Andrew, PM sent...

Hi AndrewD.
Yes, this works, I know. But I like to use a Thumbnail Service to create the image (of the linked Webside). The idea is, that the thumbnail is created automatically if I enter a URL.

Now I understand. This is (I think) easy to do with a plugin. Send me a pm with details of the thumbnail service you want to use and I'll take a look.

installed this hack as per instructions and all loaded up all ok but when i go to update any settings in the admin section of local links the following is displayed:

The following setting(s) are invalid
upload_dir : forums/ldm_upload
Directory forums/ldm_upload (/var/www/vhosts/mydomain.com/httpdocs/_ldm/forums/ldm_upload) doesn't exist and I can't create it

i have the ldm_upload in the correct place but noticed in the full location the file says

httpdocs/_ldm/forums/ldm_upload

but the address should be

httpdocs/forums/ldm_upload which file do i edit to change this line?

That particular piece of code is using this logic:

-> if you've set the LDM/admin setting 'local_file_root', then it's simply concatenating 'local_file_root_prefix and 'upload_dir', both set on the LDM admin/settings page

-> Alternatively, it's concatenating LDM_DOCUMENT_ROOT, 'local_file_root_prefix' and 'upload_dir', where

LDM_DOCUMENT_ROOT is either:
-> taken from your php.ini' $_SERVER["DOCUMENT_ROOT"]
or
-> set in includes/local_init.php

My guess is that you've set local_file_root_prefix to _ldm on the ldm admin settings page.

thanks for the info makes sense about concatenating will reinstall and try again

Searched this forum but didn't find a solution or hint on an error.
When trying to access ldm I will get this error message:


ldm version: 2.2.6
MySQL: 4.1.10a
PHP: 4.4.3

Changing MySQL or PHP is not possible,
Any suggestions how to solve this problem?

#################

EDIT: OK, Problem solved by repairing tables...

Request.

Andrew, I know you had a reason for this, but i'd love to see it as an option.

I'd like for the synchronization to be able to create threads. I don't add stuff all that often, but if you could specify an account, and then have it create based off that userid, it would be uber-sweet.

No problem, will sort out how to make this an option.

hi,

i am using ldm_new.module, everything is perfect. the only thing is that, i have sub categories and when i specify the main category, it wont list the entries in the subcategories.
i need this for 3 levels subcategories (i.e. main cat-->sub cat 1-->sub cat 2-->entry)

could you please help me do this?

thanks in advance

ADD*: which template should i use to show thumbnails instead of text links. i am currently using links_vbathumbs, but Category Strips are not shown correctly. image attached

Who's better than you?

Andrew

Sir, I am having a small problem. I have had this running for a long while. I upgraded the LDM system to the latest one when it came out. now i get weird messages. I think I remember how to correct this. but I cant remember. here is the message after somone posts a download.

"This page is not designed to be access directly."

if you can, or know how to fix this, can you please give me a clue how to fix this.

There is 1 more thing. and didnt notice this till someone pointed this out to me today. it seems every time we upgrade this LDM for some reason all of the pictures of the download has dissapeared on all of them.

the only way to correct it, is to go and press edit, and then just scroll down to the bottm and press submit and it will fix it. without any edits. its a weird weird one, I tried to look for a way to make sure the paths are ok, and other tings, but it seems that its a weird problem

Just in case for your FYI

VB Version is the latest release
Your version is the lates release

also my server stats

Kernel version 2.4.21-32.0.1.EL
Machine Type i686
Apache version 1.3.33 (Unix)
PERL version 5.8.0
PHP version 4.3.11
MySQL version 4.0.27-standard

Thanks in advance.

Ray

Update..

After Re - Installing the Product xml it took out the message "This page is not designed to be access directly."

That took care of it, but the problem is that it keeps doing it after so many weeks. I carry a large load of downloads in Your program like over 2500 and growing. I am wondering if that may or may not have anyting to do with it??

I remember when I had a other junk portal "xoops" it could not handle the large downloads, hence the reason I had to change. but they could not come up with a solution for larger type database for downloads.

Again I am wondering if that may or may not be a problem

Thanks again

HI AndrewD,

hehe good question Andrew, i am a code sucker .. hehe i don't know what linkbit i am using, can u show me which one is that? ..

