Sounds as if the product has not been properly installed or one of the code files is missing/corrupt. I suggest that you re-upload all the files and then re-install the product.

* Deleted - superseded by post-3 test release.

I've taken a look at this - it wil be fairly straightforward, but I would like to take the time to test everything properly before launching this.

Feature added in 2.2.9 post 2. There's a new LDM permission to allow/prevent usergroups from providing associated images at all, and LDM also checks the vb per-usergroup attachments permission to see what filetypes the user is allowed to upload.

Your request for per-usergroup sorting is not in this release, but is on the wish list.

Brilliant! Thank you, Andrew.

Andrew, After updating to version post2, I do see where the limited usergroups don't have the ability to post a thumbnail 'can_add_image'. However, they are still able to add an image to the Link Description. This image then shows on the added entry. May I have missed a setting to disallow this?

Thanks,
James

You need to go to vb/admincp/attachments/permissions and deny the usergroup rights to jpg, gif, bmp and png. Unless I've missed something, which is quite possible :)

Hmm... ok, i'll test this week. :D

Oh, on thosekeywords i was thinking about using xml to import new entries, and just edit the filename... so, i was thinking, there might bean issue to add keywords directly with the xml file ^^,

Thanks! ^^

OH! have a nice vacation!

Thanks a lot! Enjoy your holiday :).

very nice release
thx a bunch for the great work..

I just have little problems (that have nothing to do with the new release)
very simple setup as link database with six 1 level categories on mainpage...

1. problem, using multiple styles..
(stupid me probably) i just want on the main page to have the folder icons for categories to be blue.. for the blue style and green for the green style..
as the category.png is somehow cached in the code.. i do not seem to be able to place a $stylevar to the imagefolder..

2. problem, same setup.. 6 categories (1.st level)
i have categories A, B, C, D, E and F

I have 2 categories per line
works fine if I have
A --- B
C --- D
E --- F
But if i change the display order.. using 1, 3, 5, 2, 6, 4
the layout (2 per line) is lost.. i can get it back by using 2x the same digit for displayorder.. i.e. 2,2, 3,3, 1,1
But i cant change from left to right..
hope that was clear.. if not i wanted to have the cats on the main page to be:
D --- C
F --- A
B --- E

but the closest i could get was
C --- D
A --- F
B --- E

(But that is not a major issue.. as i am doing a fresh setup anyway and will create the cats in the order i want)

Felix

To get the flash-sites plugin to work, do I need to enable allow_remote_downloads in LDM Settings? Also, do I need to enable the swf filetype in VB Attachment Manager?

I understand. This is an omission on my part - the LDM icons are not style-dependent but can be category dependent. In fact, no one has asked for this before (in four years!!). Let me think about it.

Also understood. Display order over-rides everything else as far as the sorting goes, and forces a line break. Again, I will give this some thougbt, although I think it may be an inherent problem in the code design - i.e. if I fix this for you, then it may break other people's preferred layouts.

Well dont bother.. i just wanted to point it out.. as for me only the category icons need change.. i just added a stylevar in the code.. so it works for me.. as it is only 1 line i can port it for future releases. thx anyway

Well as i said i can live with it.. as i have to do a brand new setup.. so dont waste your energies :D

because i would really need something for a product that is nearly finished. i.e. 3 extra hooks. The product is nearly finished.
What it does it allows you to have translated category titles and descriptions.
(I read in the FAQs that you dont plan to support that.. but i really wanted it)

It uses for the moment 3 plugins and 3 fileedits (that what i need the hooks for) and one template edit.
It uses the same translation system as the custom profile fields in vbulletin profile.
what it does:

creates custom phrases when adding or modifying category
deletes custom phrases when deleting category.
(this is done with plugins as there are nice hooks implemented)
When editing a category there is a link called "translations" besides the title and the description that opens the phrase editor with the phrase to translate.



what i'm still working on is the replacement of title and descriptions (still need one dropdown and wol)

If there is interest i will post the beta product here.. probably on sunday (cant work on it till then) (you can then check it out and decide if you think it would be worth it to add the hooks)

Felix

Thanks - I will gladly see how to integrate your ideas - Sunday will be difficult as it will be day 1 of being 'not normally conncted to internet' for several weeks.

Am I missing it? Is there a way to show all of the links on the main page? We don't have that many links and I want to display them all at once, yet still have them split into categories.

Thanks for any and all advice.

