For some reason, after upgrading to 3.5.3 yesterday, newly submitted links are not showing up on the forum home, where I have a pseudo forum for my links db. Any idea why?

No idea, another weekend task ;)

Hi Everyone,

I tried checkin into the local_links_external.php file and RSS feeds.. still no success. Is anyone here using the file for RSS?

please advise.

Bear with me - weekend tasks

Andrew

Andrew, one quick question, the download limit is not based on IP right? Which means that if one person go over the bandwith/files allowed, he can register a new user name? Thanks.

Correct, it's based on the userid

I upgraded to the beta awhile ago and in the admincp the box for the links and downloads section is blank. How can I get that back?

I've noticed that sometimes myself and have never really understood why.

Chceck that your /includes/xml directory contains the file cpnav_xlinks.xml

yeah, its there

I ran through all this on a clean installation this morning, found one problem with media filetypes, but otherwise it worked as I expected:

1) To make sure that all links are visible even when they cannot be played, you have to give the usergroup can_see_protected_links_on_portal permission.

2) To turn off access to (e.g.) unregistered users, you have to take away can_access_link permission

3) To change what happens when a user with can_see_protected_links_on_portal but without can_access_link permission tries to access something, you set protected_link - 0: no hyperlink shown; 1: normal link, generates no permission error; 2: link jumps to registration dialogue

4) To set the protection for some links, you need to 'associated' them with a forum that is not visible to the usergroup in question. You can do this either on the standard edit link page or on the admin/categories/mass edit page.

The bit that doesn't work properly in the current code is step (3) for media files, where the user will always get a 'no permission' message rather than the alternatives outlined above.

If you still have problems, send me a PM with detail sof your board and an admin u/name + password and I'll take a look.

is it something to do with installing vs upgrading?
I remember when I installed it I was asked if I wanted the admincp link but when I upgraded there was no where to do that I don't think.

No, Vbulletin adds items to the admin menu by looking for xml files in the includes/xml directory. If you've uploaded everything correctly, it should be working correctly.

ok, it was there, but I just reuploaded and its showing up again. thanks.

It's strange - I've think that's happened to me too.

Hi Andrew - you went beyond the call of duty to try and figure out a problem I had with your plugin on my site and whilst we didn't solve it I don't think I publicly thanked you for your efforts.

Saying all that it is now working! (I assume the problem was on the server side and something has been changed on that) However after installing it if I click on a "what's new", "what's hot" or "view" new entries I get "Category does not exist. Return"

Any suggestions? (Sorry if it's something already asked and solved but the thread is getting a bit long so I have missed it.)

Yes, I'd like to thank Andrew publicly also. Few go to the lengths to help as he has.

Rich

Darat, I had the same problem and Andrew's answer is #927 in this thread. I dunno if you're using the Beta release or stable - I am using the Beta but the suggested fix did fix my module links but I couldn't get the other fixes to work. I didn't put too much effort into it and just disabled the Hit Parade option until the next code release.

Agree 100%, I can't say thank enough to Andrew, he has gone beyond what others normally suppose to. In fact, his support is better than many paid scripts out there.

Going to make another LDM Andrew? Says Pro version, I'd be the first one to support you, thanks for everything with the permission, I'm kind of firgue out now.

Thanks - don't know how I missed that!

what is the max size of the file you can upload

It's determined by several parameters, some of which are set in your php.ini file.

upload_max_filesize, and post_max_size in your php.ini

The maximum filesize setting per filetype in your VBulletin/attachments table

The upload_maxspace in LDM's params.

Good news guys and gals...

There's a new beta going to appear here tomorrow or so, with the following features...

+ Categories
can now have inheritable settings defining the appearance of categories/links (i.e. you can change the appearance setting per category), including having different new/not new display icons
+ Email notifications to moderator when link submitted/to user when accepted
+ "Featured Sites" (=selected users' favourites)
+ Final tweaks to User Profile integration
+ Linkbits
New linkbit available (intended for photolibraries)
Option to display multiple columns across some linkbits
General tidying up of linkbit templates (icons, layout)
+ Thumbnail images generated whenever possible during link creation/edit, rather than on the fly.
'thumbs_dir' indicates where these thumbnails are stored
Images generated using 'resample' algorithm rather than resize algorithm to obtain better image quality
+ Admin settings page restructured into groups and new admin settings and permissions added:
'default_style' - style to use for whole LDM board
'moderate_email_submit' and 'moderate_email_accept' - enables confirmation emails
'cat_icon' and 'cat_icon_new' - alternative category icons
'cat_cols_display' and 'link_cols_display' - vary columns of categories/links
'can_link_files' - usergroups has permission to add urls (sister to can_upload_files)
'featured_user_faves' and 'featured_sites' - controls over featured sites

Bugs fixed
> 'Report bad link' works correctly
> Phrased the admin xml file
> LDM checks for some valid mimetype information for Jukebox files
> Improved image quality of thumbnails
> 'Scan' code re-written to behave more consistently

Hope you're happy.

First, this is a great mod and I really appreciate the effort in providing this to the community.

When I upload a ~15MB zipped file the upload seems OK, but the file name is changed "assume normal behavior" and when it is downloaded, the file data is corrupt.

Try to unzip the file generates the following error.
Some data in your Zip file is damaged. The CRC is ... should be ...

The uploaded and downloaded file sizes are identical.

