Hai andrew,

this is the image causing the problem
http://img25.imageshack.us/img25/222...pissuposoa.jpg

can you pls login to our site and try to upload this image in the catogary ill pm ?
ill also pm you a moderator account.

Hope you will help to solve this issue :)

I have a suspicion that the problem is caused by running out of memory when creating the thumbnail.

For some reason that I do not understand, even though your file is less that 1Mb in size, the php function that converts it to a thumbnail grabs 39Mb in order to do the job. If your php installation sets a lower value of memory_limit than this (check vb/admincp/php info, then your php.ini file), LDM fails with a blank screen. You are the first person to discover this problem in 5 years, I think:)

On my test system, everything works fine with your image (which is beautiful, by the way) when memory_limit is set to 40Mb and higher. I would recommend a value of 64Mb or more.

Let me know if this solves the problem.

Andrew, this mod works great and thanks again for the help a while back.

I do have two questions.

Is there a way to set permissions to only one file and not all of them? I'd like to force you to register to get only one file but leave the others up for whoever for example.

Otherwise if not where can I edit the error message when someone goes to download something and I've got those groups set not to be able to download anything beyond 0kb? I'd like to edit that message to say that they need to join the site/forums to be able to get unlimited downloads etc...

Thanks

Hmm... anyone has an idea on how to add multiple entries to LDM, i want to upload a series of images, and i'l lazy to add one by one, since it is the same data, only the file changes :p

I used to do this using CVS files, but i can't make XML work, I tried making a XML file like:

When it is supposed to read the link, i get error while importing the file, and i just saw there is no category attached directly to the linkid, so it seems i'd have to add also something related to "linkcats" and "ltoc" :(

Either way, do you know an easy way to add multiple entries? :D

Still running 2.2.9
thanks!

1) This is done using the 'associated forum' mechanism built into LDM. You need either to create/choose an existing forum which has the required user group permissions. You then edit the entry which you want to be restricted, and you set its associated forum to that forum. Then, your users have to be members of one of the usergroups which has access to the forum in order to download the file.

2) This message comes from the phrase <<ll_error_allowances>>. Go to vb/admincp/languages and phrases and find/edit that phrase

Indeed, your xml file needs to contain at least the linkcats, links and ltoc sections. I attach a sample file which will create a new category called Videos 2 with a set of entries.

Note the catid, linkid and ltocid values that you give can have arbitrary values, just as long as you are consistent.

Code reuploaded: see this post.

I am pleased to provide a new version of LDM for testing and your reaction. This is nominally the release candidate code for version 2.3.0, and should work fully with VB 3.7 and 3.8. These are the main changes since the 2.3.0 beta.

+ Additional attributes
Attribute group names starting with * are replaced by the corresponding vb phrase when displayed on user pages

+ Admin/Hits
Added option to sort hit records in ascending and descending order

+ Admin/Import and Export
Added option to use import xml to update names/descriptions of existing entries
Removed csv export option

+ Caching
Infrastructure added to support caching of display bits
Caching enabled for vba modules; base category bit; hit parades; and explorer, tagcloud 'extras'

+ Mass Edits
Included submitting username in mass edit linkbit
Added option to mass edit all enties by given user

+ vbAdvanced modules
Modified templates to display short entry names and correct pagenavs and avoid unwanted plain borders

+ File uploads
Reworked logic to use a) vb attachments/permissions, then b) ldm upload_filetypes (if set) otherwise vb attachments/enabled
to determine which filetypes users can uploads

+ Extras
Add_mimetypes: Added tif file extension
ID3 enhancements: Fixed admin scan
JWplayer: Added option to insert linkbit image above media player for mp3 files
Enabled JW inline player for media attributes
Updated getid3 library to version 1.7.9
Updated JW player to version 4.4
Shadowbox: Fixed parameter settings and execution order
Updated SWFUploader to version 2.2.0 (works with Flash 10)
Updated Wimpy players to latest versions (works with Flash 10) (NB: requires new licence and registration code)

