With v2.1.0, you have a toggle bit at the top right of the links listing, which takes you between a 'lite' and full version of the links display. You can force the use fo the lite version on the admin page by selecting the links_linkbit_short template (towards the bottom of the settings page).

Does anybody has a .htaccess file for me, that handles mod rewrites somehow?

I would love to have the links shown as

http://links.webgurus.de/funlinks instead of http://www.webgurus.de/forum/local_links.php?catid=1


Also http://links.webgurus.de instead of http://www.webgurus.de/forum/local_links.php would be fine.

I know, this would be better in an apache forum, but maybe someone did exactly this ;)

Take a look at section 8.3 in the instructions.txt (2.1.0)

I did, i just did not thought i can use this as .htaccess ;)

Thank you for your support! The more i play with your add-on - the more i love it!

like your commodore 64 avatar! jumpman jr my favorite game

Thanks ;) What about my C64 style (http://www.webgurus.de/forum/?styleid=47)

back to topic, sorry ;)

2.1.1.b1 installed... the quota system is an absolute god-send!!!

AndrewD - you're a star!!! :)

Thanks for the responses so far to 2.1.1 beta 1.

- There is a minor bug in the admin template used for download quotas (an extra double quote). This breaks the display with IE, although Mozilla handles it ok. I attach a fixed template.

Here are plans/remarks for beta 2, which affect just the profile-based search introduced in beta 1:

- I will re-do the Profile-driven 'My Search' feature, along the lines that TundraSoul discussed, but 2.1.1 will not go all the way.

- Instead of using a new profile field to define the search, the admin will be able to link the search to an existing (or custom) profile field.

- If the field is a text box, then its contents will be treated as search keywords/strings, with commas or semicolons used to separate items

- If the field is a pulldown menu or set of checkboxes, then the descriptions of the selected items will be used to construct the searches.

- My Search will move from the 'Show' menu to the 'Search' menu, as additional menu items after 'Advanced Search'. It will expand into the distinct searches are framed by the user's profile.

- I will not at this stage provide the extra facility to link keywords to entries. You will have to do this via the entry's title/description. Keywording will stay on the 'wish list' for the time being.

OK?

That all looks great.

So when someone selects their profile saved search choice, it wiill continue to search the LDM titles and descriptions to find matches? Please add the keyword feature as soon as you can. It's a much more powerful metod of presenting content relevant links than the current MySQL search system.

1,913 links and growing.

I understand, but there's a long list of other wishes as well, I only have a certain amount of time free, and I'd like to live a life :tired:

No doubt. Great job Andrew. I'm going to install this over the weekend.

Hey guys,
I PM'd Andrew a couple of ideas, including that there should be a better image gallery layout, which he agreed with and thought there should be generally a more flexible layout with options of which layout you want for a category.

The second thing I suggested was to have a "Recent Comments" section as an option. He agreed with me, but was curious how best to implement it, and on that note asked me to post my idea here for your guys' input:
Originally Posted by elsupremo
"#2. For regular links/entries, if possible please have a "Recent Comments" section under the description of the entry, containing between 3-5 comments, with a "Add Comment" link underneath it.
The reason for this is that people are LAZY. I tested the other day with several friends of mine, and they downloaded some videos from my website, without even knowing that they could add a comment, even though I <strong>'ed and increased the font size of the "Add Comment/Rate Link" text.
If people see the first few comments, it would really bring the comment system to a functional and effective point. Right now, people don't see the comments and are too lazy to click the link to go in and check them out."

Andrew's response was the following:
"This is a good idea - I think it needs to be a per-site-configuration option, so that the admin can decide how many comments are summarised in the bit.

What would help me a lot is a couple of rough sketches of possible layouts. I'm not the greatest garphics artist! You don't need to do these in html - just somthing that gives me a sense of what you would find aesthetically 'clean'. Perhaps you could post this in the main thread for others to respond to."

If anyone is able to help with this last part, much thanks to you! I will give it a try myself when I have some time. :)

Regards,
David

I agree, that would be a nice addition. I'd like to see the last 3 or so comments or summaries, and a link to see more.

How are you setting the default? If you set an overall value on the admin page, and you also set a default sort for a category (edit category), then the category's sort takes priority.

I have uploaded a second beta 2.1.1 into the first post in thread for testing and comment.

The only difference between this and the first beta is that the integration with user profiles has been redone, so that it is possible to connect LDM with any user profile field, see discussion between TundraSoul and me.

