Hey all ,
I have installed it but got 1 problem. I cannot put in a discription.
In settings the Length of File Description on Summary Page is on 300.

Its is not on my screen., I see the word discription but there is nothing where i can put the discription in. That for i cannot submit a file. Can somebody please explain me what i do wrong..

Simple said i dont have a disciption field ???????

For the top contributors list is, there a way to make it based on the authors instead of the uploaders?

Try reverting the templates containing the description or editing them to use the new variable name (ex. $desc to $description).

Well i am a little noob with this ..So i dont know even wich template to do that to.

I used phpmyadmin and opened the "dl_files" table and changed the field name from "description" to "desc" and it seems to have worked. Thanks for pointing me in the right direction. :D

You should have reverted the template instead of renaming the field back to "desc". :p

I think westpointer changed the field name to description from desc because desc is a mySQL reserved keyword can cause problem when you restore the database from a backup.

Just go to the templates and open the "Downloads Templates" group. There are not many templates in there.

The templates you want to look at are

downloads_cat_filebit
downloads_file
downloads_file_addit

Obviously if you haven't edited you templates at all, then reverting is not necessary.

Ok, I found the issue and discovered that I did not have an updated "download.php" that was causing the issue. Very strange indeed. :)

Well i m using Download II. It is a nice thing to have on a download site. But there are certain things which should b there but they are missing in existing system of Downloads II. Looking for a updated version so that Downloads II become more efficent and usefull than it is right now.

Would like to see these in Downloads II latest version

• Multiple External Link in Single Download post should b allowed as right now Downloads II allow to add only one download link. If we add multiple downloads link in description section than the Download Button and the Download thumbnail in catageory become useless and user have to redirect them to some other external link or to some image. VERY PAINFUL while addin music albums or adding multiple files.
• If Thumbnails of latest files added to downloads are shown on the download page that will b great. As in Arcade, when we add some new game in the arcade it automatically shows on the main page of the arcade with full details like who played that game, how many times and when. Such details can b usefull for user who are downloading from Downloads II.
• There should be some kinda Upload Progress bar. Because it get very difficult for a user to know how much of the file is done and how much is left while uploadin stuff.
• And if possible Download should not be start untill user don't post a comment for the download.
• Random Download box can be included on the left panel.

Well it's all on you till what level you can take the Downloads II.

It would be nice if the column headers on the My Files page allow people to sort their files (ex. by date added, by name, etc).

I get down reported along mail.
I everything have already removed.

Database error in vBulletin 3.6.0:

Invalid SQL:
SELECT * FROM dl_files WHERE `purgatory` = '0' AND `category` = '31' ORDER BY `pin` DESC, `dateline` DESC LIMIT 0,20;

MySQL Error : Unknown column 'dateline' in 'order clause'
Error Number : 1054
Date : Tuesday, August 8th 2006 @ 05:10:20 PM
Script : http://........../forum/downloads.ph...&sort=dateline
Referrer :
IP Address :
Username :
Classname : vB_Database

I don't think there is a field called "dateline". Try changing it to sort by "date" instead.

Westpointer, in a future version, think you can make it so when someone edits a file to upload a new version or deletes a file entry, the file gets deleted from the server as well? This way those old obsolete files don't take waste server space.

Is it possible to make sure users post a certain number of posts on the forums to have access to the downloads? If not, that would be a nice addition.

It's posible to do that using vB's user group permissions and promotion system.

I have a question myself: Since anyone can download files on my site, would it be a problem when search bots try to index the downloads section and visit the download links, generating incorrect download count for the file?

EDIT: I added rel="nofollow" to all the download links. Hope this is enough to prevent search bots from visiting those download links.

Normally rel="nofollow" is enough, but you can't stop all of the bots very easily (those bots are most of the time of dubious search engines who are also providing spyware toolbars, ...) ;)

Perfect,

Thank You!

there is still an issue with this version and php5 which needs looking at ;)

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost....&postcount=240

Hello,
I've installed it an now I got a problem by uploading files. I got this SQL-error:
By changing the table-name description in dl_files to desc it works fine. What should I do, so that the tablename is desciption and all works?


T

The name of the desc field changed to description. So it seems that your database is up-to-date, so you have imported the product file correctly. But this query is impossible, I checked it again and every query is changed to use description.

So try to reupload and overwrite all the files (you haven't uploaded the newest ones) ;)

I have dowloaded the version today, so I think it's up-to-date. But I try it once again.

hmmm. first ther is no change. but after some minutes all works.

T

I can't give any explication for that :confused:
There isn't any query that is using the desc field. The INSERT query is using description, so it can't give such an error normally. This is the first time I hear about such an error.

