Well, you can just add two phrases for that.

Fantastic! :)

OH, wiki looks nice :D

I'm getting 404 file not found when links is added:

local_links/links/5 or /local_links/jump/2/5

Them I get:

The page cannot be found
The page you are looking for might have been removed, had its name changed, or is temporarily unavailable.

VB 3.6

Looks as if you switched on Search Engine Optimisation in LDM - LDM/Admin/Settings - have you configured Apache also?

Not, is working now after I switch back to OFF this option:

seo_friendly

Hi All,

I have recently installed LDM 2.2.1 for vB 3.5.4

Everything seems to be fine. I have started setting up categories etc.

I have one big problem. I cannot seem to link from the home category page to the new categories I've setup. It takes me to a URL that has no relelance at all. All 4 links to the each different categories takes me to the same URL.

Then I added a URL link to the one category and this too wants to take me to the strange URL instead of the URL link I inserted.

Sorry I'm not too technically clued up on this stuff, so go easy on me;)

Thanks again for a great addition, hope to get it up and running asap.

DOH! Sorry, just saw the SEO post a few posts up, turned it off and what you know, it works just fine:D Sorry about the trouble...

Cool, nice one :)

Upgrading my test forum went fine. I'll let you know if I come across anything untoward.

A suggestion while I'm here ..

I've been thinking about keywords and it seems like the thing a lot of people are talking about at the moment are keyword/tag clouds.

Given that we already have a keyword system in place it seems silly not to take advantage of it :)

So how about a keyword cloud on the front page (as well as a vBa module), with the number of keywords showing dependent on settings within the admin panel.

See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tag_cloud for a better explanation than I can give :)

Excellent idea - added to the 'Wish list' ('think about it' list??)

Glad you like it :)

I think I've found a couple of bugs/issues in 2.2.5 btw ..

I use some of LDM as a contact list here and as you can see I use the short linkbit to list them, so that people have to be members to click the link and see the details. (I have protected_link at 2)

Now, that's all well and good but if you then click on the "What's New" link in the show menu, you get all new links including the new contacts listed using the Tabular linkbit, which is my default linkbit.

So issue one is that the search pages don't keep the defined linkbit you've given to a link. Not sure how to fix that, perhaps have links that have different linkbits in different tables, so you see the first table of small linkbit links and then a table showing the tabular links.

Now, on to the bug .. still looking at the What's New page click on the "Show Full/Short Entries" collapse button so you get the links using the short linkbit. Now go to the front page of LDM and click on the "Local Contacts" category.

You should now see lots of ..
warnings at the top of the page ..

If you go back to the What's New page (or any page where you can uncollapse the links) and uncollapse them, the error goes away when you go back to the Local contacts page.

Next issue, when using the short linkbit in the way that I am there is no link for the system to count hits from. So even if someone has clicked the short linkbit link to see the details of the contact I have no way of knowing how many people have looked at it. Is there any chance we could have it so that it counts the clicks on the short linkbit link? (Only if there is no URL attached to the entry maybe?)

Last issue :) .. there seems no way of changing the linkbit that the link on the short linkbit goes to. It seems to default to the Modern linkbit style instead of the default linkbit. (Not saying I want the default linkbit on this occasion, but it would be nice to be able to pick)

One more possible bug I think .. When looking at the Modern linkbit, after clicking on the short linkbit link I get an "error on page" error when using IE, although I don't see anything when using Safari. Is there some more javascript that I need to add to my header due to the vBa integration? or is it something else?

I'd spotted this one, thanks - I hope it's fixed in the 2.2.6 alpha?

After a quick export/import of my links to my test board ... Yep, seems to be fixed :)

As is the use of the non default linkbit when clicking on the short linkbit link .. (would be nice to be able to pick this mind :p)

I'll just go and hide in a corner for a while :D

A quick note to say that the new xml import/export system is brill! :)

A suggestion .. the ability to pick which categories get exported.

In 2.2.6, and I think in 2.2.5, is there any reason why the "name", "description" and "Extended Description" entry boxes are as large as they are lengthways? Any chance of making them the same size as the Parent Category box within the add/edit category page?

Not sure what's happened .. but this has gone back to the behavior I described before .. !?

Will investigate - other suggestions also good. I have four free evenings before going on holiday...

upgrade from the last version to this one went flawlessly. Excellent work.

clicked install

For anyone who experiences the spate of 'divide by zero' messages when using the Short linkbit, here's the fix.

Edit local_links.php, go to line 457:

Change to

Ditto line 437 in local_links_search.php (exactly the same edit)

Sorry about that.

Hi all, I have installed and used LDM just yesterday.. it's good product.

But I have some questions and I hope you will help me ..

1- My language is Arabic, and i didn't find a complete translation for it. And I can do the translation proccess easly but I don't know how !!

