page, as well as via the cpms module. (it showed multiple times in the cpms module, once for each cat it was in)

I've just updated a link in the 3.5 version (added the link to another cat) and nothing showed as new, either on the links page or in the cpms "new" module.

Is this by design AndrewD? .. if it is, is there a way/setting to change this behaviour?

I guess the way "I" think it should work is that it shows as new in the cat you've added to the link and not new in all the other cats it's already in. (I know in the 3.0 version it showed it new in all the cats) ..

What do you think?

Thinking about it, I think I suggested, at one point in the 3.0 thread, about having an "Updated" flag against a link if indeed it was updated. Did this ever get added to the system? and if not could it be?

So, in short, could we have an updated link show "Updated" in cats that it's already in .. and also show "New" in cats that it's just been added to. :) (while only showing once in the cmps new module)

As I recall, someone felt that the 3.0 behaviour was not correct so I changed it. But my memory is not what I seem to recall that it used to be (if you follow me).

There is only one timestamp in the database for each link, so the question is whether this gets refreshed when the entry gets edited. Since there is only one timestamp, it's difficult to separate the change in one category from others.

David, did you see my PM?

hmm .. difficult one then :)

Any chance of a on/off type setting for the 2 ways of doing it? either shows as new or not.

or .. have an updated timestamp column in the db table, so you can show both when a link was first added and the last time it was updated .. therefore allowing you to have an "updated" flag against a link. You could then have a setting to allow you to show these links as new or not on both the links page, as well as the cpms module.

You could also have a couple of settings to choose which colour to show these flags .. ie .. have the "new" text show as red .. and the "updated" text show as yellow (as an example)

Just an idea :)

AndrewD thank's for this usefull information, but somethink else can you tell me if I can hide some files from the "New Links" in the main page, not from the users, just in main page. For example if i add a new file in the "2nd Category", i dont want to show it in the "New Links" Module in the main page. See the pictures to understand what i mean.

"New Links" Before
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/

"New Links" After

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/

Thanks
civil78
http://www.greektvsubs.gr/cmps_index.php

P.S. Can I install this Mod, two times, my problem exactly is that I have a translation team management site for TV series, so I need to show in the "New Links" only the Greek Translated subs and at the 2nd category the English Subs only for the translators and I dont want to show this subs in the "New Links", but also I want to show the free for traslation English subs for the new users without to belong in a team, your platfrom is great but I have to solve this problem.

I can't figure this out either - how exactly did you find you way around this?

When I got to Admininster > Categories, this is what I see

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/

any ideas?

This will be a simple modification to the vbadvanced LDM module. Let me think about it

Administer/Categories gives you an overview of your entire category structure, which since you haven't created anything looks like your picture.

To create categories, select Category/Home Category from the main LDM toolbar. Then, select Category/Add category. In the current version, the Add category menu item only appears when you are *outside* the admin page. I will change this in the next version, as several of you have found it confusing.

had a go at the flash player doesnt seem to work for me :( ..... andrew was wondering if you could add an option for media file to be streamed. maybe an option like

play media files :-

• in jukebox
• as stream

maybe using a m3u file or something

Ooh, I see...I wasn't outside the admin page originally, that's why I couldn't see it. Thanks for clearing that up, Andrew - and you're right, it probably would hurt to change that for the next version,

2.1.0, working well, no problems, 1,754 links.

Andrew, since I only use this for links, am I able to turn the jukebox and download and upload stuff off so it is never seen or used by the public? I just want to make sure before I upgrade to this from 2.0.5, sir. ;)

Uploads - are turned on/off on the LDM admin settings page
Jukebox - turned off per usergroup on the LDM admin permissions page

generally, other things are as before, so I can't see you will have any problems hiding things from your public.

Andrew, I'm not sure if you have thought about this feature, the multiple files in one download.

Say I have a movie that divided into part 1 through 10, instead of making 10 files in 10 seperate links, it is possible to put then in 1 link with multiple lines? This would make the file look a lot more clean and organized for people who have a lot of files to download.

If it's too much then I can just use the sub-category, I hope LDM supports unlimited tree under it.

Also, when I tried to scan the directory and choose "select" as option, it show on the description as: trawled during scan of /images/Album/. This show the path of the location and therefore easy to leech. Is there anyway to add those files without any description at all? I don't want to click edit 138 times just to delete that line. Thanks Andrew.

Will think about this - probably the easist way is to have an additional template.

Yes, it does.

Yes - just edit the links_scantext template - by default it reads - you can change it how you want. Note that the template is applied *when* the directory is scanned, not when the linkbit is displayed, so you need to make this change before doing a lot of imports.

any feed back on the stream idea?