Tested Shadowbox today and discovered many cool things (unfortunately no solution to the U.S. financial crisis ;) ). Only 1 major bug, 2 minor bugs, and 3 feature requests:

Note: I tested in LDM-2.2.9-post1, which required edits to a LDM php file. For 2.2.9-post1, the local_links_include.php file was missing 2 functions, ldm_extra_is_loaded & ldm_extra_has_loaded, so I copied those functions into the file from 2.3.0-alpha1. Also, I had to insert ?global $ldm_extras_loaded; $ldm_extras_loaded = array();? into the ldm_general_init() function.

Awesome Bug Fixes: Wooowww, you are amazing Mr. AndrewD ? your Shadowbox plugin fixed these 2 nasty bugs: Bug report: IE popup errors when loading files > 5 MB & SERIOUS CONFLICT with media players & Yahoo script used by VB I assume that since only the jukebox template is loaded in Shadowbox and not the whole webpage, the Yahoo event script that conflicts with Firefox 2 is not loaded, so the players appear. For the IE error popups bug, don?t know how it was fixed but I?m sure glad it?s gone! :D

Videos Galore: Tested Shadowbox with 14 different video filetypes and codecs (Windows, Quicktime, Real & Flash) ? absolutely no problems!
Audio Pleasure: Tested Shadowbox with 6 different audio filetypes and codecs (Windows, Quicktime, Real & mp3) ? absolutely no problems!

Major Bug: Shadowbox does not display full-size images (magnifier link) for all image filetypes (jpg, png, gif, etc.). The Shadowbox pops up, but no images are displayed ? this occurs in both IE7 & Firefox 2. Could it be that the links_imgpage template is missing (I can?t find it anywhere, even in LDM 2.3.0-alpha1) so the image is not displayed? If not the case: to help debug, the Image Resizer mod can use its Shadowbox to display all images in LDM pages.

Minor Bug: When viewing a category?s entries list, clicking on an image thumbnail will show the full-size image in a new webpage. Can you fix it so that the full-size image shows in Shadowbox?

Minor Bug: Since JWPlayer is no longer set to play swf files, the video is not shown in Shadowbox. But users with Adobe Flash Player installed can still view the swf video in a new page when the entry?s link is clicked. Can you fix it so that the swf video shows in Shadowbox?

The ?open_musicbox_newwindow? setting must be enabled or else you?ll get the whole webpage embedded in the Shadowbox, which looks weird.
Shadowbox integrates fine with your flash-sites extra plugin.

Feature Request (luv this feature): when the WMP player is shown in the Shadowbox, there are ?+? & ?-? buttons below the player that can be clicked to enlarge or reduce the size of the player/ video. However, it appears only when the WMP player is used and only in IE7 ? can you enable those buttons for Firefox and all other players (Quicktime, Real, Flash)? If it?s just a WMP feature, then can you enable it for Firefox also?

Feature Request: For the Filmstrip extra plugin, clicking on the image thumbnail takes the user to a page displaying just that one entry. There?s already a link below the thumbnail that links to the same single-entry page, so can you enable the Shadowbox to show the full-size image when the thumbnail is clicked? I know the magnifier link will do this, but it?s more user-friendly to also have the thumbnail link activate Shadowbox.

Feature Request: Currently I think you have the media players embedded in the jukebox template which is embedded in the Shadowbox. Can you provide an option so that Shadowbox just shows the media player without the jukebox template? Also, if full-size images are embedded in a template, can you do the same for images? There?s 2 advantages to this: 1. the presentation looks cleaner (check out the demo movies on Shadowbox webpage for examples), and 2. the viewing is more streamlined because the user can navigate between entries within a category without leaving the Shadowbox (check out the ?Mixed Content Gallery? demo in Demos > Movies on Shadowbox webpage).

Question: what templates does Shadowbox use for the media players and enlarged images?
Thanks a lot Andrew for this wonderful plugin to your already awesome LDM mod! :D

When an entry with an audio/ video file is marked as Favorite and appears as a Featured entry and the JWPlayer handles its filetype, the JWPlayer (Flash & Silverlight) no longer shows the audio/ video inline for that entry in the regular entries list ? this only occurs in IE7. However, the JWPlayer still shows the audio/ video inline for that entry in the Featured listing.

Hi Andrew,

I'm trying to get this work but it seems that it is unable to scan and add files that have characters such as underscores or dashes in them.

Eg, I have a few files that look like [Hitode-AnimeSS]_Crystal_Blaze_-_03_[02376E4B].avi in a folder, but when i select all of them and try to add them,
the output is :

Clearly, it is having issues with such kinds of files, so do you know any work around for this ?