You should not need either of these - the add-in uses patterns to recognise each of the video sites.

I've re-tried the test file provided with the release, and found a couple of problems with the 2.2.9 releases.

- If you have the LDM setting local_file_root set, the addon does not work properly. There's a bug, fixed in the attached includes/local_links-players.php

- DailyMotion doesn't work any longer. I think the site has changed the url format.

You could turn on one of the LDM statistics options - e.g. newest entries, and set the number to display to more than the total entries.

Thanks for that, Andrew.

That looks ok, but I really want to see the complete Link entries listed on the main page. I think my real problem is I have not yet explored the Category Display Settings properly. I had better get with it. ;)

Icons dependent of styles would be great... if possible :p

ok.. as promised.. here are the 2 hacks..
ATTENTION.. this is very beta... and straight forward.. only apply if you know what you are doing!!!


1. the styledependent category icons.. (its a file edit and the category icons ONLY!!)
open includes/local_links_include.php
find:
below add:
save the file.

then create a "ldm" directory in the misc image directory of your style... (in every style)
into that directory copy "category_new.png" and "category.png" corresponding to the style..
that was all i needed..

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2. multi language category titles and descriptions..

Ok this is more complicated..
1 product (see attachment)
what the product does:
every time you create a category or you modify a category title or description, it creates a 2 custom phrase.
it inserts your title (the one you created or modified the "normal" way as custom phrase in masterlanguage.
the name of the title-phrase will be
$vbphrase[ll_cat_catid_title]
in the vbulletin phrasemanager you can then add translations to that phrase..
IF you modify the title (as u usually do) the phrase gets overwritten in masterlanguage
IF you delete the category the phrase gets deleted.

It also adds a "Translations" link below "Category name" and "Category description" and the phrase: Translations

--------- ok thats the product... the hooks where there in the ideal places.


Now the fileedits... (they are in locations where i did not find any hooks)

open includes/local_links_include.php
find:
below add:
then find:
below add:
save local_links_include.php

then open: includes/local_links_profile.php
find:

below add:
save: local_links_profile.php

and finally open the main local_links.php in the vbulletin directory

find:
below add:
save: local_links.php

Don't forget to import the product...

ATTENTION: This will only work if you have more than 1 language installed in vbulletin. At least 2 languages must exist!!!! if you have only 1 language installed.. it will do nothing!!!
AND .. you will only see the translations after you actually translated the phrases ;)

IF you have existing categories.. clicking the "translations" link will give: phrase does not exist.
In that case.. just hit the submit button on the Add/Edit Category page. Then only the phrase is created and then you will get the phrase when clicking the translations link. This has to be done once for every existing category. When creating a new category you also have to save it. Then only the translations link gets you to the phrase.


Todo:
verify if the phrase replacements are needed in other places..
for the moment it works in main page, category pages ( the dropdown is also translated) and in the search page.. (I did not test the profile page but added the translation)

thats it..

I hope this is usefull for someone.. and if there were hooks.. that would save the file edits..

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PS @ andrew
Just got a great fright... when editing a template i somehow seen that there were no sessionurls in the links.. (in the office.. they have disabled cookies on our browsers :( ) which meens that i get logged out each link i click.. i meen if for example i go to page 2.. i get logged out :(
I didnt have the time to check all the templates and all the files.

Hi Andrew, the the new release seemed to break my id3 tag for new entries. I checked your recent posts and turned on all the new features but its still now showing any of the id3 tags when it scans new entries. Any ideas?

Thanks - I can see what you are aiming to achieve and will - at least - provide the hooks to allow this to be done without code edits. I'll see if I can go further.

Yes, he says, red-faced. You will not find any session urls. I know they need to be there for the situation you describe - for some reason early in the design I left this out - no-one has mentioned it before ! Fortunately, it's not difficult - just tedious - for me to put them back. Will do.

In 2.2.9, ID3 tags are handled as additional attributes rather than as text inserted into the description. You have to turn on display of Additional Attributes as well as installing the id3tag-enhancements. Sorry, I forgot to mention that in the 'readme' file.

The change makes it possible to do more interesting things with id3 tags - howevere, I do consider that this part o fthe code is still 'under development' so I will welcome suggestions for improvements.

I noticed something of that sort and I like the direction it is heading but it doesn't seem to pick up values from my files. When I edit a scanned entry all the id3 tags are blank and not checked. I have to enter custom text and check them. I checked the category and they are all enabled.

