when the "Multiple files per entry" will be released?

Now I really don't understand the problem. So let's recapitulate ...
Did the category "suddenly disappear" or did you delete it yourself as you are saying also:
If you delete categories, files should really be deleted also (if you don't choose to move them to another category). I just tested it to be sure, and it really works correctly.

If you deleted the category yourself (and didn't move the files, but choosed to delete them) and you say there are files of that category still present, please give me a concrete url of such a file on your site.

Try restarting the Apache webserver after doing such edits. That's why the .htaccess way is a bit easier (create a file with that name, put the content I mentioned before into the file and upload it using FTP to your vBulletin forums directory).

I don't know the vBSEO rules, so I don't know if there are any errors in them or so. Try removing them all and check if it works again. If it does, those url rewrite rules need to be wrong in some way.

Q1: Did you do the chmod with the other FTP-program? If you didn't set the 777 permissions for the downloads directory, uploading won't work (as PHP can't move any files to the directory without having the permission to do it). Are there any notices on the top/bottom of the downloads section (normally the software gives you a notice if there's something wrong with the directory and/or its chmod)?

Q2: If you are using vBadvanced CMPS for your homepage, you can use the DownloadsII ver 5.0 vbAdvanced Add-On to do this. There's also a vBPortal block avaiable at phpportals.com.
If it's a custom coded frontpage, you can check the vBadvanced add-on PHP code if you are a bit familiar with PHP. It's pretty easy to recode.

Have a look at this post, the answer to TB Poparts quote. It's a PHP limit that you need to change by changing php.ini or by uploading a .htaccess file like I described in that post.

Try reuploading all files if there's no Downloads category in the AdminCP (like this). You probably missed uploading /includes/xml/cpnav_ecdownloads.xml, which is putting DownloadsII in the AdminCP navigation.

I'm sorry, but we don't have an ETA for future features.

Hey, I this mod was perfect for a project that I'm doing. This is my first vBulletin project, so it would have taken me forever to figure out how to do something not nearly as elegant as this. I've coded with Invision before in the past and I often build Drupal based sites for clients. I'm very impressed by the user community around vBulletin. The volume of quality stuff being put out is impressive.

I just have a question about the credits in the footer. I need to have a branding free footer for the client I'm building this site for. Can that be arranged? CyberRanger + Jelle, I'd be happy to pay you guys something to let me go branding free and/or I could arrange to cite the credits in a creative way, like mentioning that you guys + Ronin did the downloads part in my site portfolio.

actually my upload size limit is already 600 mb and i sitll get blank page when i import 150 mb files, i cant even import 10 files and stil lget blank page :/

no the thign is no one deleted the category, but still the category just vanished, but i notice some user downloaded files inside that vanished category... so its still somewhere thats why i want u to check it to confirm it so please?

also ERROR no file found sometimes my user get this, but they are able to download after few more attempts ? a possible bug?

can you please visit my site and try importng and so you can confirm that u get blankpage aswell even if the upload size is on 600 mb ???

Removing the copyright isn't possible, as the "Based on ..." is necessary for the license. It's based on ecDownloads (created by Ron1n who quitted vB.org) and the ecDownloads license requires attribution ...

Q1: Try upping your PHP memory limit also.

Q2: Can you provide me the link of such a file in the disappeared category?

i raised the php memory to 500mb but i still failed to import 5 files

/forum/downloads.php?do=file&id=1126


this is what i have in my htaccess

php_value upload_max_filesize 600M
php_value post_max_size 600M
php_value max_execution_time 600
php_value max_input_time 100


and can you please see about the issue error files not found, since it works fine after few attempts
there are 2 error showing up, error file down and error file not found, but like i said it works if ppl try it some more times, i think theres oissue with download delay aswell, if im at the download page and right click and go to new tabs, I opened a new page within the download time limit thing and it will telll me to slow down even if i ddidnt download anything


also regarding about the download delay it seems when one guest download the second guest ahve to wait x seconds because the first user downloaded already....

so if i have file striction will it be the same aswell, if one member download one file of 50 files the second member can only download 49 files left???

Just putting my support in for Version 6! Can't wait for the next version!

