i added them but they don't show.....that why i was asking. i figured they would show if i did that.

I've sent you a PM with an admin account and my email address, in case you need FTP.

Thanks so much for offering to look into this; the website in question I am writing this vbulletin / vbadvanced / LDM site for is currently up to 4 million hits a month on a dodgy phpNuke install, so I'm quite desperate to get it working right :D

PS - Assuming between us we can get it fixed, I'd be happy for you to link to my site from yours as an example site for using LDM :)

I followed my own instructions, uploaded an exe file onto my own test site, and this is what I see...

Not sure what's happening on your site - I can see that you have (e.g.) the exe.gif in the correct directory.

Thanks for your help AndrewD!

Turns out one of my rewrite rules was misbehaving, and matching a URL it shouldn't do. I've amended rewrite rules and its working fine now :)

okay i got it working....forgot i didn't have an .exe file on there anymore....

but tar isn't working....nothing for it....

Why not just copy the zip.gif file as tar.gif?

How about this .. ?

:)

Hello AndrewD
I would like to use a free Thumbail-service (websitethumbnails.com) to display the "Thumbnail" of a Link.
I know how to add a IMG as Thumbnail, but how can I use a URL to display the Link Thumbnail?

Thanks for help.
Robihot

http://site/forum/local_resize.php?linkid=N&size=M

where N is the linkid of the link (hover the mouse over the link to find it out) and M is the size you want it to display at (e.g. 200)

come to this thread everyday and peek at this mod .. waiting for a next release badly.. still haven't got good news from AndrewD :) .. i still can't view files in multiple colums .. the old one i could, but not this this one :( .. wait till the next release hopefully it work for me ... AndrewD, i think this mod is one of the best one for me .. on my 240K member forums.. it can be controlled greatfully ..

XD

Can you remind me of the problem - I didn't realise there were some outstanding bugs.

I've packaged the available code for VBadvanced into a set of importable modules, which are easier to use and more controllable that the 'hard coded' php files in the current release. These will form part of the next standard release, but for the present, I make them available in the first post of this thread. Simply use the download/upload feature on the vbadvanced admin page.

NB: if you have already installed the previous version manually, delete them from vbadvanced and delete their php files before installing the modules.

Okay, I'm reading through the posts and I just want to be double sure that LDM will support software files. I'm thinking of having a "one stop shop" page where members can download software such as freeware (AVG, Zone Alarm, etc), or maybe skins/templates... basically, a variety of applications.

Maybe the easier question is... what type of files will LDM not take??

Thanks in advance for your help! :cool:

Lyte

EDIT: And, is it possible to limit access by posts? Meaning, I can set it so just those who have posed "X" number of times can access the download page? Thanks! :)

Can this updated version play flash files FLV,FLA, SWF???

J

LDM will "manage" *any* sort of file with a filetype (i.e. filenames of the form xx.typ). How it manages the file depends on whether or not mimetype information for that filetype has been added to the main vbulletin/admincp attachments table. If so, all of LDM's capabilites are available; if not, it will still manage the file but some features (like uploading, keeping track of download bandwidth, etc) are not available.

You will need to be careful with some filetypes (e.g. exe's) as the user may not accept these, because of the virus risk, etc. Particularly, if you enable other users to upload the files on to you system the first place.

There is a feature built into LDM to limit the number of files and total bandwidth a user can access per day. This feature can be adjusted using a plugin (supplied as an "extra") which over-rides that feature depending on the number of posts the use has made. The "extra" is quite easy to adjust.

Yes, these really should be adjustable parameters on the admin page.

The attached plugin will do the job for you. Edit it, find and change these lines:

then install the plugin (vb/admincp/plugins and products/download upload plugins)

You keep asking...

I wrote a new plugin for flv and swf at the weekend. I used the wimpy wasp player - it works fine. But you have to buy wimpy. If you want, I will post the code. There are quite a lot of flash players avaialble on the web - I don't want to code for lots of these.

Thanks for the jukebox resize plug in. It worked like charm.
About the player for FLV.....it'd be nice if we download some flv files from youtube and be able to play it in LDM.
However, let Adrew rest a bit...he will support this hack when he's free.

thanks, yes, please post the code, i'll get that wimpy player so that i can use your code. Thanks Andrew!

J

How do you download videos from youtube?


I put this hack in my ldm
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=132702

It streams the youtube videos just fine.
http://www.versionist.com/local_links.php?catid=22

Would be nice to have the same thing for google..but my members seem to enjoy the new videos.