Is it possible to use the old id3 plug-in I was using on this new version?

the hooks would be great... :)

forget the one in local_links_profile.php, because that would implement that the whole ldm phrasegroup would have to be imported in the profile.. wich would cause a big extra load.. so i think just disabling this in profile would be less trouble when using translations.

as for going further.. :up: you probably will also find better locations for adding the code.. as i just added it where it seems to work.. but i dont know if it works in all configurations!

:up: great.. take your time...

as it is a not very intelectual task :p i offer to help.. because i know what a pain it is.. and how much time it takes.. (just pm me in case)
just a reminder: because i have lost about 5 hours when doing this to another hack.. because i mixed up sessionurl and sessionurl_q :eek: ... (i had added a questionmark before sessionurl_q and didnt find why the url was then broken)
I know.. YOU know.. but sometimes a reminder does no harm.

Anyway looking forward to the next release...

Felix

I'll try to check this evening when I leave work and let you know.

Thanks derfelix! :D

I'll try the icons mod.

still wait : timer to download to prevent hotlinking
i still prefer timer than any other way
or also verification by image

Using vb 3.6.4 and LDM 2.2.9 post2 and having this problem that's been frustrating me for hours because it should be simple.

local_file_root is set to Yes
local_file_root is set to /attachments/
sync_enabled is set to Yes
sync_populate_categories is set to Yes
sync_populate_entries is set to Yes

I uploaded the files into /attachments/songs/mp3/
set chmod 777 to all directories

When adding a category I set this:
Synchronise with... songs/mp3/

And gives me this error:
Cannot synchronise category with songs/mp3/ - directory not found.

What on earth am I doing wrong??

Isn't 2.2.9 for vB 3.7? :p

It says it's for both 3.6 and 3.7 and I had installed 2.2.8 then upgraded to see if it fixed the problem, and it didn't.

Hmm... i'm really new to sync, but I think your setup should work. Maybe you need to configure something for subcategories.

Please wait for Andrew, I'm sure he has a better idea.

please someone could say could add as a proxy to the front of urls downloads? links.php?url=http://anonym.to/? $urldownload <-

That file should I change?

Thanks

I'm having a little trouble after installing 2.2.9-post2. The new image permissions don't seem to work correctly. I have it set so that two of the three Usergroups that can post links, can also add thumbnails. However, the thumbs do not show. There is a space where the thumb should be, but the image is not there.

Thanks for your help,

James

Can someone please tell me if it is possible to add a simple border around the edge of images in the photo gallery? Even if it is a simple black-line border? The example gallery shown on the following documentation page shows that the images in the gallery don't have any borders, but is it possible to customise this layout to include a border?

http://www.eirma.org/wikis/index.php/Image:Photolib.jpg

What about changing the alignment / positioning of the images on the page? Does this mod have such features to change the layout of the photo library page?

Try applying the "tborder" class around the image code, use a:
That should do the trick :D

I have tried and tried and tried to layout links in one category as follows:

Category
-Sub Categories
--List of Links, with Title and a few link details (Hits, rating, etc.) but not all the content
---Clicking on Link Title shows link content, which in my case is a fair amount of text, images and a download file

I have read the user guide, tried every possible configuration but cannot get it to lay out the way I described above. What I get is the Category, with a list of Sub-categories. Clicking on a Sub-Category shows all the links and every piece of link content (text, images, etc.) for each link. Since my entries in this section will have a fair amount of text, images, and attributes, I do not want to show all that with the link listings. Rather, I would like my users to click on the link title to see the content for that link and to then be able to download the attachment.

My question is, is that possible to accomplish? Thanks for any direction you can offer.

Another question. In my directory structure, one has to make a few clicks before getting to the new categories so I would like more parent categories flagged with new entries.

Is it possible to control how many parent categories are flagged when a new entry is added? I don't recall seeing a setting for this.

My registered users are restricted to 2 downloads a day. I have a user who belongs to no other user group:

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/

The Registered group is set to 2:

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/

And yet he can download many more than that:

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/

Any clue?

Hi Mr Andrew;

Bug report:
With can_edit_link and no can_select_category and no can_admin_links permission, when local_links.php generates editlink form ldm_construct_category_list() returns null, so no $optbit, so no pcatid[] input array in form, so ll_error_category standard error will be returened when form submitted.

How to fix:
local_links.php (line 1328) in "editlink" area
"can_add_link" permission should be "can_edit_link"