If you installed 2.1.1 beta 1, you must uninstall before installing the second beta

New features in 2.1.1 over 2.1.0:

Admin pages give better information when invalid parameter settings entered
Default permissions for new links taken from parent category rather than global default_forumid
Daily user file download and bandwidth limits available
File uploads retain their name when downloaded
New *cat_cols_display* setting controls # columns in catlist
New *can_save_musicbox* permission defines whether users see the open/save as hyperlink for Jukebox media files
QuickTime plugin included in Jukebox - *Warning* - if upgrading LDM, manually remove "mov" from *musicbox_filetypes_realplayer* filetypes
'Update to current time' checkbox added to Edit Link form
Uploads of thumbnail images available
UserProfile integration (off by default, set *profile_integration* to 1)
- 'Show MySearch' driven by parameters in User Profile
- Enable showing user's recent LDM hits in profile
Users with *can_moderate_link* can change (Ajax-enabled) name of user who submitted entry

Bugs fixed
- Phrase order in browser title changed to match VB's format
- Some unnecessary links removed from the Jukebox display
- Hard-coded phrases moved from plugins into phrases file

I have also translated the instructions file into html - see the /manual subdirectory in the zip file.

Please note:

- User Profile integration is not switched on by default - you need to set *profile_integration* in the admin settings. Then edit your profile - you should see two new items - 'My LDM Search' and 'My Recent LDM Hits'. Try putting some keywords into 'My LDM Search', then go back to LDM and use Show/My Search. Go to Quick Links/My Profile and you should see the last five items you visited/downloaded.

- File download and bandwidth settings are controlled by a new submenu item on the admin menu

- I have split up local_links.php into two files (local_links and local_links_search). Possibly in the process there are menu commands which don't work properly - please exercise these to look for bugs.

- There are some new phrases which need translation into French, German and Spanish - help please

As usual, please take a back up before installing. Upgrades are handled automatically by installing the product file on top of an existing installation. You can downgrade back to 2.1.0 if necessary by uninstalling and then reinstalling 2.1.0 - this will not lose your database.

ahha!! that did it. didn't realize it you could do per category too. :)

I'll see if I can throw something together as well. :D

There are lots of little changes to UI of this that would help A LOT in making it look A LOT better and promote more usage of its features. :)

Andrew, this is great stuff! Your hack is a much apreciated expansion of my site.
I am having the following problem and I have been running round in circles to solve it:
I have full functionality ad admin. Other members only have the functionality of posting links, not uploading. They get the error: Error - unable to move uploaded file on server.
As far as I found the settings are right. Do you have any idea, what the problem is?

I registered at your site and went into the 'Add Link' page and I can see the "Upload File" box. This should not be visible to me if you have configured your site so that other users cannot upload. Take a look at the "permissions" page - have you given registered users 'can_upload_files' privilege?

This looks like a nice add on for my site. I will install it and if it works for me and my visitors I will translate it into dutch and will post the translation here.

2.1.1 Beta 2 installed with no problems, good job!

Here's a couple of cosmetic suggestions.

1. In My Search, change it so it displays the profile word from the profile field, instead of the profile field description. You currently have the profile word set in the ALT tag.
2. I don't enable the "hit parade" because it seems disorganized IMO. Partly because everything appears centered, and you cannot collapse the table. You may want to re-think the way the table items are displayed.
3. I would like to add category icons for any category. Right now, the default icon, category.gif is used for every category but I would like the option to make them unique.

That will be much appreciated, dank u meenheer

OK, will experiment - by the way the profile word does appear in the menu if the field is a multiple choice. I omitted it for text fields in case the entry was very long - perhaps a trimmed version of the contents

I agree, I've never been happy with this, although it will collapse as far as I know. I think it was Slave who suggested moving the table down the bottom of the display.

Yes, I think we need to make a number of the global settings available on a per category basis - currently, just the sort order and style are per category. As well as the category icon, the link bit should be a per category choice, and perhaps some others.

I second this !! (all the suggestions but this especially. :D)


Also, I have one big suggestion/request for this hack. But I think it would INVALUABLE to many of your users.

Multiple Languages for Titles

This is one of the single most important features on my board and I suspect for many boards running multiple languages (even if they don't know it...if they HAD it they would love your forever.... ;))

Basically, this is a feature would allow a Category, Category Title and Title of a file to have a language entry for every language installed on the board. This can be accomplished with simple repeating the field for those subjects for each language.


