I've taken a look at your site - you'll find that I've created a test category and put a couple of entries in it. Everything worked fine for me, once I got past some early problems with VB itself. I found that your board was continuing to give me messages about missing profile fields, even though I had entered them all.

I wonder if you are having problems with caching - messages getting trapped somewhere in the pipeline from your server to the browser.

Let me know if you are still having problems.

Hello,

Im relatively new to VB so go easy with me ;)

I have LDM installed and it works great! I use it so that anybody can download quizzes and registered users can download quiz answers.

99% of the registered users come to my site just to download the answers without interacting with the site.

Would it be possible to configure LDM so that:
Catagory A - Anybody could download (inc unregistered users)
Catagory B - Only Registered Users with N posts can download

Thanks

VinylJunky

Yes, this is certainly possible. There is a folder in the release/extras directory called "limit-useraccess". This contains a number of VB "plugins", one of which (limitaccess-byposts-plugin.xml) does precisely what you require. The sample is configured so that, for all users except administrators, if they have less than 10 posts, they are allowed one download a day.

If you feel comfortable ediing/installing plugins, you can adjust this as you like. Otherwise, get back to me and I will gladly help you to install a modified version.

I have to confess that Im not a coder so some help would really be appreciated.

This is what Im trying to achieve:

Catagory A - Anybody could download (inc unregistered users)
Catagory B - Only Registered Users with N posts can download

Thanks

VJ:up:

Send me a PM with details of your site and an exact indication of "N" and I will set things up for you during the weekend. I'll need an account with admin privs.

Hi,
I did installed 2.27 and it's great!

but i just can download my wmv movies and can not see them in Jukebox.

Sorry it's working now.

Thanks.

Hi,
How can i move this text to the right (see pic)?

hi Andrew
i have 2 questions:
1 - is it possible to view video files that are setup to be streamed in Wimpy?
2 - does it take too much time to modify LDM to be able to add multiple URLs per entry? (i've seen it on Wishlis, actually i suggested this :d. the problem is that i badly need this, so any info/help would be appriciated)

thanks in advance

about multiple URLs: i think it would be VERY USEFUL to be able mirror base url
for example: Mirror 1 Base URL: http://www.baseurl1.com/folder
Mirror 2 Base URL: http://www.baseurl2.com/folder
in add entry page you would see for each mirror one text field in which you could just enter the folder and filename... mirror 1 : folder_blah/blah_file.zip

this is useful, when you for some reason HAVE TO change your directory structure or the path you saved the files there. then you won't have to edit more than 1000 entries, it's enough to just edit the mirror base url :d

2.2.7 is now the official release.

New code has been uploaded with the Spanish and French translations completed (thanks ObMob and PitchouneN64ngc) and a new Chinese translation (thanks ItsBlack), plus some minor bug fixes:
- a couple of phrases
- the admin/category template
- sorting of the stats on the home page

Good luck!

Edit the links_linkbit template, and find these lines and change the third line as indicated

to

Not sure if you're asking if wimpy can be used for video files? - answer is 'yes' for flash-based files - there are instructions in the extras/wimpy-player directory.

I realise this is important to some sites. It's not a trivial change, but I've promised to look at the whole question of extra fields for the next release (without promising when that will happen).

Did you know that you can do a 'mass edit' of all your entries in one go on the admin/categories/mass edit pages?

thank you for your reply :)
i does it also work for video files? i taught it's only for Audio files

thank you very much :)

yes but how do i make it only change baseurl and let filename remain?

There are three plugins in the wimpy-player directory. wimpyplayer-flash-plugin.xml handles flash videos



See image. Admin/categories/ then usually easiest with access permissions/mass edit. Then go down to the bottom of the page, check 'select all entries' and select edit, then put the old and new base urls between the # characters in the regular expression boxes. Be careful, as this is an irreversible process. It's a good idea to take a backup.

wow cool
thank you.
but i need the mirroring system too, because i have more than 3000+ entries on LDM and each file has min. 30 MB, so the server gets lag most of times if i don't different mirrors.
the idea is that i have 2 own mirror servers and use freehosts besides this.
btw. it would be nice it the would be a possibility to check server load on each mirror to determine which mirror fits best. this could be done via a PHP file placed on each server or .... ;)

This one works with 3.6.4 and above right ?

It works with all versions 3.6 and it should work fully with all versions of 3.5

i tried to make LDM play flv with wimpy wasp, what do i have to do?
i added flv extentions to musicbox_filetypes and also attachments.
what should i do next?

