Just updated and everything appears to be working as it should.

Thanks a lot for this!

Cheers :)

nice update ....thank you ... can you add little more stuff in this mod ...example you can add who downloaded? who viewing? how many viewed this page...
Thank You

Would the update affect any changes to templates at all?

There's already a detailed downloads log in the AdminCP ;)
Adding that information to the frontend wouldn't be a good thing for privacy imo.

No, there aren't any template updates in this new version. If there are any template updates, they won't overwrite your template changes automatically. So you would need to revert them manually and redo your template changes, just like vBulletin template updates.

I meant using FTP_put()
http://us3.php.net/ftp

The reason for this is because my uploads are timing out considering my shared host has a limit of <= 2MB and users are trying to upload 25-120MB files.

Are you sure? The question was:
Couldn't it work like this:
1.) He makes a downloads directory on his local server where the forum is, like it should be.
2.) Now via the Add files option, one can upload files, or link to files. If you link to files you need the complete http://siteof.files.com/filenam.zip and the length of the archive.

So If done like this, he should be able to host the files on another server and link to them through downloads II.

Or am I missing something?

thanks for the update. In the future I would love to see an option that is a dropdown menu that allows you to either indicate the size in bytes, kilobytes or megabytes instead of bytes - converting mb's to bytes is a drag. Thanks again.

PHP has got an upload limit, that's probably the problem. It's a common issue :)
If you have full server access, you can edit your php.ini (PHP configuration file) and edit the size there manually. If you are on a shared server, you can put a .htaccess file in your forums directory (where you can find downloads.php) with the following content:
Ofcourse you can change the 25MB to what you want. It overrides the php.ini setting.

That's indeed possible, but I think he means something different with:
So I think that's linking to them without revealing the download url (which can't be done with the actual link field)?

An argument against this is the fact that bytes are more accurate. And it's pretty easy to know the exact size of a file in Windows: just right click it and choose for properties. There you can see the size (don't look at the "size at disk", that's not the real one).

Hi, is it possible to create an extra text field for the upload name say like i got 3 chapters of manga and i'm only allow to upload one at a time and instead of writing the whole name in the name box "one_piece_01", I want to have 2 text fields for
Name: one_piece
Chapter: 01

it will combine those 2 text fields together (seperated by "_" or anything I want) to make it become "one_piece_01"

Also, I've tried the to put in my forums dir .htaccess with:
php_value upload_max_filesize 25M
php_value post_max_size 25M

but it doesn't work, it gave me the error "500" for the whole site, anywhere i go i got that error. If I delete it the problem is gone, any suggestion?

It's strange but users with IE can't downloads any file from DOWNLOADSI
It happened after updating to 5.0.6 version