XD

I recall your report in October. I've never seen this message - there is no such message in LDM and I can't find it in the VBulletin code anywhere either.

I did a search on Google for the text "This page is not designed to be access directly." There are two hits, your report fror LDM and this report in the VB Events Forum archive (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/archive/i.../t-123416.html)

edited: - I took a look at the talker bot code. The message "This page is not designed to be access directly" appears at the start of one of its files. The code reads as follows:

The code is called from at least one plugin called "Talkerbot - Include The Bot", which hooks into the newpost_complete hook in VB. The newpost_complete hook is used in the code to create new posts, which is called when LDM 'autocreates' threads.

So what I think is happening is the following:
- you've installed talker bot
- you've also installed the autocreate_threads extra for LDM
talker_bot is not expecting this and gives you the error message you see.

Unfortunately, it's not a problem that I can fix - you'll have to take this up with the author of talker_bot


LDM creates a thumbnail whenever it thinks it needs one. If you've set up a 'thumbs_dir' on the admin page, it saves the thumbnail as a file in 'thumbs_dir' and keeps a record in the database. The problem you describe occurs when the record in the database points to a file which no longer exists, for example if the file structure for the website changes or (perhaps :)) I have made a change in the logic. I don't know which is the case for your situation.

When you edit and save an entry, LDM always recreates the thumb, in case there are any changes.

One way to fix this for all entries is to go to LDM/admin/statistics/reset thumbs

I tried to find out for myself, but your site is rather interesting to say the least, and protected :)

Go to LDM/admin/settings and look for the entry called "template_linkbit" (Style used for displaying groups of entries)

Or if you've changed the configuration in any of your categories, do ldm/edit category/control settings/template linkbit

Andrew,

Your a fantastic help. Yes it was the stupid talker bot (thats now Un Installed) and hopefully no one will want it back LOL

As for the second part the thumbs, it only happend when I upgraded this script. so you may have addidently added someting to it, or changed a piece of coding. but I went to the re set thumbs part and looked at it, it had like
(1211 [1199 cached]) so I reset it and hopefully that solved that part.

I do have the thumbs set to /images/thumbs so I know thats ok. thats why it puzzeled me in why it went and did that to the thumbs for all the downloads itself.

So basically should I always keep an eye on the cache for the thumbs? or not worry about it seeing i did a reset of it?

Thanks In Advance

because then people would think it was a rar file, not a tar zip file. I wanted it to be different than the rest.

thanks so much I am giving it a shot now. well now tar and rar look the same but tar is bigger. Appreciate the help guys thanks.

Sorry took me so long to post.

Is there any chance of a paid installation service?

Plenty of chance of a free service, if you send me a PM with site details, an ftp account and a vb admin userid...

Just as long as it's not too strange a site

Gotta tell ya....Andrew definitely goes out of his way. :up: Speaking from personal experience.

If the reset has worked, everything should be ok. If it ever goes wrong again, just repeat the cache reset.

any suggestions?

Thanks very much Andrew, i'll give you a shout next week :) Perhaps i can atleast give you a donation towards continued development :alien:

I have uploaded new versions of the vba modules (see start of thread). The hot and new modules now have an extra parameter - subcategories. If set, the code searches all subcategories (children, grandchildren, etc) or the categories specified.

Bear in mind that you can always specify a comma-separated list of categories if you want to restrict the module to those, e.g. "1,3,5,6".

If you have installed the new module versions of the vba code, the important templates are adv_portal_custom_ldm_new_one and adv_portal_custom_ldm_new.

To get the effect of a row of thumbs instead of the normal text links, you need to edit both of these. For adv_portal_custom_ldm_new_one, use the following:

For adv_portal_custom_ldm_new, use this:

thanks you Andrew

is it possible to extract the entries to 2 rows?
for example i have set this module to show 8 Entries. but i want to show 4 entries per row....

BTW. the other modification is exactly what i needed. since i have TOO MANY subcategories (about 550 in each main category), this was the better way to handle that. thanks again

i have also one suggestion :
for people who have more than 500 entries in LDM, and also too many sub categories, it would be useful to have an EDIT button near each entry (for admins or ppl with permission to edit)

Hi Andrew

I would like to use the ArtViper Thumbnail Service.
To create a thumbnail, the url has to be parsed as parameter like this:
http://www.artviper.net/screenshots/screener.php?&url={URL}

Thanks for your help!