Also, how can I let users sort by Rating? Ratings over all the files and in a certain category.

The most important for my in a nest version
is to be able to choose that you cut they can download files for groups.

I want the registered users to download files but not of all the categories,
the same thing with the invited users, I want them to download files of some categories.

I would love that detail with the permits for groups and categories.

Kind Regards!

I'd like to extend my appreciation and thanks to RS_Jelle for all the work he's done with DownloadsII. Because of my real life time constraints and in recognition of Jelle's work, I've requested that vb.org make Jelle the "owner" of DownloadsII.

That process is now complete! He is the man! I'll continue in role of co-author, helping answer questions and code new features as time permits.

Thanks to everyone who has helped us build this product!

Thanks Cyberranger for making Downloads II and developping it with RS_Jelle.

Indeed RS_Jelle does a great job and with this reply I wish to congratulate him with the ownership.
Great work guys, both of you!

Try uploading one of those files to AdminCP -> Maintenance -> Diagnostics -> Upload
Normally it should give a "No errors occurred while opening the uploaded file for reading." message if it works. If it doesn't work it's clearly not a DownloadsII problem, but a general PHP (or something else) configuration problem.

I can confirm the guest problem on your site, but I also tested it on my own testsite and it works fine :s
Any other people to confirm this problem?

I can confirm the category problem for that file, but again I can't find any problems on my own testsite. Although I can fix it on your site by creating the missing category manually inside your database, but then I need phpMyAdmin access or something similar.

There's a Files Sorting dropdown menu at the bottom of the category view. That's one of the options it contains.

You can control category access using the usergroup permissions. You can grant/deny access by listing the category id's and choosing the grant or deny option.

@All: version 5.0.6 is coming soon with some bugfixes.

thats good news any chances to have Multiple files per entry ?

thanks

Not in such a maintenance release :)
Multiple files per entry requires rewriting the database scheme pretty intensive.

With this reply I would like to thank RS_Jelle for his quick and great help for fixing the problems when downloading with IE6!
It's the second time already, first time was great help with a vBA integration.
Do you have a paypal button somewhere for a small contribution?

I would like to know this too.

It's strange, but when i try to change the page in the categoryies, it open the first page, where I was.

Hello guys, thanks for great MOD!!! and your hard work.

I am going to put search box on main downloads page (if possible by template modif.).

Shouldnt that be as default? Search is the core of each database aplication like this one, so why hide that on second page and frustrate users with too much clicking...
Just a thought :)

That's pretty strange indeed, we aren't aware of such an issue. Can you pm me your site url (and eventually a test account to access the downloads section if it's closed for guests) so I can check it out?

I already incorporated a pulldown search menu (vBulletin search type) on the downloads home for v6.

The main problem for v6 at the moment is the directory structure rewrite (with subdirs instead of one downloads directory), so I'm thinking about skipping that for a next version as it takes to much time. There's a lot of new code already finished, so I think it's better to get that released (for example a brand new admin panel, which is fully functional).

Thanks for headup :)

I personally would avoid with search pop-up. I have changed that also on my board, also vb.org is not using it as main search box :)
As I said, search is most essential feature on heavy data site or application...

Good luck with 6x version :)
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1 more request...
is it possible for you to integrate virus scanning like this one:
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=161345

???

Thanks!!!

thanks for the great mod!

i got one question though, how do i set it as a default to go "by file name" instead of going by latest upload?

and i don't mean the categories, i mean the files, thank you!

Everyone's got a different taste :D
But you can change such things pretty easily in the templates.

I already thought about such a thing as I know it from the Moodle e-learning CMS, but I don't think a lot of people have LibClamAV installed. Shared hosts probably don't want to install it as it takes some resources.

Open downloads.php
Find
Replace with

Hi, i've searched through the whole mod topic but I couldn't find what the answer for my question or maybe i just missed it somehow. I have been running for script for almost a month now and it's great at first but because all my members are able to download files at top speed all the time, it caused my server go down many times also my bandwidth increase so much which i'm not very happy with. Can you help me to fix this, how can i reduce the download speed limit so that when one of my member download the file, the server doesn't give out max speed instead only giving out the speed that i want to set. Please help, i really appreciate this.

