You can set the featured_all_categories setting off so that featured sites are drawn from the favourites in the current category. This enables you to have featured sites in some categories and not others, provided the entries are members of those catgeories. If you want to be able to draw a random collection of featured sites from all categories but only display them in some, then I will have to make a small change (I think it involves literally adding two characters to the code...) to make this possible.

Hrm. I installed this but its too much for my needs. Great hack overall but for just a links page (what I need) its overkill.

Just to show that there's nothing better to do on an airplane than think about coding...

small bug, fixed on my laptop

small bug, fixed on my laptop

Easy fix, with one provisio - if the entry is placed into more than one category, then the link will always take the user to one of these categories, which I don't think is an issue.

Bear in mind that if you subsequently delete the entry, then the thread and url will still be there and will not work. I can't do anything about that.


I've changed it to give a different message, along the lines of 'your entry has been accepted and posted into forum XXX'

By the way, I realised that no autopost should be made if moderation is turned on - that situation needs a little more thought - possibly the autocreate should happen when the moderator accepts the post.


That looks like someone's avatar is broken/wrong

Am adding a template choice in the settings for featured sites and well as standard entries. Both should be selectable.

This is only a problem if you use category selection boxes rather than the menu. It's fixed on my laptop.

This is built into VBUlletin abd I can't change it without duplicating a chunck of their code. Is it a big issue?

That's what I thought, but people kep asking for more, more, more

Really if you still have a very first version that doesn't have all the extra stuff, that would be great! I'm administering a site for my friends sorority and I just need a page people can post the links to their chapters to and everybody else can see.

This sounds like a job for my "Thread as Link" Andrew! Get to it! :banana:

The *very* first versions were for VB 3.0, but the early versions for VB 3.5 should still be ok.

thanks so much! i'll handle the rest with template modifications. you are the greatest. :)

spoke too soon. *sigh* still too much going on, unfortunately. i'll keep looking for something, thanks for your help though.

Ya know, if you edit the add link template, and set the settings to allow null fields, you very well might have what you're looking for.

princess its pretty easy to use this hack for just the links, and it works great for user submitted links. I don't think you'll find anything to surpass this. If its too much just don't use the other parts. (just set permissions and the link style you want to use once and you won't have to touch it again)

Thanks for your help, it would appear checking through php info that cURL is installed in PHP - so can only presume it's a rogue one - as long as I know I can anticipate any more issues like this :)

For the record, I didn't even realise it checked links - smart job!!

Jason

I'm so sad... Story of my life

This is a cool one..I guess, we need to move to VBulletin from IPB ;)
Installed on a test server and testing more.

Good work!
-- deep

set the wha to do wha? lol, kidding. after looking around i may have to do that, just not right now. must prepare for new job. :)you're still the greatest, don't worry. :)

I guess great minds think alike. :)

Missed that. thanks

okay so this won't integrate with my vbadvance board? i have to leave it on vbulletin type boarding?

there's vbadvanced modules included in the install.

that's not what i am asking.... i have them installed just fine....its the board integration that i want

It will integrate just fine. There are no side effects with vbadvanced as far as I know.

hmmmm cuz i can't seem to get it to work as i want lol....if imake it a php file page i am okay. i think i must be stupid lol.... but i wanted to have the side modules on the page....won't work for me that way. not the only thing i have a problem with....maybe its the way i am doing it?

Sorry, I'm not an expert in setting up vbadvanced. Maybe someone else can help?

lol i am not an expert either....obviously....well thanks for trying.

2.1.6 RC 1 and 2.

I had several reports that some links to PDF files no longer work correctly. When the user clicks on the link, their PDF reader opens, but the file is never downloaded to them. I verified this, and it has happened to me as well. The PDF files in question can however be downloaded directly.

OK, will investigate. Adobe Reader is a bit of a pig and I've had similar problems myself over the years.

Lon, I tried to check this on your site, but you seem to have all documents locked down to subscribers only - am not prepared to pay for the privilege of bug fixing so could you help, please - I registered as andrewd

What's the problem? What are you trying to do? I code a little with vBA, not much though, maybe I can help.

Third reply - I know what the problem is - Adobe is too clever in asking for bits of a file, and its breaking the new 'Partial Response' feature in LDM. I'll have a fix soon. In the meantime, tell your users that they can always do the download correctly with a right click/save as

I upgraded your account.

Great, thanks, I tested that as well, and it worked for me.

Attached zip should fix the reported bugs with 2.1.6RC2.

Administration
featured_linkbit setting added to enable choice of linkbit used in featured sites
Bugs fixed
category selection menu expand/collapse only shown with menu, not checkboxes
htmlspecialchars to protect quotes in links titles
profile hits list parses bbcodes
autocreate plugin creates thread url which still works ok after category move
autocreate plugin tells user that thread has been created
fix to stop Adobe Acrobat breaking with partial content requests

Those testing the autocreate forum plugin - please note that you will need to remove the existing plugin manually and reinstall it.

Grateful for a quick check on these problems.

i want the side modules on the page when you upload but i can't get that.

nm the updated zip fixed it.

thank goodness for bad inflight movies. :) lol ;)
<< runs off to install fixes. THANKS!~!! I'll let ya know how it goes. :)


btw... anyone know what to do with this...?

I need to think some more about this. It really needs a new module in LDM to allow the admin to set some style vars for LDM - like in the VB styles and templates editor. But I haven't really got the time to write one.

I was reading one of your earlier posts about upgrading and having to redo some stuff to your present install (I don't recall what it was off hand) I'm using v2.1.3b1, or b2. I want to upgrade to the 2.1.6r2 but wanted to make sure of what I do beforehand. So far, I have about 2000 downloads which I've had to manually add, descriptions as well, 3 times. All due to host providers though.

Basically, I just overwrite my present install with whats in the 2.1.6r2 zip and then import the xml product, selecting overwrite? Does this sound right?

BTW, hows the "credit system" for LDM coming along?

That's right - you won't lose anything. It's always a good idea to take a backup of your database before doing any upgrade.

If people have installed some of the optional extras, which are provided as extra plugins, then these need to be deleted and reinstalled, but this probably doesn't apply to you.

The 'hooks' are there, but it isn't one of my priorities to write the interface to a points management system.

Ehrm guys, where the hell is 6rc2 ? :D

Exactly where the link in the first post tells you to look.

Database error in vBulletin 3.5.4:

Invalid SQL:
;

MySQL Error : Query was empty
Error Number : 1065
Date : Friday, March 31st 2006 @ 05:48:52 AM
Script : http://www.bbdsms.com/forums/local_links.php
Referrer :
IP Address : Xx.XXX.XXX.XXX
Username : XXXXXXXXXX
Classname : vb_database

Is what I get when I go th the local_links.php page. Its probablly something I did. I uninstalled and reinstalled several times to no avail. Hints?

First time I've seen this! TO ask the obvious, did you run the product installation process or just upload code?

I ran the product installation process. On the last few installs I've followed, carefully, the install instructions as laid out on http://www.eirma.org/devel/LDM/index.html?title.html&0. I also have ran the local_links_kill.php to delete the db tables and then did several complete reinstalls.

Your suggestion of completly removing the files, downloading a new zip and reinstalling from scratch worked. Thanks for your time and effort with this issue.