Wimpy player.
I tried all weekend to get wimpy to work on my server. It appears there is an issue with wimpy and php 5.

Sorry, guess my question was not exact enough.
I want to have a thumbnail with every Link I add in DLM. As I understand, I can only add an image manually to my links.

But I like to use a service to "create an thumbnail" on the fly, based on the URL which is stored in the DLM.

Or have I overseen something and DLM is able to do this somehow?

Thanks for your help.
Kind regards, Robihot

Just go to Google. Type keywords " How to download movies from youtube"
U can do it easily.

If the file points to an image, then LDM auto-generates the thumbnail without entering anything into the image url field. It will also do so for mp3s with embedded cover art, povided you have uploaded the getid3 code in the jukebox-enhancements 'extra'.

If you want to do something fancier (e.g. autolink a jpg to an avi or create a thumbnail by referring to an external source), then this needs a plugin. Maybe I missed something in your question?

Well, I've just uploaded the full wimpy files to my test site which is running php 5 and it all ran straight away without difficulty. Not sure what to say.

Here you go. should be self-explanatory. the zip file contains the same directory structure as the normal ldm release, with only those files you need. Reinstall the product xml, upload the various bits of extras/wimpy and then install the wimply-player-flash plugin. The zip contains the demo version of the wimpy wasp player, so you can see how it works.

what version are you using? I know there is issues prior to 5.2
I guess i need to patch my site.

My home (coding) site is running windows/apache/php 5.1.6. My live site is running linux/apache/php 5.2.0 Both run wimpy just fine. With a black screen, I wonder if you've uploaded the swf?

I tried it 10 different times.
Do you want to try it for me?
I have win03/php 5.1.6 with IIS 6

Hi gang...I'm slowly getting this hack together....and I would like to see some of your all's layouts and categories.

If you don't mind...please post up a link to your site so I can get some ideas of where to go with my setup.

Also, when I go into adding categories...I don't see all of my Parent Forums. Attached is a screen shot of what I'm refering to. Any help on this is appreciated.

Thank you ;)

Well you can check out http://www.mangahunter.com

Andrew is there a way to change the start of every link. At the moment im hosting alot of files and want to change the location to a different server. Which is going to cause a pain if I cant simply add a http://www.address.com in front of what ive already got. Is there a way to do this? And can it be done to certain categories only?

Hi AndrewD,
it's a small thing. it's just that, i used to use the old version, and I had no problem of setting the item listing in multi colums, like i used to set it as 3 colums listing of my movies and now, it can only list one column, doesn't matter how i set it. I set it as 2 cols or 3 cols still not working. since my files don't have the descriptions that's why i want to list them in 3 columns, so the images would feel in the screen nicely with this kinda listing, otherwise, it looks empty with one columt and without description.

THanks AndrewD,
xd

To do this per category, go into ldm/admin/categories; find the category of interest; select mass edit.

Depending on the number of entries in the category, you might need to change the number in the top right hand box on the screen (which is the number of entries displayed) and select 'view'.

Go down towards the bottom of the screen, click 'select all', then click 'edit url'

The two boxes s/this/that/ are what does the work. Put the '^' symbol in the first box (without quotes) and put http://www.address.com in the second. Then select submit

Be careful, as there's no 'undo' facility - probably a good idea to take a backup first (ldm/admin/import and export/xml)

If you want to do this on your whole database, you can either do it a category at a time - alternatively, if you've not made much use of the 'forums' protection mechanism, you can short cut the process on the ldm/admin/categories screen by going right to the bottom of the page, to the 'forums permissions' section, and choosing the mass edit links there.

It's probably either a css styling problem or something I've missed with forum settings. Please can you go to 'add category', use your browser to do 'view source', save the html into a text file, and post the file here for me to look at. Alternatively, send me a pm with your forum details plus an account and password with vb admin permissions.

Which linkbit are you using?

Not really! - I don't understand IIS and I'm not sure I want to learn. But am willing to have a go at the weekend. I'll need ftp access - can't recall if you told me how.

Might be the vbSeo causing this.

Thanks Andrew. Here it is.

Thanks for your help on this one.

Thanks - it's not a css problem, but I'm not sure what it is. For some reason, all the forums except those that are visible are being picked up as having no name.

However, you have exactly the same problem with the 'forum jump' menus throughout your site. Take a look for example at the forum jum down the bottom right of http://www.f-bodyhideout.com/forums/...splay.php?f=13 - you'll see that the same forums are visible or invisible in the menu.

I can't tell you any more without having admin access to your site.

I just tested wimpy on IIS/php 5.1.6 - works fine.