I'm sorry, but limiting the download speed isn't possible at the moment. The only limits you can set are the download delay (overall and per usergroup) and a limit for the amount of downloads per day per usergroup. Finally there's also a maximum MB that a user can download/upload, but that's not so relevant.

Anyway, such an option is a good idea. Maybe a wait time would be also nice: "The download will start within two minutes".

I guess an old bug is back, or did I forget to change it?
When you're in the "manage files" section and delete a file, you won't be put back in the manage file listing again, or in any case, when the screen refreshes, yo don't see any files anymore.
Happens with FF and also in IE so it doesn't seem a browser issue.

Awesome hack!! I love it.. Great job guys/gals!

A few questions concerning uploading..

1) Is there anyway to incorporate a upload progress indicator?

2) I see you're using POST functions to upload the files.. Can you provide FTP upload options along with POST in AdminCP? This will be useful for people wanting to upload large files like myself (>25MB without hurting the CPU and maxing POST PHP variable out.

Thanks for your hard work!!

This issue is already reported and will be fixed in v5.0.6 which is coming very soon :)

1. Upload indicators using PHP are pretty difficult. It's easier using a Java form and that's one of the many ideas we have for future versions :)
2. You can upload files to a folder on your FTP and use the Import tool in the AdminCP ;)

I apologize if I have somehow missed these answers (...and I probably have), but...

• If I am hosting the actual files to be downloaded on another server can I still use this by linking to those files as though they were hosted locally?

• Will this plugin automatically update the files listed for the users if more files are dumped onto the remote site? i.e. a remote directory is set for the 'e-book' downloads, and more e-books are added, will I have to go and add each new link individually any time there is an update to the remote site?

• Is it relatively simple to add adsense code to the basic template of the downloads pages?

I appreciate your answers and time. This plugin looks very promising!

DownloadsII 5.1.2 Changelog

Jelle

• Backported CSRF security fix from the vB 4 release
• Added permission check for Update Counters
• Fixed PHP warnings when running PHP 5.3
• Removed the imagecreatefrombmp() function. It doesn't exist.
• Added permission check for rating submissions

DownloadsII 5.1.1 Changelog

Jelle

• Fixed bug with download log pruning (name of the hook location changed)

DownloadsII 5.1.0 Changelog

!!! REQUIRES VBULLETIN 3.7.X !!!

Jelle

• Backported vB 3.7 integration from v6 beta (navbar button/search, profile stats/tab)
• Added HTTPS support for linked files
• Better calculation of the usergroup download restrictions
• Some other small code updates

DownloadsII 5.0.8 Changelog

Jelle

• Included the CSRF security fix from vBulletin 3.6.10/3.7 RC4

DownloadsII 5.0.7 Changelog

CyberRanger

• Added extra 666 chmod for uploading images

Jelle

• Fixed an uncached template when using the vBulletin basic editor
• Removed one (unnecessary) query on all DownloadsII pages and tweaked count queries

DownloadsII 5.0.6 Changelog

Jelle

• Fixed XSS security issue with the WYSIWYG-editor on the file edit page
• More code cleanup
• *Really* fixed the update counters function (rerun the Update Counters after the upgrade to fix it)
• Fixed the double slash in image URLs (strrpos() and strlen() have a different count method)
• Fixed empty pages after taking actions using the Manage Files feature
• Added the name parameter to the Content-Type header sent with a download (downloading using IE6 corrupted some files without this in rare cases)

DownloadsII 5.0.5 Changelog

CyberRanger

• Fixed mixed sort order of files on import page

Jelle

• Fixed hardcoded "Category" phrase in the Manage Files option
• Changed category abbrevation in Manage Files to the full category name in the category dropdown windows
• Updated optional navbar edit as the code to search changed slightly since vBulletin 3.6.7
• Fixed problem with multiple pages being empty for the file manager (caused when you have an empty approval value)
• Improved the downloads log with time and ip address information (+ some link and layout changes)
• Fixed the fact that everyone with upload permissions could upload to every file, now you need to be the file author or need to have editall permissions
• Fixed the update counters function which didn't recount the comment amounts (the comment stats were only resetted to 0)
• Fixed XSS security issue with the optional downloads profile info
• Added xmlns attribute to the html tag of the DOWNLOADS template
• Fixed SQL injection security issues with category sorting and the assign uploader page
• Fixed wrong conditions for displaying the assign uploader link
• Fixed XSS security issues with unclean category and file id's in the templates
• Fixed some other bugs and removed some redundant checks