+ Bug fixes
Fixed admin/debug page so as to work correctly with IE.
Fixed sql error when editing comments that contain quotation marks
Fixed category handling bugs when category names are not unique
Fixed Ajax keyword suggestions
Fixed RealPlayer template to remove stuttering on startup
Fixed human verification settings for VB3.8
Fixed highlighting of favourites/nominations in base category
Fixed parentage of subcategories when changing category's parent
Fixed bug when handling corrupt catagory parentage
Fixed blank screen bug when image display code runs out of memory
Refixed bugs when *cat_desc_popup* is set ;)
Restored facility to play/download files after vb admin disables filetype

+ Translations
Directory structure changed (phrases and product translations moved) to reduce size of main release file

Please treat this with care - I have tried to test as much as possible, but it is no longer possible to test everything.

Hi andrew

thanks very good job ! Installed.

In vbadvanced :

LDM_cats.php : The display isn't good if I do 2 columns

Is it possible please to have more caracters displays for the title of the entree in ldm_new.php ?

Feature request for ldm_new_cats.php : the option "Include page navigator" and "Comma-separated list of category ids to search. Leave blank to search all categories"

Wimpy button :

I have put the licence in the admincp ldm but there is write demo when I play an audio...

And how to use wimp player and wimpy wasp ? (I have put the licence in the wasp.js).

It will be good if JW player is active for the library, we can choose to use wimply player in vbadvanced for some module that we want (when the module is in the right of the left, wimpy player can works very good because he is small). But if the module is in the center, we use jw player.

thanks very mush

The module that I would like we can use only in vbadvanced (with wimpy bouton) when the jw player is active are :

ldm_hot.php, ldm_random.php and ldm_new.php

For the oder modules and in the library it's jw player who works

thanks

OH! It seems i was missimg some code :eek:

Thank you Andrewm i'll test it, and thanks for releasin 2.3.0 RC
Will take a look at the spanish translation. :D

Andrew, thank you for the update. Here is the updated chinese translation.

My mistake, will fix. (Getting the templates to work properly for single and multicolumn display has been a real pain...)

This is supposed to be controlled by the LDM admin setting *length_shortname*. Unfortunately, I make a mistake in the RC code, and it is actually controlled by *length_shortdesc* at the moment.

Will implement

a) Have you cleared the browser cache? Does you site have the right url for the wimpy button registration code? (If you register the licence for sitename.fr, then it will work on all sites xxx.sitename.fr) Is the registration code for this version of the wimpy button?

Installing the registration code works fine for me.

b) Have you read the instructions in the extras/wimpy directory? You edit wimpy.js or wasp.js to include the registation code, and install the plugin in the normal way.

I think you are asking me to do a little too much work:).

I am very sorry. I like your product but it's just simple suggestions if you want.

For wimpy, I will see more.

The product works very good for me in 3.8.2.

Thanks.

Thanks for the update Andrew, especially VBA/ displaybits caching.... now LDM pages should load efficiently.

Yes, Thank you for the update Andrew. Much appreciated.

_V

This turned out to be easier than I expected. There will be a new 'extra' (vba-media) in the next upload which allows you to control which columns the JWplayer and Wimpy Button media players are active, along with fixes to the vba templates.

Thanks very mush for your works.

there is a little bug with the moidule ldm_cats.php in internet explorer :

http://www.monsterup.com/upload/1240488149986.jpg

Andrew, i've not upgraded to this RC yet, i will later tonight, on upgrade will all my previous settings etc still be in place?

Also, i have to say what a huge amount of work you have gone to, i just checked out all those extras that you have worked on - simply fantastic! :)

oh great ;)

btw, ill check the information you gave and reply you asap
Thank you andrewD for the kind corporation :)

Thanks the rc2 works very good.

I will contact "wimpy" because I don't understand why it's write "buy" and I have the licence for wimpy buton 4.0

On upgrade, most settings (and all internal LDM settings) stay intact and transfer over directly. You need to be careful with the following:

- installed extras are automatically uninstalled by vbulletin during a product upgrade, so you need to reinstall them. Their settings are kept intact, however.