Thanks in advance!

Hello, I just get "Document Root not set, Edit local_links_init.php"

I imagine your web server is running on a Windows server with php installed in so-called CGI mode. The solution is explained in the LDM wiki, see http://www.eirma.org/wikis/index.php/Site_Configuration

Yeah its windows. Ill take a look now

Thanks - will deal with these points (keep in mind - it's not just a US financial crisis - it's global and the actions taken in many countries will affect us all)

Indeed, the links_imgpage template is new and required for images to work. Here's the template:

Just tried changing the path to C:\Inetpub\vhosts\radio1-online.com\httpdocs but didn't seem to work. Have tried several different things but just won't work

Just got it working with the root document.

But now im getting:

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_STRING in C:\Inetpub\vhosts\radio1-online.com\httpdocs\forum\includes\local_links_ini t.php on line 46

And none of the forum is working.

Never mind. Seems to be working now

But im a little confused as to why it says downloads with nothing in it and the files are in the catagories? if that makes sense

I have only just installed this mod - and so far I am only scratching at the surface of what it can do.

One thing - can the text in the Navbar be edited from Links/Downloads to just Links As I only intend using it for Links for the time being.

It is probably simple enough but I am not up to speed on all this.

Yes, edit the database_name field to "Links" in the LDM administrator control panel

I have done that but it is still appearing as Links/Downloads in the navbar!

Wonder have I missed something?:confused:

I imagine that you've enabled the "Add LDM to VB Navbar" plugin so that the access link appears in the navbar?

At the point where vb is generating its navbar, it doesn't have access to LDM's settings, so the text "Links/Downloads" has to be picked up from a phrase. You can change this text by going to vb/admincp/languages and phrases and finding and editing the phrase called ldm_vbmenu_ldm

This, as you said, is because I forgot to give you the template - see separate post

Will do

Need to think about the best way to do this. The answer is, of course, yes.

The extra will be fixed to over-ride the open_musicbox_newwindow. (I had intended to do so, but forgot)

I spent hours on this last year. The problem is that only certain players are easy to control with javascript. For WMP, the IE version can be controlled and the Firefox 2 version could not be (or at least there was no documentation to tell me how). I have not checked to see if Firefox 3 has a better WMP plugin which allows j/s resizing

Yes

I have just tested the gallery feature in Shadowbox and it works perfectly. So the next version of this extra will enable it on all LDM pages.

The extra will also allow you to specify the templates to use, defaulting to a 'naked' player and naked image. It will be straightforward to go back to the normal Jukebox

Exactly the same as the normal Jukebox (but see two of the answers above). This is all done using Shadowbox's "iframe" facility. It's not possible to access Shadowbox's inbuilt handling of movies and images, because Shadowbox works out what to do from the filetype it is processing rather than from the content it receives. LDM streams output via a php script.

Yes, this is a bug. The template processing doesn't like the square brackets. (Another part of the same code doesn't like apostrophes, but you haven't hit that one yet!) Unfortunately, it's not trivial to correct - I will work out a fix in the next 2.3.0 release.

Thanks a million Andrew - that worked a treat :up:

is it a bug please?

Thanks for the links_imgpage template. I tested Shadowbox with 6 image filetypes - no problems with jpg, png, & gif in IE7 & Firefox 2.

Image Bug: My current image processing library doesn't create thumbnails for bmp, tif, psd images. So I manually created jpg, png, gif thumbnails and added it to my bmp, tif, psd image entries. When I click on the magnifier, the Shadowbox appears but it shows the thumbnail, not the full-size bmp, tif, psd image. I know browsers can show bmp images, but can they show tif & psd images? If not, can you disable the magnifier link for them? If yes, can you enable Shadowbox for them?

links_imgpage Bug: There are some minor bugs with this template:
1. Image is not centered aligned for IE7, both horizontally & vertically.
2. No scrollbars in IE7 so larger images are cut off.
3. Template background/ "canvas" shows for smaller images.

Template Fix: Here's the template that I'm using:
1. Fixes horizontal alignment in IE7; still can't vertically align (even if I use tables).
2. Scrollbars in IE7 shows so larger images can be fully seen.
3. Template background/ "canvas" is minimized for smaller images.
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Image Tip: Currently, the plugin sets the image template width & height to the link_imagemagsize setting. This causes unnecessary scrollbars to appear for images equaling that size, probably because Shadowbox adds some margin or padding.
Solution: to show the full image without unnecessary scrollbars, add about 60 pixels to shadowbox_imgmag_width & shadowbox_imgmag_height in LDM settings. For example, my link_imagemagsize is set to 1024, so I used 1080.

