A cautious man, indeed....

I don't think I've destroyed many databases recently, but perhaps the victims are out on the streets of Paris today, waiting to gain their revenge on me.

Seriously, am happy to be of help to you.

Ahhh...no doubt, that's what I did. Thank you very much for the help--that's perfect! I doubt I'll need more than those two modules for quite awhile.

Thanks again, and Happy New Year!

Something like this?

Looking good so far Andrew :)

my 2d .. make the top level categories a larger font and limit the subcats to a user nominated number. Perhaps allow the picking of which subcats to show, although this would increase the amount of coding needed.

Final thing would be to limit the amount of text per subcat to enable a clean look over however many columns chosen.

Hope that helps :)

avi extension isn't working in Jukebox sir

Hey Andrew just asking about that additional extra you gave me to limit downloads by posts. I want to add usergroup id 17 to the exceptions so that they dont require posts to download, im having difficulty finding where to add it in the code.

Take a look in the plugin code and find the line

Change this to, e.g.

I assumne you've added mimetype info (video/avi) for the avi filetype to the vbulletin file attachments table. (I.e. does the player open but then not play anything?)

I've set up LDM to use WMP to handle the avi filetype by default. However, avi files come in different formats. Windows Media Player only handles some of them. (It depends on the video codec used to produce the file.)

DivX is another player which works better. Try switching to this - LDM/admin/settings, find the Media File and Jukebox Settings section, and remove avi from the musicbox_filetypes list and add it to the musicbox_filetypes_divx
list.

The DivX player has to be downloaded from the divx web site. It should auto download when you try to play a file through it, but you can also pre-install it by going to http://www.divx.com/divx/webplayer/

Thanks worked perfectly lets all bow down to your fast responses.

I am an absolute Newbie and struggling. I have a simple vB running very well (latest release) and wish to add a simple "web site" on the same server containing some html pages which link to pdf files. I want to control access to the "web site" using vB, so that only registered users get access. I have uploaded the web site and its files (via ftp) to a new directory (with 777 rights) on the same level as public_html (so it is not visible or accessible to internet browsers).
I have installed LDM and have sucessfully got it to link to the "index" page of my web site. However, when I then attempt to follow a link into the site, it attempts to use the normal url - which cannot be resolved. What am i doing wrong? Do i need to upload the site and its linked files using LDM? How?

Thanks and regards,
Mike

Not sure what you've done wrong, but you don't need the separate html page to manage access to these pdf files. LDM does this directly. This is what you do:

- Create (or choose) one of your VB forums that is only available to your registered users
- Create an LDM category, and on the category creation form, select the protected VB forum.
- Create entries in that forum pointing to each of your pdf files.

These are then accessible only to your registered users.

Happy to give more help if needed.

Andrew is it possible to put a limit on the size of the description?
Companies are taking the mickey a bit and putting over long adverts in there.

<max_textlength> in LDM/admin/settings - the security and user access section - that should do the trick. Currently, this is an 'all or nothing' setting - you can't place different limits on entries in different categories. You might also give people a gentle encouragement in the message you put in <use_instructions> in the same part of the LDM admin/settings page.

Site: http://oops-hq.us If using the Default style, clicking the "What's New" button at the bottom of the center column opens the list. However, if using any other style, you can see about a 1 or 2px line change, but no list. What do I need to change to correct this?

Can't say without looking, and you seem to have changed the password you sent me...

Sorry...forgot I'd reset that. Fixed. :) Thanks, Andrew!

Hi Andrew posted a screenshot there for you, what I meant by the question is that all the page titles in the <title> tag are the same.

So you can see in the screenshot that I'm viewing a file called Stuart Mckeown - Stucast003

Therefore the title tag should be something like:

<title>Stuart McKeown - Stucast003 - Category Name - Board Name</title>

It puts the category names in the title tag fine, just doesn't include the actual file name. Does this help explain it a bit better? :)

Also I'd quite like to see FTP upload with a Progress Bar. I've got people trying to upload 200mb sets but it just times out on them after an hour or so. So it'd be nice to see how long you have left to upload with a nice progress bar etc :)

Keep up the good work!

Stuart

Thanks - this will be in 2.2.7 when available (alpha 1 in a few days, I hope)

Yes, I know what you mean... I gave this som ethought before - probably the easiest and most robust solution is to offer an optional addon to one of the Java uploader scripts

hi andrew. first up thanks for a great release. i dont like installing too many addons to my forums. esp large changes as if the support and updates went from then id be basically screwed lol

from what ive seen of your plugin and the eager to help people out with there problems i didnt think twice before sticking it on. it definetley is one of the finest additions to vbulletin so well done :)

now to my problem lol

i have bought wimpy player for my forum and im hoping to have the ldm system working as a simple mp3 streamer for mp3 files.

the problem i have is that for one the wimpy player flash button is great but it doesnt stop playing when another one is clicked on the same page can u think of a way to solve this?. also if u navigate from the page it stops altho the nature of flash i can understand having to live with that.

the other issue is that if you have over about 15/20 entries per page or more the page loading and scrolling etc slows down to a crawl you can see what i mean here

http://www.oldskoolanthemz.com/forum...s.php?catid=13

id rather not have only 15 per page as my archive is going to be full of hundreds of mp3's, is there a way of solving these problems

of course i understand if because of wimpy and constraints with the flash buttons etc this isnt possible.

if this is the case could ya let me know as i will change it over to non wimpy buttons and then explain and show you some of the problems i have doing things with the built in player, hopefully ya will be able to give me some advise on how i can get it functioning as i would like

many thanks andrew and keep up the good work :D

I see what you mean - I think the page load speed is probably because of all the wimpy buttons - I'll take a look into it and see if there's a way of overcoming this and your other problem.

