hi, for your informations i repaired the tables several times today but the problem keeps reoccuring. The hack had been working fine for around 2 months then suddenly these errors pop up. vb version 3.0.0

the error message is the same as on the site:

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Database error in vBulletin 3.0.0:

Invalid SQL:
INSERT INTO local_linksdownloads (linkid, linkurl, username, userid, userip, userbrowser, usertime)
VALUES (
'41',
'http://forum.pesinsight.com/showthread.php?t=8678',
'Unregistered',
'0',
'XXXX',
'Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.5; Windows 98; DT)',
1088524553
)

mysql error: Duplicate entry '32767' for key 1

mysql error number: 1062

Date: Tuesday 29th of June 2004 11:55:55 AM
Script: http://forum.pesinsight.com/local_li...ion=jump&id=41
Referer: http://www.google.de/search?q=rebuil...-8&hl=de&meta=
Username: Unregistered
IP Address: XXXX

I think your problem is that Google and other search engines are coming along and accessing all your files. Every time this happens, the downloads table logs it. You've had more than 32K hits since you reset the downloads table.

Immediate suggestions:
- If you're not too concerned about tracking who is downloading what, empty the local_linksdownloads table.
- You can do this in a couple of ways. If you go to the links admin page, there's an option in the statistics section to view/clear the dowloads. Or use phpmyadmin and empty this table.
- You might ask yourself if you really want Google stealing all your band width. Are all your links set to be available without being logged on? You might change this/

I will modify the table definition with the next release so that we don't hit this problem so soon, but it will still be there. I might put some code in to stop bots downloading links.

Thoughts?

thanks for the information. i will just empty the table.

Run this query:[SQL]ALTER TABLE `local_linksdownloads` CHANGE `dlid` `dlid` MEDIUMINT( 11 ) NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT [/SQL]Should solve the problem :) (11 digits for a smallint ? even overkill for a mediumint ... but hey ;))

OUCH! I just tried using this for a couple of files I posted (DX9.0c). It was linked as a normal file and then when I switched to a link using this system the loads jumped from .3 to over 2.0! that's from 1.25 beta....

I really haven't checked into it very much yet to help determine the cause of this within your sytem. I will be doing so as soon as I can right now I'm tweaking some of my own systems to run even better ;) google has started placing me alot better recently in some important key words so I've been getting alot more traffic lately.

OK, basically don't use fopen on any large files since it loads that file into the RAM and it can't exit until the file download is completed. Basically just using the normal redirect is the only thing to do for larger files. You'll want to search google for bandwidth theft to learn some .htaccess methods of blocking refs not from your domain.

does this work on 3.0.2??

Hi Andrew thanks for this awesome script.

*note- Im using 1.22 because my php/mysql is not up to date so i apologize if this has been address in 1.25

Question: How can I alternate the linkbit TD colors for each link and category displayed?

Ive tried editing the linkbit using if conditions with $linkid and it works but when the links are sorted, it throws off the alternating sequence. How can I edit the templates so that the links/categories will always alternate color regardless of how they are sorted?

ok never mind. it works on 3.0.3 :D

I installed an it works great. Thanks... ONE QUICK QUESTION... Where in the templates is the forum jump?? I would like to remove the forums jump drop down menu.

See it here : http://hereyah.com/forums/local_links.php?action=links