DownloadsII 5.0.4 Changelog

CyberRanger

• Fixed small bug in class_downloads.php ($dl to $this)
• Fixed possible wrong background on some tables
• Added option to restrict daily files downloaded by usergroup
• Enhanced option to restrict daily downloads based on MB and/or number of files
• Removed left side bar (tops) from most of the views with option to display
• Modified search results: added small description and category name, removed # of downloads and rating
• Added "download delay" setting to usergroups
• Fixed bug in mass upload if the file name contained an apostrophe
• Added IP check for max daily MB and file download check
• Modified templates downloads_wrapper_side and dowloads_wrapper_none so that the "disclaimer" will appear if no tops are wanted.
• Added setting in admincp for cleaning log entries that are older than x days.
• Added Javascript prompt before deleting a file, image or comment
• Added five custom hook locations (dl_pre_upload, dl_post_upload_add, dl_post_upload_edit, dl_pre_download, dl_post_download)

Jelle

• Fixed W3C errors in $dmemberfiles
• Fixed manfiles mass update (wasn't working any more)
• Fixed a bug which caused old downloads titles to disappear
• Fixed category images of sub-categories, which weren't displayed in IE
• Moved assignuser permissions condition from the templates to downloads.php and changed permissions slightly
• Changed the word "purgatory" to "moderation queue" in the phrases
• Added a missing AdminCP footer to the edit category page
• Added rel noffolow attributes to the sort links for better SEO
• Changed some stop message pages in the AdminCP to redirection pages
• Improved pagination to the vBulletin coding standards (with a better security)
• Redirect after mass update corrected to manfiles
• Changed the tables code to prevent a small white space at the left and the right side + some various layout fixes
• Fixed an XSS security issue with the category view and search

DownloadsII 5.0.3 Changelog

CyberRanger

• Linked downloads don't open any more in the same window

Jelle

• Some more code cleanup (removed ec_demo mode, ...)
• Fixed a bug with tags being stripped from the description
• Fixed the "Bandwidth value maxed out at 4294967 KB" issue (int(10) to bigint(30))
• Removed the filesize condition from the download delay time
• Sort on total comments in the dropdown box
• Sort on file name in the category view now also clickable in the table header
• Fixed an unnecessary query for the vBulletin editor when viewing a file and comments are disabled
• Updated DownloadsII.txt and renamed it to Readme-Install.txt

DownloadsII 5.0.2 Changelog

CyberRanger

• Fixed link to files in user profile by modifying the template downloads_memberfiles_bit
• Fixed "File Name" phrase on file detail page by modifying the template downloads_file
• Modified "delay" to work better with guests. The client's ip is now stored in the table dl_downloads.
• The file description is now optional
• Fixed issue with counters not updated when a file is deleted or when a files status is changed using "Manage Files"
• Dropped ec from the beginning of the product name

DownloadsII 5.0.1 Changelog

CyberRanger

• Added everything from ecDownloads Buddy back into DownloadsII
• Plug a security hole that could be used for a DoS attack
• Completely re-wrote the method for downloading files
• Cleaned up the "Downloads" section of the admincp (thanks EvilHawk!)
• Permit safe_mode to be on
• Plug a security hole that could be used to get total control of your vBulletin installation (discovered by Jelle)
• Added better protection against DoS attacks. The vb admin can now specify the minimum wait between file downloads.
• Added ability to decide which file extensions provide "save as" option on download and which open automatically in the browser

