Yes, I've got it set for the main category that holds the subboards, which on their turn should contain the autogenerated topics.

I'm trying to get the setting 'Parent Forum - Defines viewing permissions', set on the category edit page, to work as standard forum to generate automated topics for files upload to that category, rather than asking the user what forum to post it in (which is the default, and only visible to admins while I want it to work without question and for regular users as well).

Hopefully I've explained it clear enough, thanks for your time and fantastic work so far.

If you have a default_forumid set, then all new entries will, by default, be associated with that forumid. If things are working properly (!!), the autocreate will also post its thread into that forum.

The difference between admins and others (actually between users with and without *can_set_permissions* permission) is that the first group gets presented with a full forum list with the default_forumid selected whereas the rest are forced to accept it (it becomes a hidden field in the template instead of a select list). So your normal users' posts will automatically be associated with the forum you want. Admins will have to be careful not to change the forumid - and if you want, you can edit the links_addnewlink template to change that. Look for the sequence:

The problem you described is to get the threads created in a forum where these users doin't have permission?

I just read a magazine article that describes something similar - users with IE7 unable to view embedded video files in the browser.

Solution is apparently IE7/Tools/Internet Options/Security/Custom Level/enable Display video and animation on a web page that doesn't use an external player.

Haven't found this to be a problem myself, but for what it's worth...

You're indeed right, it should work like that. I've looked into the generated sourcecode for both administrators and regular users; the correct forum is in the hidden form (and selected for the admins), [S]but yet no thread is generated for any usergroup but the admins - something that is odd, considering the fact I've given both exactly the same permissions on that particular forum, I'm completely clueless.[/S]

I've found the bug; threads are only generated when the selected usergroup is able to bypass the moderation queue (can_moderate_links); when this is selected no problems occur. Sadly this option isn't much of a solution, hopefully you can come up with a solution, I'd be grateful.

OK, now I understand. When moderation is on, the thread create is (I hope!) delayed until the moderator accepts it. This was deliberate.

The solution, I think, is for you to duplicate the plugin that is tied to the ldm_addlink_inserted hook and tie it to the ldm_addlink_inserted_tomoderate hook.

Hi Andrew, again, I have a suggestion about create thread.
As you know, when a new entry is submitted, it will check the url, when the url is invalid, then I must edit it or bypass it. The problem is, in this situation, a new thread will not be auto created. So, can you add a little function that can force the entry create a new thread when I edit it?
Thank you in advance.

Sir, you're a genious ;) Doing so indeed fixed it on the first sight, you're my hero.

Little addition; combined with the two lines of '$vbulletin->bf_ugp_forumpermissions['canpostnew']' removed from the code (handling that with LDM) it's working perfectly as I want it to, thanks once again.

Addition two; one drawback has been spotted though; the creation of the thread isn't delayed until the link/file has been approved but is generated instantly. And the last addition; when a user hits 'Add entry' in a certain category but decides to pick another one before submitting, the topic is still generated in the category first chosen, again a minor issue that I've fixed by removing the forum selector but perhaps it could be fixed in a new version later on - if you plan on having one.

The final edit, a little bug report; when you choose to moderate entries in the queue, select them and choose to delete an error occurs (or at least for me); 'Fatal error: Call to undefined function delete_ldm_entry() in /home/user/html/local_links_actions.php on line 584'.

I'll note the suggestions for improvement - the logic may need rethinking in order to address these points.

As far as the bug is concerned, the call to delete_ldm_entry() should be a call to delete_link(). I'm gradually renaming all the functions to avoid clashes with other hacks - delete_ldm_entry will be the new name in due course and it somehow got included in one place in this release.

Thanks, I'll deal with this in the next release (see also the post immediately after yours).

I have upgraded to the new version 2.2.7 with the fixes. I use the german version, but when i want to save the setting, i only get a blank page.

I upgraded to the new version and now when i go to the page i get the following error:

Why's it doing this?

Well, your error lists about three quarters of the main sql statement used to extract entries from the LDM database. Is that all you are seeing? And is this happening with every attempt to use LDM?

