I hope if do that ,I'm having hard time trying to translate it .Specially technical terms.

For the vbAdvanced module that goes with this... how can i adapt that to show replies as well?

Will this work with 3.5.3. Is it easy to use.

There seems to be a lot of great features that I like.

Is there a cost for this software? Willing to pay if it allows for higher quality.

Is it possible to improve the Search function? I have almost 1000 files and if I do a Search or advanced search for something I get nothing shows up.
Example:
File Cat v1
Cat v2
Cat v3
Cat v4

If I search for 'Cat' it says I have nothing named Cat. If I search for 'Cat v1' then that file will show up, but not the other ones. It seems that you need to type the exact file name for it to show up.

Also, if you have several files with similar names, the search seems to bypass them and say you have nothing with that name.

Example:
Dogpic
Doghair
Dogdung

Typing in 'Dog' under search does not show those files unless you you type in the exact file name. I'm using v2.1.2. Any ideas?

BTW, is there a way to have it make a link to display the newest 10 files uploaded? Or perhaps a link to a page showing them or even showing the top 10 downloaded files, etc.?

Cheers

Looks great. Subscribing to add when I upgrade my system.

Thanks!

Andrew,
The new version is looking fantastic. It had been a couple of betas since I last upgraded, but with all of the new stuff in this one I had to upgrade and it worked flawlessly. Fantastic job.

With that said, I have a question and a couple comments:
1. [EDIT: I answered my own question and implemented this myself] In the photo linkbit - is it possible to have it so when you click the thumbnail, it directly opens the main picture, instead of going to the entry? But, if you click the text (the name of the pic) under the thumbnail, it still goes to the entry.
2. [EDIT: This is not a bug, I see how the Scan function works now. The placement of the category jump menu is confusing because it is so close to the directory selectmen drop-down, and they look related]Possible bug: When you are using the "Scan" function, when you select the category in the drop-down list, it sends you automatically to the category page you chose, instead of simply selecting the category and allowing you to scan. So when you select category currently, you immediately have to press back to stay on the same page.
3. Thumbnails: I struggled to get the "thumbnail caching" feature to work. However, I realized that I need to write the correct permission for the "thumbs_dir" folder, and then it worked perfectly. You should remind people that they need to "777" the thumbs directory.
4. Recent comments: I still think it would be a very nice idea to have the option of having the last 2-3 comments visible inside each entry table. I'm not a graphic artist either, but I think it would be possible to create a subtable inside each entry box underneath the descriptions area that says "Recent Comments" at the top, with a very basic display of the last 2-3 comments inside, and has the "Add Comment/View Rating" link to the main comments entry screen at the bottom.

Thanks Andrew.

Thank you for the update.

Ok. I installed LDM 2.1.0 - and added some categories and a few links.

Everything looks good - except...

When I click/hover over a category link, it shows the wrong URL.

Links Show:
Which gives a 404.

You can test it for yourself:

url: http://forums.designerfusion.com
Username: test
Password: test


Please let me know how/why etc.

I really need this fixed asap.

I'm currently running LDM and my site has two styles, the "Default" style and the "Approx" style which I installed after installing LDM. Well, I have a problem that when I view my site in the Approx style, I cannot see the "Last Post" information on the Category Link I created to connect to the LDM main page (Category: Exhaust Sound Clips Collection). The "Last Post" info DOES appear when I use the Default style, however. I tried reinstalling the LDM product with overwrite but it did not fix the problem. Any ideas on how to fix this issue?

http://www.mustangexhaust.com/forums/index.php

-Nino

just a reminder that he's out on vacation for a few weeks.

It looks like you have the seo_friendly option enabled. You can disable it, which will work or you'll have to configure your apache configuration file to allow for custom mod rewrites. See the manual, click on clever stuff, choose item 8.3.

Excellent!

Did the job perfectly.

Thanks for the tip. ;)

777?

Isn't this bad to do from a security standpoint?

Does anyone know how to make this show the total amount of files list in vbportal under the mini-stats area?

I do not know, to be honest, all I know is that the website has to be able to write to whatever your thumbs directory is in order to create the thumbnails. It seems that only doing it to your thumbs direc. isn't so bad, assuming that's all you use the directory for.

Something I've been pondering over is if this can be made into a credit system for a forum. Each user gets "X" amount of download credits to spend. They can get more credits if they upload files, post in the forums, or even get double credits if they click on a banner ads (this would be limited to given once per day per user though). Would something like this be able to done?