Just so it's clear--I fixed the password, not the problem. :)

Is it possible on the ratings to make it mandatory that they leave STARS as well? My members complain that the rating sytem devalue's some of the songs if the person letting a review/comment forgets to let stars.
I would like it to be required they they pick a star rating.

Andrew, have you considered using an FLV player for locally hosted FLV videos?

I'm using one, and it's pretty sweet.

Yes, I'd realised - am back at work now, so will take a look this evening...

Wimpy Flash makes my life easiest...

OK, will add a switch.

I've been thinking for some time about Slave's idea for tag clouds. He'd suggested using keywords as the markers of proximity. I'm wondering about using people's collective "hit" and "rating" patterns - rather like in Amazon, you get suggestions of things you may like based on what you buy and others buy. What would you think about an add-on that helped people find other music they might like?

Is there anyway to make the comments system post to the discussion thread if you're using the auto-thread-create plugin?

I think that would be a great idea.

what he said! :)

Second question first.

As far as I can tell, this is a problem with dear old Internet Explorer. The scrolling problem does not occur with either Firefox or Opera. I wondered if this was possibly due to IE using the <object> tags and the others using the <embed> tags for Flash, but this seems not to make any difference - as soon as you load up 20+ flash tags on the same page, IE slows to a crawl.


Yes, this is down to the coding of the wimpy button.

Have you tried using the other wimpy addin I've supplied, which uses the regular wimpy player inside the jukebox? This would solve both your problems at the same time - there would only be one flash object at a time, and any request to play a new trac would automatically stop the earlier one.

This one was weird, but I think I know the reason, although I can't duplicate your problem exactly.

On your site, showing "what's new" produces a list in which the first entry - Mithan's Burning Crusade Starter Guide and Starter FAQ - uses a QUOTE bbcode. This expands into some html which LDM "mistreats". As a result, the page that is thrown at the user's browser contains illegal html, which will probably break some browsers.

The attached update of local_links_search.php should fix the problem. Upload it into your main forums directory. Please let me know if it works.

I'll give that a try when I get home tonight (no FTP from my office :(). However, the problem existed before I added that link--not sure if that info makes any difference. Will update you after I upload that file. I just don't understand why changing from the default style affects the display of "What's New".

If this isn't the solution, then I'm not sure I'm understanding your problem - I can't reproduce the symptoms you described, so you'll need to spell out what you're doing to trigger the problem.

Whoop! .. I thought you'd forgotten ;) .. heh .. glad i could give you something to think about :)

I'm looking forward to the next release :D

Would it be possible to get a couple of links to some working sites with this mod? The screen shots aren't doing it for me. Thanks!

Jake

many thanks for the reply andrew and for looking into this for us. i have tried the wimpy jukebox already but i was hitting problems with that too. il explain these problems to you as it may be something you will be able to help me with as its more to do with ldm rather than wimpy

basically i have my vbadvanced set so that it shows my left vbadvanced column to the left of the ldm. i have done this by adding this to the top of local_links.php as instructed by vbadvanced

<?php
define('VBA_PORTAL', true);
define('VBA_PAGE', 'tunearchive');

and then i added the page in vbadvanced named tunearchive and specified it to show the left navigation column - this is something i need to have on my forum or i can see people getting awfulley confused while navigating the link directory

and so this brings with it its own problem. when you click a link to play it in the jukebox it opens another window. when it opens this new window it also adds the navigation panel and so opens pretty much a full size screen. ive changed it over now so you can see for yourself what its doing.

http://www.oldskoolanthemz.com/forum...s.php?catid=13

if i could get it going so that it opened another small window with the player in it then that would be great.

the other problem with this way of having the links is that i would like the jukebox to open up when the mp3 is clicked on from the list of mp3's in the archive. the way the ldm system currently works in this state is that you click the link then go to another page and click the link again to open in the jukebox. i would rather it have a play button (like the wimpy button system) from the main list of mp3's in that category that would then open the jukebox and play the file.

i hope this makes sense as its hard to explain lol. many thanks once again andrew for your time its greatly appreciated :)

The online manual contains links to three sample sites

http://www.eirma.org/wikis/index.php..._Example_Sites

Here is the problem I'm seeing (your file didn't help, unfortunately):
Using the Default Style, clicking &quot;What's New&quot; properly opens the dropdown list of 5 latest items.
Using any other style (for instance, Black and Gray), clicking &quot;What's New&quot; does not open the dropdown.
I don't know enough about php to know whether the problem is actually in LDM, or is a CSS issue, or what.

Makes sense (mostly :tired: ) - probably the solution is to have some sort of javascripted solution within the same page - wimpy can certainly handle this - let's think about it.

I'm really getting lost. Just to be clear - are we talking about this sequence:

http://oops-hq.us/vbforums/local_links.php

-> select menu item Show -> reveals drop down - select What's New

This works fine for me whatever styles I select. But you've got your styling instructions set up in LDM so that any *show* or *search* command is going to go back to the *Default Style* style