tell me what to do plz.

1. I have a custom style and I want the comment messaging style to not be the vBulletin one, but to match my style.

2. I want it so to authors show up as top contributors and not top uploaders.

I am pretty new with vbulletin editing so I am not 100% following what you mean. If you could explain in more detail I would be greatly appreciative.

Like Jelle has said already, you need to create a file named .htaccess (not the period in front of the name). Put the following two lines into the file:

Upload the file into your forum directory (the same location where downloads.php is located.)

This will increase the size of the file you can upload to 30MB.

if i create a new file (xxxx.txt) and try to rename it to .htaccess,
it say "pls insert a name"

how to create a .htaccess

Your service provider may have your access restricted where you cannot create hidden files (that's what the period in front of the name does, assuming your host is running some version of unix).

Normally, files are renamed to add the period at the beginning either via direct command line access or via the renaming feature of your ftp program. If you don't know how to do either of those, your best bet is to contact your host and ask them to create the file with the information we told you to put in it.

now i understand ;)
its done and i try to upload now

error again :(

I"m sorry but you need to provide a lot more info (what is the error, what were you trying to do, what program were you using, etc) before we can try to help.

Adding or modifying a .htaccess file isn't really part of this mod but we understand the need for it. If you can't get it to work, you really need to ask your host for assistance.

when i create a .htcaccse in my forum root directory,
i cant start the forum

That means you have an error in the file.

At this point, you really need to either read up on creating the file (google "creating a .htaccess file") or have your host help you create the file. I'm afraid there's not much else we can do unless you want to PM me your site info along with an admin ftp login and password.

i get the error message ... in german :)

Nebu, did you chmod your downloads-directory and sub-directories to 755?

Is his account the only one in that usergroup? Or not? :D

there is one more account in this usergroup. I tried to delete it and recreated it but still occurs. seems like this problem is username associated. even today where no upload/download had happened, maximum limit message keep repeated. Also the other account in this usergroup has no problem whatsoever.

FYI using the url link works fine and I'm not getting the max limit reach message

Is he a member of an additional usergroup that has a limit?

If no, PM me your url along with an admin account and password plus the user's name and I'll check it out.

no, its 777

What I said above is really my last word on this. We've told you exactly what to do.

If you need more help, either ask your host or PM me the info I requested above and I'll help you.

Hello bro
Great!
it works perfectly but
when i tried to download any file i get this msg

Warning: copy() has been disabled for security reasons in /downloads.php on line 690
ERROR: File not found.

any help?

pn: SAFE MODE ON

You'll need to have your host enable copy. There's no other way for the program to work. That's way overly restrictive security.

UPDATE: THIS IS SOLVED - I logged out and logged back in

Hello,

I just installed this wonderful hack.

Everything is smooth..so far, but when I got stuck at this point
There's no Downloads directory in my AdminCP. I have copied all files in "Uploads" and imported the product. What's missing?

I get this error on 3.6.7 PL1 when importing the product

No phrasetypeid!

Any help here please??

A question to you all: are you using the Stats feature (downloads.php?do=stats) of DownloadsII? Should we keep it or remove it? Would it be better to integrate it in the AdminCP instead of the public pages? If you use it, why and how do you use it (what purpose etc.)? And what new features would you like in it if we have to keep it?

I don't use it much and I believe in adding it in the admin cp would be better. I use it to give my an overview of how much my members are downloading.

You could add it as a sub menu under the download information log. It would be nice in the admin cp that the download section with all the states be developed more. At the moment its great to see how many times someone downloads a file on which day but more information would be interesting e.g. a time.

At the moment I get some members which download the file 4 times in a row. If I new the time in-between those downloads I could see if they are just a bunch of lechers. So if I see it’s a couple of minute’s interval between each download I can assume he’s just had problems downloading. If he downloads every hour then it’s possible he’s a bot sucking my bandwich.

Anyways to make it simple, a time section in the log would be most welcome. The states page should be added to the admincp because its not peoples problem about how much people are downloading, only admins need to worry about that in my opinion.

I hope it helps ;)

when i upload a file to the board then add images of something to the upload i just made all the pics are strait down the page not next to each other..
someone know what i might need to edit to fix this problem

Can this modication, search your current vBulletin attachments and add them?

how to display order category?

Thanks for the feedback. Your suggestions were already incorporated in the next release: the downloads log is now also displaying the download time and ip address (and when you click on it, it does an ip lookup using the vBulletin ip system). You can find a screenshot of it here.

Any other people with information about how they use the Stats feature (or the fact that they aren't using it)? And what you want as a new feature in it?

Have a look at this post. Someone already asked this and I coded it for him, so you just need to upload the attached downloads.php file instead of your current one.

No, it has nothing to do with the vBulletin attachments at the moment. It's a separate downloads database.

When you are viewing a category, there's a "Sort Files" dropdown menu at the bottom of the page. You can also click on the header names for sorting.

