Good :) what was the solution?

I think the real solution is to pull the standalone and embedded player code into a different code file. I'll do this in the next version of 2.3.0, and also put the scroll bars back.

ok thanks. Will wait for this before taking it live

There were some bugs in the flash-sites extras plugin, so I decided to debug them. There are a total of 10 video sites whose videos can be embedded. Here are the fixes:

1. Added ?transparent? wmode to all flash sites so videos can be played in Firefox 2.
2. Changed allowScriptAccess from ?always? to ?sameDomain? to reduce security risks.
3. Added 4 missing icons for supported video sites.
4. Added Spike video site. Actually, this is a pattern & embed fix for the iFilm site, which was bought by Spike so iFilm is not accessible.

Known Issues:
DailyMotion & ThatVideoSite embedding do not work. VSocial works, but has limited use since it?s a paid service.
Request: Andrew, can you debug the DailyMotion pattern matching so videos can be embedded (no rush, not a top request)?

Included in zip file (for release with the next LDM version):
flash-sites-plugin.xml ? no change
sample-test-videos.xml ? changed iFilm link to Spike link
readme.txt ? added note about above known issues
local_links_flashsites.php ? fixed 4 bugs mentioned above
icon folder ? added 4 more icons

To install, read the readme.txt file?. that's what it?s for ;)

Since you're thinking about redoing the code for the player pages, can you consider using either the Shadowbox or LightWindow media viewer?
The presentation of both the standalone and embedded players are not user friendly like that of the JW flv & wmv players. The standalone player requires a new window, which is against users' preference of no popups, and the embedded player requires a new page load, which is time & resource consuming. The JW players are user friendly because users can view videos on category's entries listing pages without requiring popups or page loads. The Shadowbox & LightWindow would create a more user friendly interface.

Both the Shadowbox & LightWindow are similar to Lightbox, but for videos - they can display Windows, Quicktime, & Flash videos. They can even show entire web pages, forms, image galleries, & PDF's. There's 2 main differences between those scripts. LightWindow is MIT licensed so it's freely available; however, it's dependent on the Prototype & Scriptaculous libraries. On the other hand, Shadowbox is licensed under the Creative Commons Noncommercial_Share-Alike license so it's free for personal use, but $20 for commercial use; however, it's much more flexible with required JS libraries - you can use the author's custom JS library, Yahoo YUI, Prototype, jQuery, Dojo, etc. In my experience from trying both media viewers with the Image Resizer mod, I found that Shadowbox is more compatible with vBulletin than LightWindow - ie: it can show images in posts, profiles, groups, albums, and even LDM!
You can find out more about the media viewers at:
Shadowbox: http://mjijackson.com/shadowbox/
LightWindow: http://stickmanlabs.com/lightwindow/#why

Thanks for considering. :)

I will certainly consider these. Web presentation of videos has moved on quite a lot since 2004, when the players were originally coded. I think that a javascript based approach is the right way to go at the moment.

However, there are limits to the time I have available for this work and each new feature added is one more item to support. This is a particular problem when there are several interdependent pieces of software which are not under my own control - there are not many good people like you who are willing to devote time to debugging and documenting.

So the short answer is, I'll see what I can do, but I'm not going to commit to anything at this stage.

Thanks - will include in next release.

Andrew i know you're busy but i asked a question at VBulletin.com about notices in 3.7.3 PL1 because i couldnt set a notice to be shown if a user was viewing http://www.thecodecage.com/forumz/local_links.php they told me to ask back here, of course local links is your page in VB, i was wondering whether you can help me with this issue?

I have a suggestion please if it's possible :

l want that we can choose for all modules of vbadvanced the id of categorie.

exemple :

we can do that the module ldm_tagcloud works only with the categorie 3.

thanks very mush.

It's straightforward to write a plugin which will display a notice when users visit LDM. What do you want to say and how do you want it said? (i.e. is this to be added to the page layout, to be a popup or what?)

I will take a look to see. Several of the modules already have this choice.

I wanted to use vbulletins notice system (doesn't matter if its your own) to show a disclaimer (pop up is better i feel) to users something like:
of course i would like to be able to edit it, and it needs to be persistant but show only once per visit, if you're not using vbulletin notice maybe it can be a click to accept or decline (decline should take them back to /.home.php), thanks for taking the time to look at this!