Am happy to take a look at your site - contact me by PM if you wish.

It doesn't do that for me (german version, 2.2.7 + fixes). It sounds to me like one of the php files has only been partially uploaded. I may be wrong. Can I take a look at your site?

Excuse me for asking:

Is this some kind of gallery mod? Because it looks like a gallery to me (and I'm looking for a gallery mod now).

What is the advantages and disadvantages compared to gallery like photopost, photoplog, and vb Image Gallery?

thanks

Hi,
In http://www.eirma.org/wikis/index.php...nloads_Manager

I saw that there is a standard LDM functions: Who's Online - Shows which users are viewing LDM.

Where can i find it?

I figured it out, the version i had installed was 2.2.6 and i had installed the 2.2.7 fixes over it (thinking i had 2.2.7 already installed). It works now though with 2.2.7 installed over and plugin reimported.

The files are all completely uploaded. I checked this more than twice, but my error.log said: PHP Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 67108864 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 76 bytes) in forum/includes/functions_file.php on line 50

That is strange. Does a simple saving of a setting page needs so much memory?

Go to your forums home page and down the bottom, you see 'What's Going On'. Select the 'Currently Active Users' link immediately underneath, and you get a list of what everyone is doing. If someone is using LDM, you'll see a listing like this:

You're the second person who has reported a memory problem in the past few weeks. I wonder if there is a memory leak somewhere. It should certainly not need 67M. (The previous problem was solved by increasing from 8M to 12M).

Do you have a very large set of categories, or is there anything else unusual about your LDM database - or do you have a lot of other hacks installed?

No, i have only two categories, because we are at the beginning of installing LDM. But now i know, what was wrong. My installation was an old one. In the LDM database was an old local_file_root_prefix from my old server. On the new server this directory don't exists, but i was not able to chance it, because than the error (blank page) appears. After changing the path directly in the database, the error has gone and everything is fine.

You can certainly use this as a gallery mod, but it hasn't been tweaked for that purpose. I don't use the photo hacks you mention - they may well have photo-friendly features that this one does not. The virtue of LDM is that it is very configurable and you can use the one hack for all different types of upload/download - so you could combine a photo library with a music library.

Ok.

I thought that there is an option to see Who's Online in LDM page.

I think it might be very useful.

Hi Andrew.. found a possible bug, not sure if it's been mentioned.

I hope I can explain okay.

I go into the main permissions of the download manager and set up the permissions. For can_access_link I set it so that everyone but COPPA can access links.

I then go into a category and edit it's user group permissions. I don't do anything different with can_access_link, but I do change other things in this area.

Now when I go into either the main permissions or back into that categories usergroup permissions, the can_access_link states that it's been customised (US spelling of this word by the way is customized) in this category and are highlighted yellow, but it hasn't. When you compare, both are set up so that the only one who can't access is COPPA. It's doing this on several different fields:

can_see_protected_links_on_portal
can_rate_link
can_mark_link
can_report_link
can_send_tofriend
can_view_hits
can_view_names

None of these were altered in any way and are the exact same when compared to the main permissions.

I'm also very interested in custom fields, waiting for 2.2.8

Thanks, Ophelia. I've half suspected that this bug existed in the customisation logic for some time, but have not been able to prove it one way or another. Now you give me an incentive to look more carefully.

Edited - bug confirmed. Will fix, provided you accept that the spelling of customised is customised :)

I've tried the .module files you kindly provided, but for some reason they don't appear even though they are active, and I have some categories and test files uploaded :S

Can you tell me what I'm doing wrong? I'm using vb 3.6.5 and vbadvanced 2.2.1

I can take a look if you like - it isn't easy to suggest a solution otherwise. Send me a PM if you wish.

Hi,
my web server only supports to upload files up to 8MB, How can I upload larger files?
How can I create local file downloads?
I uploaded the files to /mnt/jd2/05/985/00000000/htdocs/new/upload/ana_lpz

My settings for:

upload_dir:
/mnt/jd2/05/985/00000000/htdocs/new/upload

When I set

local_file_root : yes
local_file_root_prefix: upload

I get an error that the links are temporaly not available...

please help me....

