any thoughts on my drunked thoughts andrew :P

cheers :P

Yeah, Benj, I've got a full time job of work to do - hang in there man...

hahaha ok sorry im an student with to much time on my hands :P all good dw thought you missed it thats all

OK, take a look at your World of Art. I've added images to all your links - three as image urls, one as an upload. I've also uploaded a pdf document.

In order to make things work like this, I had to make two changes to your configuration:

a) change the linkbit - that table linkbit does not show images
b) change your VB attachment size limit for pdfs - it was limited to 20K bytes

I hope everything is self-explanatory

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Woow big tnx AndrewD :) Great job.

thanks, tested it out and that's pretty cool, I wish that ability to hide and show was in a lot of other places in the forum :p

but what I'm actually trying to explain is that when someone is on the link_listbit page when they click on what is now the download/follow link part of it that instead of going to the site or downloading the file it would go to another page in the the LDM which has more information about the file, possibly more pictures, instructions, etc. And on that page is where they can follow a link to download the file/visit the site.

Basically for links I like the way it is now. I can show a small thumbnail and short description then they can click on the link to visit the site and find out more. But for files I'd like it so that when they click on the link they go to a page where I can explain more about the file and offer any support there. This would keep the link_listbit page nice and organized/uncluttered and still allow me to go into more detail about the file.

sorry if I don't make any sense.. I have a hard time explaining what's in my head sometimes :p

I think I understand. You're really looking for being able to attach a whole load more 'meta' information about the file. I did this a simple way with categories - you can have the brief and the extended link. I'd prefer not to add an 'ad hoc' solution to this - let me think about the problem for a while, because there's something general to sort out - for example, if the file was an mp3, then you'd like it to read the ID3 tags, if its a picture, maybe the EXIF data, if its a Word document or a pdf, then the document properties, and so on.

I'm just looking to be able to choose whether they can download the file or visit the link straight from the link_listbit template or whether the entries on the link_listbit would link the user to another page in the LDM with more information about the file.

-link_listbit
-->live link + brief description/thumbnail
-->live link + brief description/thumbnail
-->live link + brief description/thumbnail
-alt_link_listbit
-->brief description/thumbnail
--->extensive description/thumbnails + live download link
-->brief description/thumbnail
--->extensive description/thumbnails + live download link

Yes, I understand that - but can you already enter the 'more information' that will appear on another page, or is it something more extended? In other words, are you happy with a main display which does not give all the text, image, etc, that is currently entered - just the title? I'm sorry if I'm missing the point.

ok, sorry, edited my post above.

yes, I can enter all the information I want into the link_listbit setup now, but then the page looks really unorganized because there's no consistency (some have brief descriptions and some have long ones).

here's an example of what I mean using another downloads script (it doesn't have the other features, but is just an example of a template list that links to a file description/download link instead of right to the file).
http://www.troc.us/forum/downloads.php?do=cat&id=11

that's like the link_listbit template but if you click on a file name it doesn't start the download, it goes to a page with more info about the file.