Now I understand...

If you use the admincp to change the 'default forum' *after* you have created links/categories, the permissions for those that already exist do not get reset automatically. You can change them one at a time as you did, or you can go to the admin/categories page, where there is a feature to mass edit the access permissions. The documentation explains this, but I realise that it is probably not what people expect.

Concerning changing the title in the breadcrumb, this feature is available in the VB3.5 version of this hack. I've stopped updating this VB3.0.x code (unless there are serious bugs) - it's too much work to keep the two versions in sync - I'll add the 'default forum perms' to the 'to do' list.

It?s in your phrases. Have a look for either "ll_menu_home" or "ll_links_database".

Andrew, as you haven?t replied, i guess it must be quite difficult to do those changes in showthread. I? ll give it a try myself then...

Tradjik, sorry that I didn't reply.

My time has been given to producing the VB35 version of this code - it has been quite an exercise to make sure that everything works properly - the VB people have written quite a bit of the interface.

This means also that the changes that interest you in showthread will probably be coded in a different way, e.g. as a plugin rather than code change. It may be worthwhile waiting for VB35 to go gold.

When the system changes so much, i won?t mess around with it yet as vB Gold will be relased in the near future.

Thanks for keeping me informed.

Hey man,thanks for the reply,I gave your suggestion a try but it doesnt seem to work.I changed the phrase for "ll_links_database" which was originally called "Links Database" to "Downloads" but it still shows up as "links database" i even deleted the phrase file completely and uploaded the new modified version and still the same.

I have created subcategories of all 50 states...I would like to copy (or export) these subcategories under another top-level category...is there a way to do this? I would hate to enter all 50 states again manually.

I tried exporting the file and then importing it, but it doesn't look like I can select a top-level category and import in that way.

Any help is greatly appreciated. Thank you.

There is no 'mass copy' command available for categories (it is 'copy' you want, not 'move'?), but I'm sure there is an easy way to do this. Let me think about it and get back to you soon.

That's correct, I would like to copy 50 subcategories from Top-level category #1 to Top-level category #2. Thanks :)

Here you are. Edit lines 27 and 28 of this script to hold the category ids to copy FROM and TO. Upload and run. It will clone all categories that are children of the FROM into TO, leaving the new ones empty.

Probably a good idea to back up your database first. ;) Let me know that it works.

Also a good idea to delete the script when you've run it - otherwise your friendly hackers may decide to keep cloning things for you.

Andrew

Excellent!!!! Worked Like A Charm!!! Thank You!!! :D

(Was wondering...is there a way to import 50 or so links into specific categories? I have about 237 links - half go in one top-level category, and the rest in the other...I really don't know how else to do it but to manually enter each. If you have a soltuion for this I would REALLY appreciate it! THANKS!)

Why not create a csv file and use the import/export feature, see instructions.txt?

link,link_name,link_url,link_desc,link_catid,link_ forumid

The first field contains the word "link".
link_name, link_url and link_desc are text fields
link_catid and link_forumid are numbers, link_forumid being optional

Thanks for clarifying that for me..I didn't quite understand the instructions. Woohoo! Thank you!

Hi AndrewD .. :)

I know you're working mainly on the 3.5 version of this hack .. but, due to the amount of hacks I have on my forums, I'm not going to be moving over to 3.5 for, it seems, years ..

Any chance you could add the "new features" you've added to the 3.5 version to this one?

The main one for me would be the "change of styles per cat" feature which I suggested, although the comments feature would be nice too ;)

What do you think?

I'm really sorry, but I cannot spend the time to back-implement these changes - there are so many new features in the 2.x code and I have hardly the time to cope with these.

:( .. bugger, that's a shame.

Could you at least point me in the direction of how to add the styles per cat feature? .. as that's all I need really.

Thanks :)

I realised why this didn't get implemented with VB version 3.0.x. It's easy enough to modify the hack to prompt the user for a style, but the style change actually happens inside VB's global.php - this is the routine that prepares the ground for everything else, including loading styles. With vb3.5, the new plugin system allows one to implement what you wanted without having to change any standarde code (actually I asked the vb people for a hook to make this possible) - but with vb 3.0, you have to start recoding global.php.

Hey AndrewD,
Glad to say i have been using Links & files database without a single problem since my last post.Now i have a little question to ask i can't figure out pertaining to the links_linkbit template.I notice that it uses the Legend and Fieldset CSS but i can not get the fieldset border to change colors.I already added the code into the forums CSS and it works fine on all parts of the forum except in your mod where the default grey color border still shows.Is there a way i can make it match the rest of the forum?The below image will show what i mean.The top portion of the image shows how it looks on the rest of my forums,and the bottom shows how it looks in your hack which is installed on my forum.Thanks as always :)

http://img350.imageshack.us/img350/9...ison9xf.th.jpg

Hi.

I modified my fieldset style definition in the admin.css as follows:

and attach screen shots of the newthread and linkbit displays. Both have picked up the red border correctly.

I wonder - have you applied your fieldset edit to the style that is being used within the links database?

