Mark, I had wondered. Downloads only show a size if the code thinks the file is on the local host and so can use a stat() call to get file details. For remote files, you would have to read the file completely in order to find how big they are, so the size check is skipped.

Installed this hack yesterday, have founds some bugs.

The first bug is that you dont use THIS_SCRIPT to often, in the install-script you have alot of the links containing local_ for "next step", "run step 1", etc in the HTML, also, one of the queries, "ALTER TABLE local_linksltoc ADD INDEX ( linkid ) " will give an error if you dont change it to use THIS_SCRIPT.

The second thing i dont like is that the Forum-Jump dropdown is placed at the top right of the links pages when it should be at the left bottom as on every other page?

Thanks. The install script seems to have one missing table prefix, on linksltoc - the rest are script names, which I will parameterise but should not cause errors unless you deliberately rename the script.

The placement of the forum jump dropdown is, as they say, a feature :devious:. We put it in that position consistently on our main board because we found people were not spotting it down the bottom of the page. Just edit the linksheader template and put it where you want.

working great for me now :)

thanks very much

is there any chance of having an upload feature so my members can upload files and use this just as a downloads section ?

Regards
Mickie

Mickie, glad things are working fine.

As for uploads/downloads, I leave that for someone else to sort out. The security issues seem pretty horrendous to me, and we don't allow our users to upload onto our site. Perhps this should be handled as some sort of tie in with the new VB attachments system?

Just had a problem.

This has been working fine for me for a while now, but suddenly today the system has flagged *every* link (200+ of them) as broken. Any thoughts on why it might do this?

Have you just done a revalidation via the admin page, or is this spontaneous? And are your links on or off your site?

The "validate" procedure tries to open a connection to all your links. If the call fails (timeout, etc), then the link is flagged as unavailable.

Perhaps you could pm me or post one of the apparently bad links? I'll try to see iof anything obvious is going on.

AndrewD do you have any idea on how that add on hack works that Natch wrote do you. He must be on vacation cause I'm having a few problems and he in hiding. If not i understand and i know i probably shouldnt be asking for this here.

Mark

I stop visiting the board for 3 days and I'm in hiding ?

The problem you are having (unless I'm mistaken) is assocaited with the links not pointing to files that exist ...

First off, I want to say GREAT hack, super easy installation worked great!

Is there a way to set the display order of the categories or links? Didn't know if I was missing something. I went back and looked through most of the messages and couldn't find anything on this. If not available now, is this something that might be added in future releases?

Thanks for your work on this.

G