2- Can I choose to upload files to another palce ( not my forums folder) ? I meant the files/entries which users will upload.

3- Can I show the real link for uploaded files to the user who uploaded it. so he/ she can use this link in his posts in the forums. if so , how ?

I'll be thankfull if found the answers here.

That seems to of done the trick :) Thanks Andrew :D

1. If your board is located in ...com/board/, can you install LDM in ...com/linkDirectory/ ?

2. Can you install this product once and use it for different sub-directories like ...com/links/ ...com/directory/ ....com/gallery/ with no additional install and database installs?

Thank you in advance.

Look in the zip file that you downloaded in the directory development/phrases. You will find a file phrases-ar.xml. This has the start of the Arabic translation. Basically you have to edit everything in the CDATA tags, for example:

Here you replace "Home Page" by whatever it should be.

When you have finished, you can import the phrases into your own boad using the VBulletin admin languages section. Please post the file here, and I will include it in the main release in future.

Yes. Go to the LDM admin/settings page. You will find a series of settings for file uploads. One of these, uploads_dir, tells LDM the base directory for storing the uploads.

There are two other settings, local_file_root and local_file_root_prefix, that you can to control more precisely where on your server this directory is placed. This is explained in the on-line user manual. Be careful with these settings unless you understand what you are doing.

The real link to display the entry is always of the form local_links.php?linkid=NN&catid=MM and the real link to access that link id always local_links.php?action=jump&id=NN&catid=MM (sorry about the inconsistency), with local_links.php in your forum directory.

At the time the linkbit is being built inside LDM (i.e. when the display pages are being constructed, NN and MM are held in two variables called $linkid and $catid. So you could modify the linkbit template to display this informatioin if you wish.

Haven't tried this, but it should be straightforward. You would need to make a minor change to the coding to switch to the forum directory when running. Why would you want to do this? The files that LDM manages are not stored in your forums directory.

Not easily. But you can always install LDM once and create a set of nested categories which use different styles and layouts suitable for different types of entry. You could then enable the search-engine friendly features (one setting in LDM and patch apache) to link directly through to these subcategories.

New feature suggestions .. :)

How about being able to link to RSS feeds? .. everything would be the same, apart from when you click on the feed link which would direct you to a LDM page where you would see content of the feed. I know we have "XML/RSS feeds in" in the wish list, but I see that more as an automated process of pulling in links from other LDMs.

The ability to "Spider" a link. This would be a link within the link bit which would go to the page linked and show all of the links linked from that page. I wouldn't expect that LDM would remember these spidered links, more just to see them and use them at that point. Not sure if that makes sense :)

The ability for the admin to set if a link entry can check to see if the site linked to is linking back to your site. This could be expanded to giving the site linking to you a link that LDM could pick up, keep count of the incoming hits and then redirect to the front page of the site.

:)

These are good suggestions, thanks.

Someone suggested the last one some months ago (you'll find it in the wish list). I'm not entirely sure how to implement it, other than by spidering the site.

I did the guts of the 'tag cloud' last night - basically just pull out the keywords which are most frequently used. Clever formatting (big text, etc) is another thing - as soon as I start introducing fancy css formatting, someone will get upset because it doesn't work with their vb style ;)

Ahh .. I must be going blind :) .. I like the suggested email feature, but I guess you would need to know the email address first.

But you need the formatting to be a tag cloud ;) .. heh :)

Oh, and I've thought of something else. How about being able to pull the icon the web page uses to put into people favorites and then show it next to the link in the linkbit. I think it's called "favicon.ico" isn't it?

Am I right in thinking that the autocreate-threads extra creates a thread every time you add an entry?

I know that in the wish list there's a request to integrate comments into the forums. Couldn't the autocreate-threads extra be changed to just create a thread once a comment had been made. At which point LDM would know the thread id and then be able to keep an eye on things like the amount of posts/comments as well as the rating the thread has been given (and therefore the rating for the entry) .. ?

hi,

the file is in includes! what can i do? i cant install the produkt.xml !

This message usually means that not all the code files have been uploaded to your web site - specifically the files in the includes/ subdirectory.

Just updated to 2.2.6a and installed the new extra for patch forum home thumbnails. It seems to be working great without any bugs.. thanks for all the work you've put into this.

Is it possible to make the thumbnails which appear on the forum home patch a different size than the ones in the ldm? (I have a fairly large thumbnail setting for the ldm which isn't quite as practical to have on the forumhome)

hi,

the file is in the includes directory!

ich have checked them!

If you send me a PM with details of your VB board plus an admin username and password, I'll take a look.

hi,

on the way! thank you

Please check include/local_links_admininclude.php

I think you may have only partially uploaded it.

hi,

the file is on the server !

yes, I know it's on the server, but I think it may be corrupt or only partially transferred.

hi,

oki i have load them new on the server!

OK, all fixed, I think.