Slow Image Loading: The images load slower than flash videos in Shadowbox. I have images about 1.5 Mb and flash about 15 Mb. Although the flash video is 10x larger, it loads up to 2x faster (~2 secs testing locally, whereas 1.5 Mb images can take up to ~4 secs - IE7 slower than Firefox 2, surprise.... surprise). Is it because the flash video is streamed but the image requires to be fully loaded? If that's the case, can you use the "lowsrc" attribute for <img> to load the thumbnail first?

Missed Click: Ok maybe I'm clumsy with my clicks :rolleyes:, but can you make the 'X' button to close Shadowbox larger? When you implement the Next & Previous buttons for the gallery feature, please make them larger also.

Anticipating...: I'm looking forward to the gallery features & 'naked' players/ images that you'll be implementing in the next version of the Shadowbox plugin. I'll be glad to test it for you! ;)

Does anyone have any idea why I have the "Downloads and links" title with nothing in the table, then I have the table underneath with all the catagories in. Please ask if you don't understand

Hello,

Also the "Uploadable filetypes and size limits" says 8mb, and can't seem to be able to change this.

Any idea how anyone?

You mean it looks like the attached? That's how it's designed to look.

The table at the top is used to contain the name of the current category. At the base level, this is considered to be the product itself, i.e. Links and Downloads Manager. After a search, it is the title Search Results. The table then contains the category's full description (which at the base level is empty), and possibly some accompanying information such as the current user's allowances, etc. It is possible to disable display of this table at the base level - it requires a small edit to the links_main template, which I think I have explained earlier in this thread.

The second table lists all the categories which have the current category as their parent.

If you are in a category with entries, there is then another table containing the category's entries.

and so on.

The upper limit on uploads is defined by two settings - post_maxsize and upload_max_filesize - in the site configuration file (php.ini) on your web server. Within that limit, you can apply smaller limits for non-admins via the vb/admincp/attachments table. These are explained in the wiki, http://www.eirma.org/wikis/index.php/Site_Configuration

hey did you consider my request about the favorite /playlist ?

take a look at the ll_rate_and_comment phrase. It should read
I suspect you'll find it does not. Not sure if that was my fault or if you have edited it at some stage.

I can't remember what that was, sorry?

Thanks. The image loading problem is serious, and I have noticed this myself. It's actually server cpu load, doing work which I think is not required with Shadowbox. (It's generating a correctly sized large thumbnail on the fly.) I'm going to rework this before launch.

For the rest, thanks very much for the testing - I'll deal with these in the next release.

it was a way to get your favorite (in my position the whole thin is just mp3) into a jukebox /playlist I don't know if you see whatno mean? Instead of having the table showing the same of the standard lmd you could have it be a flash player using your favorite as a playlist. I seen someone being able to do it with the same player you used. (well he used downloads II) but I'm sure it's the same principle

OK, I understand.

do you think it would be possible as an addons? or something like that? i know it's not complicated but i tried lol and it didn't work out so hopefully the smarter one will be able to

Hello,

I have added user fields via AdminCP

I also defined user field categories and associated the new user fields with their categories.

Everything worked fine until I uninstalled Links and Directory Management.

Since then:

• User Profile Field Categories are still showing fine in admin CP;
• All user fields are still in userfield table;
• The categorized user fields cannot be viewed via the "User Profile Field Manager" (but can still be accessed normally via admin's user data interface).

How can I get these fields to display again in the User Profile Field Manager?

Thank you.

I've just repeated the steps you described:
- installed LDM on a vb database
- created a new user profile category and field
- added a value
- checked that I could see it in the user profile
- uninstalled LDM
- killed LDM
- went back and checked the user profile field manager
- everything is ok

What version of LDM did you have installed when you removed it?

WOW! That's some great support, thanks.

Version 2.2.9 post 1, and when I re-install it I can see the fields again in adminCP

I have 614 entries.

When I do a validation of all url, it stope at the link 381 and search, search... (loading...)

what is the probleme please ? thanks

This problem happens when a site fails to respond to a valid prompt. There is currently no timeout set on the request - it is one of those things I should get round to implementing. You will see that there is a hyperlink that you can click to force the validation to continue with the next link.

http://www.radio1-online.com/forum/local_links.php

Its like theres meant to be something there - Just under the "Downloads" header

Indeed, someone else pointed this out. The empty line vanishes in 2.3.0, although I think it looks better than a bare header.

Do you mind that I am making the product Arab?

Not in the least - and if you submit the translation, I will include it in the standard release.

I did not understand .. Is it a rejection or approval .. Or you agreed with another person to make the product Arab?

I started translating the product to make it an Arab .. But if it does not agree to stop