Jelle

• 100% XHTML 1.0 Transitional and CSS 2.1 W3C compliance
• Removed borders of all images
• Fixed wrong aligned text editor when adding a file with IE
• Moved a lot of hardcoded text to phrases and fixed some missing phrases
• Fixed two wrong phrases for navbits (Add & Edit file)
• Fixed a bug with manage files causing an invalid sql
• Fixed a bug with manage files causing you couldn't select the Pin option in the dropdown menu
• Fixed a bug with the category page: category images of sub categories weren't showing up ($dl->picwidth doesn't exist)
• Removed examples for file name and author when adding a file
• Cached an uncached template causing an extra query on the 'Assign New Uploader' page
• Removed the unnecessary 'add_to_dlinks' hook location
• Cleaned up a lot of code to the vBulletin coding standards
• Added a downloads folder with an empty index.html
• Replaced the top panel with the side panel on the downloads index
• Added dynamic titles for better SEO and navigation
• Added a download button next to the two tiny links (thanks Norke!)
• Fix: comments and votes weren't removed when you deleted a file
• Fixed wrongly recorded votes
• Changed the two desc fields in the database to description (because of database backup problems with desc)

We just released version 5.0.6, which fixes a small XSS security issue and includes bugfixes for all known bugs (including the comment counter problem). For update instructions, read the Readme-Install.txt.

DownloadsII 5.0.6 Changelog

Jelle

• Fixed XSS security issue with the WYSIWYG-editor on the file edit page
• More code cleanup
• *Really* fixed the update counters function (rerun the Update Counters after the upgrade to fix it)
• Fixed the double slash in image URLs (strrpos() and strlen() have a different count method)
• Fixed empty pages after taking actions using the Manage Files feature
• Added the name parameter to the Content-Type header sent with a download (downloading using IE6 corrupted some files without this in rare cases)

Just updated and everything appears to be working as it should.

Thanks a lot for this!

Cheers :)

nice update ....thank you ... can you add little more stuff in this mod ...example you can add who downloaded? who viewing? how many viewed this page...
Thank You

Would the update affect any changes to templates at all?

There's already a detailed downloads log in the AdminCP ;)
Adding that information to the frontend wouldn't be a good thing for privacy imo.

No, there aren't any template updates in this new version. If there are any template updates, they won't overwrite your template changes automatically. So you would need to revert them manually and redo your template changes, just like vBulletin template updates.

I meant using FTP_put()
http://us3.php.net/ftp

The reason for this is because my uploads are timing out considering my shared host has a limit of <= 2MB and users are trying to upload 25-120MB files.

Are you sure? The question was:
Couldn't it work like this:
1.) He makes a downloads directory on his local server where the forum is, like it should be.
2.) Now via the Add files option, one can upload files, or link to files. If you link to files you need the complete http://siteof.files.com/filenam.zip and the length of the archive.

So If done like this, he should be able to host the files on another server and link to them through downloads II.

Or am I missing something?

thanks for the update. In the future I would love to see an option that is a dropdown menu that allows you to either indicate the size in bytes, kilobytes or megabytes instead of bytes - converting mb's to bytes is a drag. Thanks again.

PHP has got an upload limit, that's probably the problem. It's a common issue :)
If you have full server access, you can edit your php.ini (PHP configuration file) and edit the size there manually. If you are on a shared server, you can put a .htaccess file in your forums directory (where you can find downloads.php) with the following content:
Ofcourse you can change the 25MB to what you want. It overrides the php.ini setting.

That's indeed possible, but I think he means something different with:
So I think that's linking to them without revealing the download url (which can't be done with the actual link field)?

An argument against this is the fact that bytes are more accurate. And it's pretty easy to know the exact size of a file in Windows: just right click it and choose for properties. There you can see the size (don't look at the "size at disk", that's not the real one).

Hi, is it possible to create an extra text field for the upload name say like i got 3 chapters of manga and i'm only allow to upload one at a time and instead of writing the whole name in the name box "one_piece_01", I want to have 2 text fields for
Name: one_piece
Chapter: 01

it will combine those 2 text fields together (seperated by "_" or anything I want) to make it become "one_piece_01"

Also, I've tried the to put in my forums dir .htaccess with:
php_value upload_max_filesize 25M
php_value post_max_size 25M

but it doesn't work, it gave me the error "500" for the whole site, anywhere i go i got that error. If I delete it the problem is gone, any suggestion?

It's strange but users with IE can't downloads any file from DOWNLOADSI
It happened after updating to 5.0.6 version