Can LDM be used as a radio/mp3 player? Is there such an add on? I dont mean to play one radiostation/mp3, but to play a tracklist, etc.

Thanks.:)

Andrew, can you add a upgrade paragraph to your wiki?

My apologies - I've just tested this with 2.2.7 and realise that I forgot to update it. The wasp plugin does not currently work with this release. I will post a fix as soon as possible.

There was one but it was hidden. Made visible, thanks

I've been meaning to extend the wimpy plugin to do this - it's a matter of writing some javascript - hasn't been a priority so far.

Andrew, this is truly a massive amount of work you are doing on this hack/mod

I am just getting round to using it now, have installed and will be doing the settings

Thanks for all your time on this

Version should be edited in the first post :p

It says 2.2.6 and not 2.27. :D

Thanks for the new release Andrew!

AHHH! hallpp!!

I just can't get the lightbox to work. haven't for a few versions. is there a missing file or something different? in fact, I cant' even get the original image to pop-up from the thumbnail (even with no lightbox effect).

I gotz no little magnifying glass appearing even to enlarge even.

what'd I miss? :(


(ps. just found a bug I think with auto-create thread:
1. if you upload the same image to two different uploads it creates a DOUBLE discussions thread link to both threads

2. also still have bug where doesn't "take" the order number when you add link if you have "for selected category only" selected. you have to go back and edit it to get it to take.)

hey andrew, thanks for the updates. Its been awhile since I've updated and I've changed web servers once again. (long story)

On the old server you helped me and I had manually editted the document root in the local_links_init.php file however this is no longer valid on the new server and so I left that off. However, in trying to administer the settings, I am unable to make the necessary changes. I'm trying to change to a relative local file root and remove the local file root prefix, but when I try to apply the changes I get this error message:
How can I switch back to a relative file root and remove the prefix?

ok, I was able to locate the setting in the database and remove it so that now in the administration it shows local file root is set to no and there is no local file root prefix, however I still get this message even though the directory does exist:

Not sure. Have you edited any of the LDM linkbit templates? Do you want me to take a look as admin?


I can't reproduce this one.


Did you give me all that information the first time round :) I spent quite a while trying to find the bug but it always worked for me. "for selected category only"... Indeed, there's a bug - will fix

Are you sure that you no longer need to define document_root? The new error message is saying that it thinks the directory /forum/files is really a base level directory on your server, when I think you want it to be relative to the web site.

When you change local_file_root, it's a good idea first to clear the upload_dir setting and then reset it back the way you want after the new local_file_root has been accepted. That way, the code only needs to think about one thing at once.

ok figured out that it kept resetting the local file root to yes so it kept behaving funny. Once I editted just that field to no then updated the other fields it seems to be working fine.

Hey is it possible to make it so that categorys have there own upload folder, so when a user uploads a file in a category it uploads into the folder set for it?

AndrewD, I am thinking of using the blockaccess-byposts-plugin.xml plugin - can you explain a little bit more about this change in the code:

// --- Within the last XX hours - set to 0 to require posts over all time
$LAST_HOURS = 0;

Does this set a time measurement before the new user can download new posts? And what is the maximum value it can be? Or did I totally misread this parameter?

I imagine that this is a simple change, but...

The code currently uses the upload folder to specify the *base* directory where uploads are stored. Individual uploads are placed in subdirectories according to /your/user/ids/digits (e.g. /uploaddir/1/3/2 for userid 132.

The trivial change to the code would continue to use this process but with different base directories for categories that override the default.

If you want all the files for a category in a single directory, that would be a bigger change, and in my view not a good idea.

This plugin prevents users from accessing LDM *at all* unless they have made the indicated number of posts on your main VB board in the immediately previous $LAST_POST hours.

The default setting for $LAST_HOURS=0 means that the calculation is done over all the history of your board, i.e. that number of posts *ever*. If you set LAST_HOURS to 24, then it will look at the user's posts to VB forums during the last 24 hours and so on.

Just installed the newest version Andrew and setting it up now. Thank you so much for all your hard work on this Andrew! I know we are going to be in heaven with the newest features. I'm already seeing some things that are going to really help (outside of the things you knew about!)

Here is something that we would *love* to have.

Force comment on download.

Ophelia, there is a must_comment_and_rate setting. It has the following description:


But I am guessing you don't want comments to be optional at all, huh?

Noted - all well with you?

Call me a dummy but why do I have this installed and configured properly yet when submitting a new file I only see an option to link to it and not one to upload it using the attachment system? If I have to link to an existing attached file in another post this isn't going to do me a lot of good. I'm sure I must be missing something here because someone would have surely brought this up by now.