But it's solved now :)

Hello. Thanks for your hack. Please include an approval (moderation) system for the uploaded files and comments to the files. I think this is quite important. I want to give the upload feature to all members but I want to approve the uploaded files and comments before they are visible so that there is no abuse.

hurry, you can already moderate files. Just check "no" for the avoid purgatory option for the user group.

There is no moderate comments feature though.

Thanks HappyPike. Just was not sure was purgatory meant. I really hope Westpointer and Jelle add the moderate comments feature also and a RSS feed for the download gallery which is a basic feature for all download galleries, so that we can display the downloads on any other page with the help of the RSS feed.

Also an email notification is required when uploaded files are there to be approved so that the members do not have to wait for a long time to see their files and the admin does not have to manually check now and then.

hehe.. I didn't know what purgatory meant at first too. :D

Regarding file approval, on my site I give "avoid approval" to members who have been with the site for a month and have certain posts counts. So far it's working out fine and no one has abuse the system yet.

Though we do need a report file feature to report things like abuse, broken links, etc. westpointer is working on this I belive. While we are at it, a report comments feature is needed too, especially since people can insert images in comments and there is no way to see recently posted comments at one place.

What do you think of the name moderation queue instead of purgatory?

RSS feeds will become a new feature ;)

Hello.. Is there any possiblity to importing mass files from another site? Like my full path is /home/user/golpo/downloads/ if i want to import files from /home/user/somethingelse/blabla/ is it possible? I dont think it is.. But just hav to sure..

Yes, that is more clear.

That would be cool. Please allow us to choose the number of last uploaded files which we can show in the RSS feed and also an option for the RSS feed to include the full file description, title, thumbnail and download link in the RSS feed.

I personally would not be able to use the comments feature unless the comments approval feature is added as it is better to spend some extra time in approving the comments then to try to find and delete some abusive comments later on. I am also using photoplog and vblogetin and both have a comment approval system which prevents any kind of abuse.

Since DownloadsII is already so feature-rich, I would request to include the comments moderation also to make it complete and email notification of files and comments to be approved.

What will be the html code for putting the DownloadsII search box in another html page? Thankyou.

I've two questions about features that some of our users asked me.
1. Is it possible to insert a field for the version-number of a programm?
2. In the postbit template is the up-/download information. How can I add the information how many MB a user have downloaded or uploaded?
like:

downloads: 4 (125MB)
uploads: 10(4256MB)

T

Hello. I also need the feature of an ability to directly upload the files to an external server instead of giving an external url link like the File Upload Manager mod on this site does. This is because my forum is on a premium hosting which has less disk space and my bulk files are on a cheaper bulk hosting. So I want that everyone should be able to upload the files, but they should directly go to my other bulk hosting. I hope this is possible.

You could also give my other product, AboutToday, a try. :)

BTW - sorry for not contributing much the last week. RL is hectic for another week or so.

Hello,
I'm nearly to upgrade my forum to vb 360.
The only modification in downloadsII is alt in downloads.php as in post #256?
Only this?
Best regards,
Beduino

You can make that change (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost....&postcount=256) if you want. You don't need to do so for it to work with v3.6. It does so with or without that change.

Westpointer are you working on New version of Downloads ??

I just noticed that the icon for IMG tag is missing in the editor toolbar. This only happens in DownloadsII. Anyway to make it appear?

Well...if works with vb 3.6 i will make the upgrade
tks for your answer, westpoint!
beduino

Feature suggestions/request:

-- In addition to the Most Popular Files list, can you also add a This Week's Popular Files list that is based on # of total downloads for the past 7 days? That should give some newer files a chance to get featured on the list. :)

-- For the Latest Files list, currently it generates a second column that's not used, with codes like:

It would be nice if the next version doesn't output these unnecessary codes.

Really hope this makes it in the next version. I was just looking at the downloads folder and those old version files easily take up 100 MB or more space. :eek:

Dont worry about my last comment, i was doing something stupid >.<

I need something like this for my new forum, its awesome. However it does need a little modding in the way it works for it to suit it perfectly. Could i:

a) Ask the creator if he wants a paying job modding it slightly
b) If the answer to the above is no, ask if i have permission to have it slightly modded by another coder.

I'm having a weired problem.. I add .mp3 extension.. Add files using mass import.. chmod 777 just the download directory.. But none can download any single file.. Its just stop after few seconds/minutes.. Sometimes its stop after downloading 200 kb sometimes after 1 mb sometimes after 75 kb :confused:.. I did upgrade from Ron|n's eCDownload.. I'm on vB 3.6.0.. Any help? Also a quick question to Westpointer.. When u 'll integrate it with vBPlaza?

Edit: My file name is Artcell - Rahur Grash [www.golpo.net].mp3 I've tried removing [www.golpo.net] but still same results.. Is thr anything I've to do to use it with vB 3.6.0 ?