Regards, robihot

This is probably a duh! but I did search and could not find the answer. Is there a demo site for LDM? I have the product installed and have tried to get started with it but I am having some kind of synaptic gap black out or something. I can't figure out the logic for linking the files I load into LDM to a post or thread or directory.

The only tiny problem with artviper is that it returns a .bmp format file, which the standard php libraries don't handle.

Will think about this.

Which way round? An LDM entry which points to a post/thread, or a post which contains a pointer to an entry in LDM, or a post that announces that there's a new entry in LDM

For the first. I set up a custom bbcode [link=id], as follows:

where you would replace 577 by the linkid of the entry in question (get it by hovering the mouse over the entry)

For the second, you would create an LDM entry which points to http://yoursite/forum/showthread.php?t=threadid, etc

For the third, there's an autocreate_thread extra in the release extras directory.

I want the second method. And I have added the document to the LDM database. I already have a post which refers a pre-existing link at http://<download server>.com/Documents/Basis/testdocument.pdf. How do I change that link to http://<my site>.com/forums/local_links.php?action=jump&id=1&catid=3? When I do this, simply opens the file with no options to download and not open, etc. And doing a right-click on the link no longer offers Save as Target...

Great Modification, just wonder if it's possible so that each download link has it's own unique page title? At the moment each link has the same page title at the category it's in.

Any help is appreciated!

tried to install,but didnt work when i loadup the flash files... where do i upload the getid3 and clientscript directories at? i uploaded them at my "/forum/" and upload the product too... did i do anything wrong?


J

Hi AndrewD,

hahaha, THANK YOU .. and yet, now it know what's the linkbit is which u were talking about .. hehe i got it sorted out by choosing "Featured" as my LINKBIT :D

btw, if you see anything that is not protected, please let me know .. as i said earlier, i'm a code suxker. and yet, a worst in graphics or designing ... hehe.. had never learn how to draw since 3 years old :D well, i did when i was 1 and 2, that's about it.. :D

thanks
XD

copy the contents of the clientscript directory into your existing forums/clientscript

create a new forum subdirectory getid3 and copy the contents of getid3 into this

install the wimpyplayer-flash via vb/admincp/products and plugins/download and upload

set up mimetype info for swf and flv in vb/admin/attachments/manage attachments

you should be there.

If not, I'll take a look.

For an LDM entry in category id N with linkid M, these are the urls:

yoursite/yourforum/local_link.php?catid=N&linkid=M - takes you into LDM and displays the description of that single entry

yoursite/yourforum/local_link.php?action=play&catid=N&linkid=M - for a jukebox-enabled filetype, takes you straight into the jukebox and starts playing the track

yoursite/yourforum/local_link.php?action=jump&catid=N&id=M - NB id, not linkid - downloads the file, with right click offering the usual open/save as/etc, according to the browser

Sorry, I don't quite understand your question.

Do you mean the title bar at the top of the browser? - maybe you could post a screen shot to show me.

i did all that, however not working.. please check it out.. ill PM you website info with admin access. Thanks

The getid3 directory contains the trial versions of the required wimpy files, specifically wasp.swf, which plays only the first few seconds. Once you've got things working and are satisfied, you simply replace this file with the full version.

Nexus asked for a means to autogenerate web site thumbnails for use within the LDM linkbits. Here are some plugins that give you three ways to do it:

- using ArtViper (http://www.artviper.net/)
- using snap.com (http://www.snap.com/about/spa1B.php)
- using webthumbs (http://bluga.net/webthumb/)

Each has its strengths and weaknesses. ArtViper is free and needs no registration; Snap needs registration but is free; and webthumbs need registration, is free for 250 images a month and is the most configurable. The webthumbs plugin requires php 5.

Installation - choose your plugin, go to the appropriate subdirectory and follow the instructions. (Possibly upload code, then upload the chosen xml plugin). You should only install one of these at a time. The ArtViper and WebThumb plugins autocreate an image within the linkbit; the Snap plugin creates a pop-up window over the link title.

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