The reason: multi-language sites are forced to have a category title with both languages in the title.. ... which means one language (non-romanized character languages) is always broken and the titles are super long. This looks awful and is very confusing.

Also, doing this give your hack TRUE international appeal as one can really have multi languages for the content and not just the menu items etc. This in the end can be MORE important.

I have this hack install for my FORUMHOME forum titles. it makes ALL the difference in the world.
www.NaeStar.com/forums
and go to the forum index home and switch between ENGLISH and KOREAN. (your browser might still produce broken characters, but you'll see what I mean.)

but if look at the misery I have to do on the LDM main page to deal with both languages where I can't write language different titles, it'll be obvious what I mean.

I can pm you my forum url, or if you think its appropriate post it here so you can see what I mean.

I know this seems like a small and annoying extra to deal with as many users only deal with English...but I hope you can see the merit of it for continuing to improve your already awesome product. :D

Here's another suggestion that may of been posted before. I would like to see a "what's new" table added to forum home. The content of what's new can be based on date of all new links or date of what's new for my search - or both.

You may want to consider just providing the code so the admin can place the table anywhere the link. I actually added a What's New link to the default vB navbar, so people would be able to find new links even quicker.

1,919 links and growing.

Thanks, good idea. The guts of this are written - take a look in the release/extras/xml-external subdirectory. This delivers an xml coded list of 'What's New', but it would be easy to modify for another purpose - you would make minor changes to the lines at the end and you would provide a new template in place of links_xml.

Let me know if this is along the lines you're suggesting.

You do set me the most interesting problems! I will need to see how easy it is to present different language coded forms on the same page. Just the task after my Christmas turkey and mince pies:)

Added to the list!

Andrew, the most popular entries in the front page is too long, how can I limit it to like 10 or 20 entries?

I'll setup a test site and install the beta 2.1.1 to help you find any bugs. It's so great to hear it's coming soon.

As far as I recall, this is determined by the value of links_seen_on_portal on your LDM admin settings page

I have a suggestion for a future release: usergroup security by category.

Also, is this version (or a planned release) able to hand multiple instances of LDM on one vB system?

That's similar to what I had in mind, but that file appears to work as an external XML feed of what's new or what's hot. I guess I would like something simpler. For instance a single, collapsible, table, with a working $ldm_whats_hot or $ldm_whats_new variable that we may use in the table. I could then place the table code anywhere in forum home.

Hi,

I'm trying to get the SEO Rewrite to work. I'm using .htaccess because I don't know how to use http.conf because I don't have the file anywhere on my server. I tried inserting the code from the instructions file but it came up with:

"The requested URL /home/****/public_html/local_links.php was not found on this server."

That is where it located though.

Can anyone help me?

Thanks!

Do you mean *in addition* to the possibility to associate the category with a forum and pick up the usergroup security that way?

This is not yet possible. The question has been asked before, and the suggestion was to use the nested subcategory system - create your different instances one level down in the tree and set up pointers in your board to these (local_links.php?catid=N) rather than to the base category.

Is there a reason why that approach is not sufficient?

Nice site! Is Winnepeg always so sunny?

The documentation on Apache's mod_rewrite describes the feature as "voodoo" ;) I'm not an expert - you might be better posting the question in a general Apache forum. However - I assume your server is running under linux? If Windows, you probably need a drivename somewhere.

You may find it helpful to include a RewriteLog statement in the .htaccess to give insight into what is going on - see http://httpd.apache.org/docs/1.3/mod/mod_rewrite.html

Hi AndrewD,

Do you know how I can fix the report bug. The current format is:

user( mailto:user@hotmail.com ) has reported this link: http://www.domain.comlocal_links.php...d=403.\r\nThis is the reason that the user gave:\r\n\r\ntestest.

Yeah, but how can i set the default style for the script? It always uses my default style.

Sorry to be a bug, but is something similar to EC Downloads 3.3?

Can i see some short of demo, from ppl that have installed this?

Registered members should be able to upload, but they can't. Have you tried to upload a file?

Sorry, I misunderstood your original question. Just to be clear, can you confirm:

- As admin, you *can* successfully upload files
- As a *registered user*, I should be able to upload, but I get the error message Error - unable to move uploaded file on server, and the same thing happens to your other registered users?