Hi, has anybody thought about a "Top Links" or "Latest Links" module for vBAdvanced CMPS?
Only a thought....... please !

These modules are included in the LDM distribution!

Although I did manage to break the formatting in a recent release - should be ok again with the 2.1.2 beta

:nervous::nervous: maybe I should learn to read further than the first paragraph.....
Thankyou.

Yes, finally 2.1.2 has arrived, I'll install it tonight. Andrew, are you going to create a feature that show how much bandwidth that user have left when downloading the file? That'd be very helpful to users.

Will do...

Andrew did you included the dutch language in this release?

ok. I can't take it anymore... I'm gunna install tonight (was gunna wait till official release but its toooo tempting. :p :))

that said...
you should set up a wiki for the Manual. :)

It's there, but all the language files need to be reviewed - there are new phrases which are mixed in, in English. Will appreciate help.

That is a rather nice idea..

Thanks Andrew...I'll have to send you something as a thank you gift when I get this running the way I want it...please have a donation link available in your site :D DONATE PEOPLE... this is a great little hack

I'll do it for dutch :)

wooT!~

upgraded to 2.1.2b, working great.
<< vb 3.5.3

one thing I noticed though...
can you have it so the thumbnail image uploads retain their name? for SEO purposes. :)

ps. glad you like the wiki idea. already see a couple little things that could use a little more detail in the instructions.
pps. if you a donate link up.. I'm SOOOOOO there. :)

thanks andrew, I'll install the beta later today.

found a bug (at least on mine)....

on thumbnail images where a remote link is used for the thumbnail, I get an error when I click the "enlarge image" +button thingy...

looks like this:

aw man...spoke too soon....

BUG (or something):

1. none of my previously uploaded videos/music files play any more. a newly uploaded one seems to work....but all old ones before the update don't. :/ hmm... which is the one in admincp that sets the path for jukebox playback? maybe I changed someting I shouldn't have. :(

2. if the link is wrong or the file is huge. open the jukebox. while still "connecting" close the window or press stop and close the window.

mine hangs the browser (ff and/or mathon/IE).

haaaalp!!

Thanks very much - installed 2.10 onto vb3.53 and it works beautifully.

One small bug - if you make a link category accessible only to members of a particular group, it seems that although not visible in the main page, the category is still available in the drop down menu - though you do get the no permission message. This, of course is a very very minor bug indeed :)

Just a thought - how about having group specific categories (maybe optionally) visible to non group members but with an 'available to members of zzz group only' or somesuch message in similar fashion to the way forum groups work?.

Yes, I'm part way through trying to redesign the access permissions. I made a mistake way back in version 0.something to use forum based permissions and most of the tricky questions since then have been a result of that decision. Bear with me - we'll get there in the end...

Oh b****ger.

Link 82 of local_links_resize.php in the includes directory should read

and not

Send me a PM with an admin username and pwd to your site - maybe you already did, but I've not got
it any more

done :)

replied - easy to fix

Hello,

There are .pl files in this, is PERL required?

No, those are part of my development kit - to build the product installer from the separate files, etc.

Andrew,

Thanks for the work you've put into this new release! I love the clickable link to show the full image! :D

Couple of questions/comments if I may...

Is it possible to substitute a small graphic (like a magnifying glass) for the "[+]" for the full sized image link?

The comments link still doesn't seem to allow non-members to add comments if the permissions were set to allow it.

I have a dark theme with a light gray font but some of the admin options seem like the background colors are hardcoded. How can I fix this?

will be included in second beta

if unregistered users are allowed to comment and try to do so, they will be asked to register

second beta uses correct styles for these boxes

But a bug nonetheless, thanks - will be fixed in the next beta.

Just so that you know - version 2.1.0 has an awful algorithm to build the category jump menu, which slows down badly as the number of categories increases above a hundred or so. The code in 2.1.2 beta is much faster (probably 50-100 times in your case), plus the option not to display the jump menu at all.

I have one category as the main index(forum link). Under that are many layers of sub-categories. The link in the forum only shows the latest added file in the main index. Not the latest added file of all categories.
The same goes for all categories I have linked with the forum; they only show the latest file in that categorie, not in all sub-categories thereoff.

Is there a solution yet for opening the pdf's straight from the link directory?

Question: Many users on my site have really would like to show a Progress bar on the Uploads. They dont really know whats happening when all it says is processing Is there anyway you can do this? By replacing code

Thanks Andy.

OK, understood. You would like the forum entry to show the latest entry in any of the child categories?

I'm sorry - I don't understand this question.

I believe that this is quite difficult to do. You have to have a separate process running on the web server to track how much has been uploaded, and, from what I've read, it doesn't work reliably on all systems.

How about imputing a Java Uploader to the add links page

the progress bar would be useful for me as well, not just my users lol.

Yes, I'd like the forum entry to show the latest entry in any of the child categories.

When clicking on a pdf in the LDM, it will not open. Since the earlier in this thread it was stated that there is no solution to this, I would like to know if you have found one in the mean time.

BTW; the new functions in the beta version look very promising. I will surely upgrade.

I wrote LDM mainly to handle pdfs on my site and it works just fine. The issue is about how Adobe Acrobat integrates itself with the browser. Depending on how you have set it up, the difficulty can be in triggering an Open/Save As dialogue.

Getting the following error..."Fatal error: [] operator not supported for strings in /home/takeback/public_html/forums/local_links.php on line 233". I get this from a link to a specific category (local_links.php?catid=1) or from within the LDM admin panel when clicking on view within the category structure section. You can see it here. Takebackcharlotte.com

I recently upgraded to VB 3.5.3, and LDM 2.1.2b. I was at 3.07 and 1.6 for a long time with no issues. I originally let it upgrade the 1.6 db and have since uninstalled, removed the tables and re-installed from scratch and then re-imported the links. Has anyone else seen this? Hopefully I fat fingered something in the install, but I'm running out of ideas...

Heres my version info...
Links Database
Code 2.1.2
MySQL 4.1.14-standard
PHP 4.4.0
allow_url_fopen Yes
cURL Yes
GD2 Yes
open_basedir /home/takeback/:/usr/lib/php:/usr/local/lib/php:/tmp

Thx -Dave

Hmm, Is there anyway to get a module for Vbadvanced that showed most downloaded files?

My fault, forgetting to initialise an array, although why this hits you and not others, I don't understand.

Can you try editing local_links.php, go to line 120 and add a line I hope that will fix it. Let me know.

ldm_hot in the modules subdirectory. Explained in the installation instructions, section 8.5