You said that it has slowed down - which version of LDM were you running before? The only change I can think of is that LDM now uses the cURL library when it is available. (You can see what is being used by looking at the table which is printed at the bottom left of the LDM admin pages.) I wonder if curl is slower than fopen?

LDM 2.0.6

AndrewD here are a few more suggestions that came in from our members.

When adding/editing a link/file, please allow the user to input the "When submitted" date. Often I would rather use the published date instead of the date the link/file is added. I have about 2,800 press releases I would like to add, but I can't unless I can set a real date for them.

The next suggestion is a personal request to make the links more SEO compliant. So for instance, instead of using local_links.php?action=links&catid=2, you could use local_links.php/accessories/ to list the category. It's important that the search engines be able to find the filenames or link names and index them correctly.

I think I mentioned some of this before, but it has to do with Keywords, and Searching. Many users are complaining that it's hard to find files/links, which are relevant to them. It's really not a big deal if you only have a few dozen links, but when you have hundreds or plan to have thousands, it quickly becomes a big deal. Sorting through all the links looking for those relevant to you or your search is very time consuming and frustrating.

Thanks for all the hard work!

Funny thing is, I hit this problem today myself. Will put it on the 'to-do' list

I'm assuming that this would be a site-option, and turned on when you are using e.g. mod_rewrite, yes?

Again, I have this problem also - I'm up to over a thousand documents. I think the best approach to enable the admin/user to place arbitrary keywords on links, regardless of the category they are in. Also the search results need paginating, perhaps with the option to use the results of one search as the start of the next - although this would need a lot of work.

Yes, the server would need mod_rewrite enabled to use this function.

I would consider Keywords an somewhat useful enhancement. However there's no point if the user doesn't put any words in or if they're the same words as the title. The majority of users are lazy and will not input any keywords at all. I've seen this when they upload photos and other content, we barely get a description with it.

Another option, be it a personal preference that I've mentioned before, is link associations. This associates the link/file with something from the users profile. More importantly this creates an association between the user and something they're interested in. Ultimately this can allow the user to search for links/files that are relevant to them. It's a very powerful method of presenting content/files/links based on the users interests, and choices. :drool:

I was wondering if anyone could help suggest how to setup a folder/ftp system on my site.

There's a couple people that want to help me set up the links/files section but I don't want to give them access to the whole site via ftp. I was thinking I could remap the downloads folder to a separate ftp for them so whatever they put in their ftp shows up in the downloads folder on the web. Are there any other ways I can do this?

Also if this is the way to go, how would I set up the scan directories and all the other settings to where it puts the uploads and all?

cool.... just wondering what infomation is stored in the database with regards to link click / downloads is there a timestamp submitted or something just wondering for my own purposes.... because you have in the "whats hot" section i think hot links from the last 30 days... how does this work?

I have upped the file attachment size to 50 megs, but when I upload a 7 meg file I get a "file too large" error message. I believe my php.ini file is 96 megs... Do you have any idea why this isn't uploading these?

Also I would like to be able to assign the upload to a username in case I am uploading materials for another person....

Thanks Andrew!!!

Sean

Yes, the linksdownloads table has a record with the following fields for each 'hit':
linkid, url, username, userid, user IP address, timestamp
There also a userbrowser field, but it's no longer used.

There are some analysis features available under administer/statistics/hits/view hits, where you can get tabulations sorted in certain ways. It's a bit rudimentary.

I think that the relevant parameters in php.ini are as these:
upload_max_filesize
post_max_size
max_input_time

There are also the per-mimetype settings in your VB/admincp/attachmenets/extensions and sizes

Will think about it. Why not just log on as them?

Andrew, how about you allow the people to upload an icon instead of putting in a url, have the program scale/resize the picture, then store it on the hard drive?

I use an Ensim server which runs the site in high security which runs the site in a chroot environment. It seems I am having a problems with the pathnames. I tried the example you put above (relative to mine) and I got no sucess... Any suggestions?

Thanks,

Sean