Hmm so where can i find the admin.css?and which stylesheet does the links database use exactly?Thanks for your reply.

and yes i believe i did apply it it to the stye being used by links database :) on my forum i only have two skins at the moment.One called "Neo-WU" which is my custom skin that i am using on my forums/links database,and the default forum skin which comes with vB which i have disabled.

Sorry, too much shorthand. By admin.css, I meant the standard VBulletin admincp page, Styles & Templates, Style Manager, Main CSS. I tried to reproduce your problem by changing the definition for fieldset in the Additional CSS Definitions.

In the vb3 version, the links database uses whatever style has been loaded by default.

Maybe if you let me know your style sheet definition, I can try to reproduce the problem here.

alright i just took some screen shots of the admin CSS stuff.Here is the images hope they will do :) don't know any other way to show you the CSS.
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/

Additional CSS-
and my CSS for vbulletin_editor.css is as follows

I think your css definition for .fieldset needs the 'solid' keyword.

ie should be

Already tried this as well :) someone over at vBulletin.com suggested it and it wouldn't work.matter in fact the only way i could get it to work even on the main forums was by adding the fieldset.css to the vbulletin_editor.css file.When i add the fieldset to the additional css options it doesnt seem to have any effect on the forums at all no matter what way i put it in.

I have tried-
".fieldset { margin-bottom: 6px; border: 1px solid #322723; }"
"fieldset { margin-bottom: 6px; border: 1px solid #322723; }"
".fieldset { margin-bottom: 6px; border: 1px #322723; }"
".fieldset { margin-bottom: 6px; border-color: 1px solid #322723; }"
".fieldset { margin-bottom: 6px; border: 0px solid #322723; }"

These were the suggestions i got from vB.com forums as i couldn't get a response here at vB.org :( but i'm just stumped on this.

Maybe the best way to solve this is to look at a dump of the browser display. Is your site live? Or just go to local_links.php, do a view source, save it and email it to me at ad_rodin at noos.fr Make sure that you turn off 'Store CSS Stylesheets as Files?' on the admincp

Alright i will do that in a moment.Thanks alot for all your support :) i just want to get that white border out of there.Just looks so ugly and doesn't match the rest of the site/forums.I know if worse came to worse i could edit the source code a remove the <fieldset> options but i really would prefer to fix it rather then work around it,Don't want to do anything that may cause trouble in the future.

If you mean is my site online then yes it is but it's not avalible to any public yet.I am a part of a team and the main admin is the only one who can turn it on/off.And "Store CSS as files" is turned off as well.

:EDIT:E-mail is sent.Let me know if it comes through not sure if i got the e-mail address correct.

Got it. Your css definition for fieldset is immediately after a definition for input:

And you've ended the input definition with a closing parenthesis rather than brace.
Magic!

Oh man!I can't believe i didn't see that.Thanks :D it's working now.

by the way quick question.I was wondering if you plan to impliment options for permissions into your mod :) i know you have it where the links database uses permissions from a selected forum but will there ever be stand alone permissions?

kinda like this? http://www.busepa.de/pics/dl.jpg

I've wondered about that a number of times - because people have had more difficulty understanding the forum-based permissions than anything else. It's not high on my priorities, as the forum approach works very well for our own purposes and anything else would require a full rewrite.

However --- in the VB35 version, I have added an extra permission 'can_access_links' which sits on top of the whole system and is per-usergroup. Using this, you can turn on/off access to all links for some user groups.

Ah i see,That sounds exactly like what i've been waiting for :) Will it be catagory based?for example if i have catagory 1 and catagory 2.I can set #1 to not allow guest usergroup to not view,and in #2 guest usergroup can view?

i have tried many types of link managers and so far yours is the best i have come across.The forum-based permissions took a bit of getting used to because alot of our forums allow everyone to view.Looks like i will be upgrading to vB 3.5.0 soon.Been holding off to wait for it to reach it's final build.

No, that's the point - the additional setting is all or nothing.

But the easy way to use the forum-based permissions is simply to create a few extra forums to which you give the required different group permissions, then assign category 1 to the first, category 2 to the second, etc.

-- edit -- wrong forum sorry

3.5?

Pardon?

so, what is the latest version of this hack for vB 3.X.X and are the install instructions bugfree now? ;)

seems like an awsome addition, but i'm not sure if it's safe to install :p

Long time, no talk, my friend. ;)

You are perfectly safe to use this. I use the 3.5 version and wouldn't be without it. ;)

Heya Boofo mate,

long time not seen allright. But i'm back in town ;)
I'll swing by the bearfacts board sometime again hu :)

Thanks so much for this, it's great.

I've one question though:

Is there anyway to change the title "Links and Download Manager" this is after I click the links button on the header?

Thank so much

Hello - have you posted this in the right place? Are you using VBulletin 3.0 or 3.5? campusforum seems to be using version 3.5.3.

With the version of LDM that runs on vb 3.5, the title "Links and Download Manager" can be changed on the LDM admin/settings page, in General Settings, database_name

i'm following the install instruction, everything has been uploaded as requested, but when i try run the install file i get

Are you trying to install this on a VB 3.5x board? This version is strictly 3.0 only