- on the other hand, vbadvanced modules remain installed, and may not work properly after the upgrade, so need to be reinstalled because of the improvements made for 2.3.0

Your comments on the extras are appreciated. As you say, people have looked for a lot of special features over the years. The interesting point (apart from the functions that these add) has been to develop an infrastructure which does not get broken and does not require too much 'jumping through hoops' to get the job done. The awkward beasts tend to be some of the media players.

The wimpy button works now.

I woul'd like to do a playlist with jw player, how can I do that please ?

I have add xml as a filetype and mimetype to the VB attachments table

What is the code that I must to put in the file .xml please ?

thanks.

Thanks very mush.

But sorry, what I must do with the file links_playerbit_JWPlayer ?

I have imported it but there is an error :

Error XML : Mismatched tag in the line 7.

thanks

Perhaps I should not have given it an xml extension. The file just contains the template. Open the file with a text editor and copy/paste it as the links_playerbit_JWPlayer template (admin cp/styles and templates)

Again my visitors are getting database error messages when trying to access LDM pages. I'm convinced this has something to do with LDM because it almost invariably gives error-messages on access to LDM pages. Here is an example:

MySQL error 28 means "No space left on device". I.e. your server has a close-to-full disk, or something similar.

I have changed the template but now, it's write "install flash player". Flash player is correctly installed.

Send me a PM with your site details and an account with vb admin privs. Otherwise we're going to spend forever on this.

Sorry if this has been posted already, but the umlauts in the german translation don´t work and should be replaced with their respective HTML codes. I.e. ä = &auml; Ü = &Uuml; and so on.
I have done this. Please find the updated file attached.

welcome back andrew :)

Thanks for this.

I think the problem is to do with utf8 and latin1 character encodings, and we keep getting different messages from German sites as to the preferred approach.

As far as I understand (I may be wrong), the released translation displays correctly when the board's database tables are utf8 and the vb language HTML character set is also set to utf8. However, if the tables are latin 1 or the vb language HTML character set is to ISO-8859-1, then one needs to spell out the umlauts, etc, using the latin-1 escapes. Spelling them out will always work (including with a full utf8 board), so it may be the best approach. I'd welcome other people's comments.

It's nice to be here :)

thanks very mush for your job. It works very good now.

as usual, I have suggestion... But if it's a lot of works, you can ignore it please.

When wimpy butons is active, we can open the audio in the jukebox when we visit the entree with clic in the link (because in the lecteur we have the option for do back and advance...).

We can have the playlist with wimpy as jw player.

Take your time, I know the priority now, it's to the version 2.3 of LDM.

Thanks very mush.

Thanks. I take note, but as you say, the priority is to finish version 2.3.0.

1) You can do this quite easily yourself (if you feel adventurous). Edit (vb admincp) the plugin "Links and Downloads Manager - Use Wimpy Button to play mp3 media" which is attached to the "ldm_linkbit_create" hook. Find the line which reads
and put two // at the front of the line, i.e.
2) Be aware that Wimpy's playlists do not use the same format as JWPlayer.

okay thanks, I will do that.

I have a little problem. Wasp doesn't works for me. I don't understand why it's write : Extra; currently not installed, but I have imported the plugin wimpyplayer-flash-plugin.

Can you help me please ?

Regarding the ldm_forumstats plugin: I would like to show how many GB of files I have in my file archive. How can I add this? Could you add this function to a forthcoming release?

Does anyone know how to add 'files to moderate' and 'comments to moderate' to the vbulletin notifications menu?

I am using some categories as main categories(similar to forum categories, which hold only forums, no threads). The only solution for this that I have found, is close a category. Unfortunately, that will show a message: 'This category is closed for posting'. My members conclude that all children are closed as well and stop uploading to the category. Is there a better solution?
Could you please add a function to have main categories?

Fixed and tested on your site.

It works very good now. Thanks.