Normal behaviour with 2.1.0 - fixed in 2.1.1

Not normal behaviour! will investigate

Thanks

awesome job.
would the new photo library be able to be used like the other gallery hacks? That would really benefit me since your hack uses cURL functions :D

If this is the case (crossing fingers) then hopefully people can release vbadvanced and forumhome add ons for previews. actually maybe that's a good addon for the links/downloads right now, a horizontal box on the forumhome with what's hot or new or random. (sorry, typing what I'm thinking lol)

another feature request would be to have permissions per category so that I can allow some users to moderate one category and other users to moderate a different one. (like maybe one will be doing photos, one files, one links, one media, etc)

The photolibrary layout works the same way as the rest of LDM, except that its linkbit template defaults to showing several items across the page rather than just one. I suspect there'll be some adjusting necessary when you guys get your hands on it, but we'll see what we can do. I changed the algorithm used to create thumbnails, so that these are better quality - that costs quite a lot of processing time, so the thumbnails are generated when the entry is added rather than when it is viewed.

I'm part way there with this - in the new beta, some of the admin settings can be applied per category but not yet the permissions - but the code has been changed to enable this extension on a later occasion.

one of my users uploaded an mp3 file, but it doesnt seem to be clickable to listen to it. how do i fix it?

a) Take a look at VBulletin AdminCP/Attachments/Extensions and Sizes. Have you set up an entry for mp3? You need to create this with - at least - information in the mimetype field (Content-type: audio/mpeg)

b) Take a look at LDM/Admin Permissions/can_play_musicbox

I have set up an entry it works with other songs in other categorys ( linked from music )

This song was uploaded. there is no link for it.

Take a look, http://www.lyricalsoundz.com -> Music -> Deejays

Shouldn't have happened ;) - easiest for me is (if you're comfortable), take a dump of the local_linkslink table in your database and email it to me at ad_rodin at noos.fr. I'll check what'd happened and get back to you.

By the way, nice site!

Yeah okay il email it to you later on today.
Thanks :)

I can't remember if I said it before so I'll say it again, thank you so much for all the work and support you put into this.

when upgrdaed to 2.1.0 on vb 3.5.3
the viewing of the cat/links is very slow and it over load the server
i have about 677 categories and 6722 available entries

is there away to downgrade to 2.0.5 ?! and if posible can someone send me the files ><

I did a quick check - on my test board 2.1.0 is slower than 2.0.5 but not badly so. I'm concerned to get to the bottom of this. Perhaps it is the large number of categories or perhaps the display of thumbnail images?

Would you be willing to send me a dump of your LDM database, so that I can sort this out - LDM/Admin/Import and Export/Export a csv, then email it to me at ad_rodin at noos.fr - or pm me with an admin username and pwd to your board so that I can take this myself.

As far as downgrading is concerned, I think this will work ok - I just tried and there doesn't seem to be a problem - but I'm not making an absolute guarantee. I attach the 2.0.5 zip file. Just use the VB Product Manager, uninstall LDM then upload the 2.0.5 code and reinstall. Uninstalling/reinstalling does not harm your database.

Keep me informed, please.

Looking at this in more detail, I suspect that most of the problem has been created by introducing the drop-down 'category jump' menu. There is quite a performance hit in building this menu for several hundred categories. I'll add an option in the next release to disable it, similar to the VBulletin option to disable the forum jump menu.

Thanks :) i did the downgrade and it works fine :)

i'll be looking for your next release to see if this going to solve the problem ^_^

I am uploading the first beta of 2.1.2 into the first post in this thread for testing and comment. As always, please take a backup of your database before upgrading in case of serious bugs.

I have also created an online user manual for LDM, and have removed this from the distribution zipo file. You can access the manual at http://www.eirma.org/devel/LDM

Since the official release 2.1.0, these are the main changes and extensions:

Version 2.1.2

+ Categories can have inheritable settings defining category/link appearance
+ Email notifications available: to moderator when link submitted/to user when accepted
+ "Featured Sites" (=a selection from selected users' favourites)
+ Extensions to linkbits - new photolibrary linkbit available, option to display multiple columns across some linkbits, general tidying up and new icons
+ Thumbnail images generated whenever possible during link creation/edit, rather than on the fly. Images generated using resample algorithm to obtain better image quality
+ Admin settings page restructured into groups and new admin settings/permissions added:

Bugs fixed
- 'Report bad link' works correctly
- Phrased the admin xml file
- LDM checks for some valid mimetype information for Jukebox files
- Improved image quality of thumbnails
- 'Scan' code re-written to behave more consistently
- Improved (much faster) algorithm for building category jump menu

Version 2.1.1

+ Admin pages improved
+ 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
+ Images can be uploaded when uploads enabled
+ 'Update to current time' checkbox added to Edit Link form
+ Uploads of thumbnail images available
+ UserProfile integration (off by default), driven by parameters in User Profile
+ Users with *can_moderate_link* can change (Ajax-enabled) name of user who submitted entry

I have promised to add 'keywords' to entries, linked to user profile searches, and I will try to provide per-category permissions, before the final beta of 2.1.2, but otherwise the functionality for this release is complete.

I'm going to use this as a book review for my site (see www.advancedphysics.org)

can you give me some pointers on how I can taylor it to that? I created sub categories for types of books, but 2.1.0 doesn't inherit the view type (short) to the categories.

I also can find a way to move the picture to the far left as you have shown in your website.

Lastly, how can I force to show short version AND review stars ?

thanks for any help :)

Thanks.

The new beta 2.1.2 does inherit view types down the category tree, so you can give different categories different appearances and expect that their children will keep these.

To change the appearance in the way you want, you need to modify one of the linkbit templates. These are variants on nested tables stuffed with conditional tests on what to display. It's just a matter of deciding what you want to see where. I suggest you compare the links_linkbit and link_linkbit_short templates to see what has been left out of the short template and to see how the ratings are being handled.

Am happy to help/guide - keep in touch by PM.

Did you send an email?