Cheers

@Langly: I really like that idea. I think www.animeotaku.info uses a system like that. I have asked how to do it but Ranma never got back with me. :(

Does anyone know how to place restrictions on the number of links a user can click on in a 24 hour period? I host large downloads and need to only allow each user to download x number of files a day. Any help would be appreciated.

Yes, this is in 2.1.2 beta, in the Administration dropdown menu under "Download Quotas". You can choose file limits per day or bandwidth limits per day, based on user groups.

Any way to disable the link checking? It always seems to fail for me.

I would like to be able to set up a credit type of system also.

Hy

I got a problem with uploading larger File. I always get a File Size to big error when i try to upload larger File than 8 MB.

This 2 parameters are set to 20M in php ini File.

The Limit in vb Attachments is set to 20Mb too.

Do Anybody have a idea?

cu
SwissPegasus

Peoples browsers will typically time out after 8megs which is why most host providers max the uploads to 8megs. How I got around this was to split larger file into under 8meg files. It also makes your file database look larger than it is ;)

Great hack, installed.

Couple concerns: It appears that when a non-mod/non-admin submits a link, he's able to choose the "When Submitted" date. IMO this shouldn't be allowed - anyway to disable it? Same goes with the "Review Frequency". I don't want me reg users to decide how often their link needs moderating... And also the display order can be chosen? Am I missing a setting or something?

TIA.

is it possible to include a screenshot with a non-image upload? instead of having it as a url, have it as a upload. is that possible?

btw, is this hack still being supported?

edit:

im wondering if it's possible to edit the local_links.php so that it will allow the user to upload an image instead of specifying a url for the location of the image. here is the part that needs editing in local_links.php:

can anyone help?

I'm pretty sure this hack will get my vote over ecdownloads. This one looks way nicer and seems to have much more functionality. One question though:

Is it possible to extract some variables that displays download stats? Smth like this:

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/

I'm pretty sure that total files, downloads (hits) and catagories arent much of a problem, since I've seen screens that display them. Its the total traffic I'm mostly interested in. :cheeky: And will I then be able to display those stats on any page? Preferably the front page of a vbadvanced portal.

Thnx in advance for answering this.

Also, the "what's hot", "whats new",etc. functions don't seem to work for me!

huh. works for me. fantastic mod.

/me installed it today and pumped in 40 links. Tomorrow maybe I'll get off my ass.

Andrew's taking what I imagine is a much needed break.

Fixed it. It was a conditional in the Approx template that would not allow lastpostinfo to appear if the category was a link. Took the conditional off and all is well.

Does anyone if it would be possible to disable the "local_stream.php" fucntion? I want to use this in correlation with Htaccess anti-hot linking, but becuase of stream.php (http referrers not passed), it does not work properly.

I want to use a direct link -- would that be possible?

Does anyone know how to make the download page (when someone clicks to download a file) bring up another page with google ads or adbrite ads etc. on them like rapidshare.com and megaupload.com do?

is this system integrated with either uCash or eBux?

Works great and brought over all the links I had from vb 3.0.x ... thanks!

There's no cost - and I hope you find it easy to use.

If your example is accurate, the problem is probably with MySQL's fulltext search, which LDM uses by default. The search engine in MySQL skips short words. If you really want to find short words, then you have to use the LIKE searching method. Try setting match_using_like on the LDM admin settings page

I've been doing a lot of work on the search feature with TundraSoul - this should be ready to go live soon - and I will check that it works better with your case.



This is more or less what the LDM modules for vbAdvanced do.

Noted - thanks


I've thought about this and am considering a javascript 'pop up' when you hover over the 'ratings/comments'. There are two things I have to look out for - first, screen space, and second, keeping the sql efficient. Building the linkbit is already rather hairy - it requires a 'Join' on about five tables and I'm concerned that adding another join may slow things down badly. But if we handled this with a pop up, then we could keep the sql efficient.

I think this would be fairly easy to code, however it's not on my list of things to do!!

There will be a setting for this in the next release - but can you take a look at the listing at the bottom left of your LDM admin page and report what it says - basically, is allow_url_fopen on and is curl available?

Good point - these need a permission check - will add.

Display order already has one - - can_set_display_order

Yes, this is an easy module for the vbadvanced plugin. Will you be happy with total traffic, etc, in the last 30 days? The information you want comes from a table that keep track of people's accesses to LDM - and the admin is able to prune that table to keep it small, so I'd recommend a time limit