Hi
I hope someone can help with this.

I have changed the layout in the downloads.php file to use the downloads_panel_top template. I also wanted to have the standard vBulletin category row across the top of the panel which includes the standard collapse button so the dpanel of latest files, popular files and top contributors could be collapsed.

This is my downloads_panel_top template which includes my changes but I can't seem to get the collapse button to work - any help is greatly appreciated!

Few questions apologies if they have been answered previously, but at over 100 pages, it's a little time consuming to determine.

1) In this screen shot :
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/attachmen...9&d=1154030030

It shows an image in the left hand column , I was hoping to insert e-book covers into that column, but when I'm adding a new download I just can't see the field where you link to or upload the image you want to see in that download column.

2- Right now it seems to only allow you to upload compressed files, can it be set to allow PDf files?

3- When I use the "link to " method, it allows PDF ofc, but opens them up in Adobe rather than allowing the user to save to their chosen destination, any way around this ?

Thank you.

Have a look at this tutorial about collapsable boxes in vBulletin. It's explaining it in full detail :)

1. After you added a file, you can upload additional images using the upload form underneath the file description. There's also a usergroup permission to control this image uploading.
2. You can choose the file extensions you want to allow using the DownloadsII settings in the AdminCP.
3. You can force the download window for the file extensions you want using the DownloadsII settings in the AdminCP.

OK, we were talking slightly at cross purposes. The image I linked to above in my post shows an image for the catagories, which can be controlled in admin cp under this option:

Image
This is the image used for this category. Enter the complete url, eg http://www.mysite.com/images/myimage.gif. (Optional, max length of 250 characters)

However what I am trying to achieve is to be able to add an image next to each of the downloads themsleves, not the catagories section.

For example I wish to use the mod to download ebooks and next to each ebook I would like to put the cover of the ebook there, however there does not seem to be anyway to add an image to represent the download, only add images for catagories.

2) Got it, thx.

3) Works a treat thanks. I didn't even suss it had an admincp end was still farting around with the menu options available from the mod ..

So (2) and (3) resolved, (1) I am still unable to achieve.

I've just PM'd you a link to the image I'm trying to change rather than try to explain it, it's on a (currently) private site.

Cheers.

My answer was correct for 1, reread it carefully :D
And have a look at the right bottom of this screenshot for a visual explanation.

Btw: if you click the install button in the first post, you will receive update notifications of this mod.

Hi

I appreciate what your saying , I understood entirely what your saying I believe but again we are talking about different pages.

The page your showing in your screen shot is not the page I'm trying to add the image to, that's the page you end up on once you click the download you want after choosing the catagory .

The page I am trying to add , aww screw it let me do a screen shot.

Although in addition I can't see how your adding images to the page your talking about either. Once I upload the PDF using the "upload or link to a file" option, if I then use the upload a file option to try and add an image, it seems to upload fine but no image appears.

If i change the file name in the file name field to the name of the image I want to upload for that download then it simply overwrites the PDF that I want to be downloaded which is kinda what you would expect.

Not sure what I'm doing wrong frankly, I only see 1 upload file option so not entirely sure where the confusion is coming from.

Perhaps I have permissions set up wrong or something could you do a screen shot of the option your using to upload an image to accompany the actual downloaded file which in this case is a PDF.

Ahh ok, I see the problem, sorry looking at your screen shot here :

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/attachmen...0&d=1154030030

On your view you have a section for adding images below the filename.

On mine, that option does not exist. Hence the confusion, I was beginning to think I was going mad.

I'll attach a screen shot of what I see.

Do I need to turn that option on somwhere?

EDIT _ : I've found the problem, it was simply an option in ADMINCP

"Allow users with permission to view and post images."

That was all it was, problem solved, it was off as default so I didn't see the upload image box your talking about, hence the confusion.

ADDED: Big thanks for your patience :P Great Support

Okay, let's go over it a bit slower :p

AdminCP -> Usergroups -> Usergroup Manager -> Edit the usergroup you want (Administrators for your own account normally) -> DownloadsII Permissions -> Can Upload Images -> Yes -> Update

Now will you get the "upload an image" posssibility AFTER you added the file (the PDF in your case). The "upload an image" possibility is on the file page of it you get AFTER you clicked the Add-button for adding a file. It's located underneath the description like you see on this screenshot.

The image(s) you upload, will be shown underneath that description on the file page AND will be used as a thumb for the category view (this last thing is what you want, but this is not a separate upload thing, it's just using the standard images uploaded to a file AFTER you added it).

I hope that's enough information :D

Yeah, sussed all that now, it was just the upload images option in admincp that was the problem. That was the missing piece of info that turned a molehill into a mountain.

Cheers for your patience anyway.

Ah, sorry. I forgot about that setting :)

would love to see this happen :
Vastly enhanced permissions by usergroup and category
Multiple files per entry

thanks for this addon