Perhaps integration with the vb notice system is something I should look into. Have your already spotted that LDM offers a force_accept setting? Whe this is on, users must accept standard terms (set out in the links_agreement template and the ll_agreement phrase) before being able to access and download entries. A user is presented with this form at most once per day.

Guess i've been pretty dim!, anyway i have edited that only, how do i get it to show the username {username} or {musername} and when they click decline they get thet decline message (which i edited) but also get the accept message along with the accept/decline buttons, clicking on the decline takes you back to the same message?

can you add arabic language to Plugin ?

I took a look at Shadowbox - I agree that this is a sensible way to go. Let's see what we can do...

I can't :)

Do you want to do a full translation? - early on, someone did a very partial one, but they stopped quite quickly.

Perhaps I misled you - the force_accept does not provide an interface to the vb notice system, nor does it handle any replacable parameters.

Yes i understand that (except replacable parameters, im very new to this coding lark!), right now it is what i need but i would like to be able to show the username, if its not possible then no worries, but when you click decline you get the decline message along with the accept message can we seperate them?

Thanks !

I have a little probleme with the comments when I upgrade LDM 2.3.0.

why there is write 0 comments but there is a comment :

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/

Is there anyway that you can make so you can upload like 2 images to the file you've uploaded?

First (3 images or 1 showing the content of the file etc)
http://img297.imageshack.us/img297/1135/inthecatnn2.jpg

Second (When you've opened the file in the category).
http://img150.imageshack.us/img150/4...nupfilerb0.jpg

Many thanks.

Yes, this can be done with the "Additional Attributes" features. Basically, you define on the admin attributes page how many and what type of additional information you want to be able to add (extra images, extra files, etc). You then refine the settings on the category control settings page, to allow you to control the layout and display per-category.

These were a new feature in version 2.2.9, and the interface is still being developed, so the 2.3.0 beta will add more flexibility. However, they work, and I think they can do what you want.

Ah, very nice.

One thing though, I made a test file > http://crinale.com/forums/local_link...id=10&linkid=5

But the image doesn't work, I made so you have to put in a image URL but it seem not to work, nor show the thumbnail in the category list.

Andrew any ideas on the above?

Is it possible to perhaps add a boolean something like in a php (don't know which one):
and then perhaps this in the links_agreement template (i guessed that one!):
to show just the declined message, it doesn't matter about an ok button as in the message i have a link to take them back to forums.

OK, I've been trying to figure out how to use this, i want to use one entry per wallpaper set, some wallpapers have widescreen version and a normal one.

I only want to add some sort of text link or image link to allow widescreen download, doesn't matter if the thumbnail is only one... so. How can i do this? :eek:

Totally lost on attributes u.u

Hmm... Andrew is there a faq in your site for this? :D

Thanks

Great, I'm glad you like Shadowbox also :D Let me know if you want any help testing your new scripts.

Andrew, is there anyway to seperate the messages perhaps like the above? if so i need some guidance please!

Simon, I have seen your posts but I have a full time job to do. I will try to give you an answer at the weekend. Please be patient :)

Forgive me! :( i understood that when i visited your site a short while ago!

Oh, I checked the wiki, now i'm playing to make my link, should have read before, sorry u.u

Hi, have you enabled images by setting a thumbnail size using ldm/admin/settings/link_imagesize?

It's easier than that.

Edit the links_agreement template, and find these lines:

and replace them with this:

That way, the two phrases (ll_agreement and ll_agreement_declined) are kept totally separate.

Andrew, thanks for the support and time you spent on this but if i could just make one more request, is it possible not to show the radio buttons or the go button when decline has been selected, as i said the decline message has a link in it back to forums, i could of course add another link back to the ldm page and perhaps call the links "Back to forums" and "Try again".

Missed that part, sorry.

It's just a matter of moving the close of the <if> test a bit further down in the links_agreement template, for example

Andrew, briliant thanks!!!!!!

Hello ,
I have a problem when I try to import the product please look at this picture :

http://t7meel.cc//uploads/images/t7m...0fb22a3dbf.png


and I have this database error when I try to open the hack CP :

I have traid to import the product in 3 different forums but still same problem

please tell me how to resolve it

thank you

It looks as if it is not completing the installation, but I have no idea why. If you send me a PM with site details and an admin account, I will take a look.

Maybe you can try this. It patches LDM to use Shadowbox for the Jukebox and as an alternative lightbox for the LDM image magnifier.

Wow, you are amazingly fast Andrew! Will test it out and report back. Thanks ;)