Thx

LDM's 'upload' feature can only work within the limits set by your web server. So, if you want to use it to handle the uploads, then you have to get the web server configured to accept larger files. Beware that this is not always reliable.

If your server is running Apache, then the parameters are:
* upload_max_filesize
* post_max_size
Check that post_max_size has a larger value than upload_max_filesize.

If you can't get these parameters changed, then large file uploads have to be handled using (e.g.) an FTP client, and this is separate from LDM.


Your combination of local_file_root and local_file_root_prefix are telling LDM that all the files it will handle will be stored in the directory tree /upload.

I assume that you manually uploaded the file to /mnt/jd2/05/985/00000000/htdocs/new/upload/ana_lpz? This not part of the directory structure.

Also, your setting for upload_dir means that LDM will place uploads in subdirectories of /upload/mnt/jd2/05/985/00000000/htdocs/new/upload


I suggest you set:

local_file_root : yes
local_file_root_prefix: /mnt/jd2/05/985/00000000/htdocs/new/
upload_dir: upload

and start again

Please keep an eye on the second post in this thread for details on known bugs.

Currently, these bugs have been confirmed in 2.2.7 (and probably existed in 2.2.6 also):
- Wimpy WASP player doesn't work
- There is a problem with icon display with some vbadvanced modules when the vbadvanced cmps_index file is not in the forum directory
- There is a problem with extra category setting/permission configurations erroneously being reported when you edit a category after previously adjusting some of its control settings/permissions

Hello

Is there an option to group the vbavanced modules, so I can show the hot, new and stats in one module?

Not currently.

Next you're going to tell me that I have to accept "colour" as well! ;)

Here is something that driving me kinda bonkers. Okay two things.

When you have forced accept turned on, and you go to the local_links.php, it resizes your window, like it would on a popup. It does this both in Firefox and IE. Can that be changed?

Last thing.

In the area where you assign the time....

How to explain this.

I am in the CST. Our server is in the CST. We have daylight savings time.

When everything is set correctly, the time stamp on everything says -5. The good folks over at vb.com explained this (http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/showp...&postcount=11)... I'm taking their word for it at this point.

Okay... so right now, if you go into the download manager to assign a time, it shows the correct current time, but after it, it's reading the "false" -5 and stating "(GMT -5:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada), Bogota, Lima " but this isn't true. It's showing CST with daylight savings time applied to it.

How can this be made to be less confusing for folks?

Just so - Last week, I spoke at an international meeting concerned with the mobility of scientists between countries. Several delegates, the US included, mentioned the problem of poor education systems. Just as I thought - if u cannt spel korectcly, hwo kan u hope to suckseed?

I hadn't noticed that, but I always have my browser maximised. Will take a look.

Yes, I spotted this as well. Geographical space warp when summer time begins. I think this is corrected with the 'fixes' file at the start of this thread. Perhaps you can give that a try.

Hi Andrew, I have a problem with the vba_module "ldm_new_thumb.module".
I installed it and it worked great at first. But some days late... now I have problem with it.
I set it display 8 entries and 4 thubs per row. But it only display 6 entries (for 1 day ago, it display 7 entries). I'm sure there are enough enties to display and every entry has thumbnail.

Edit the links_agreement and the links_agreement_declined templates. In each case, find this sequence:

and delete it.

I must have put that there for a reason - I can't recall why now.

thanks for the update.

Does anyone know how to create a VBadvanced module, so that it'll show the latest video from a category (ready to play)?

Andrew, after upgrading, my vbadvanced modules do not work. What do I have to do to get them working again?

Maybe I can answer your question.

The new vba_modules are not same like the old php format modules. You should install the module per "download/upload module" but not "add module". And before you upload the new one, you should delete the old php format module files first, or the system can't creat the new one.

Thanks. That's great info. Can this be added to the wiki?

Edit: If I want multiple modules in there, do I need to add the same module several times?

The ldm_new.module doesn't show pdf icons anymore.