I created an account on your site (andrewd) - could you give the account enough access to try to find some answers (e.g. admin?)

ok andrew, no problem. cheers

Andrew, I used the plugin to add all the mime type extensions last night and forgot to the remove the ones I didnt want to use. Anyway, ive now removed them but ive just noticed that a user of the forum created a thread and added an mp3 attachment

http://www.djpassion.co.uk/forums/me...-part-1-a.html

I only want to allow mp3 uploads for the links and download manager NOT in thread attachments. Is there a work around for this?

As you'll see, I've been at work on your site.

First, concerning the drop down menus on the LDM navbar, with IE. I'm not sure what is causing the problem, but it is somehow connected with your style. When I display your site using the basis VB style, everything works correctly. With your style, as you say, the LDM navbar breaks. Furthermore, if I download the html code from site pages that are broken, and host them on my server, the menus work correctly.

Second, I have successfully uploaded three files (3Mb, 7MB and 17Mb) using the swf uploader. I also had two occasions whe the upload failed. I need to sort out why the failures are happening. I'l try to dig further over the weekend.l

I'll give this some thought.

Hmmm i dont get whats wrong with my style then. well i wouldnt launch the upload / download center until most of the needed features work properly anyway. so no rush fixing the uploads, helping to get the style thing to work and adding a work around for the attachment (should decide to allow the option). ill leave the access as is for you anyway so you can test when you like. Least I can do to help you make the plugin better.

Cheers,
chris.

The problem with your style is as follows: Go to vb/admin/styles and templates/style manager. Take a look at the Main CSS for your default style, and scroll down to the bottom. I There are two boxes in the section marked Additional CSS definitions. Both of these are heavily reconfigured in your style.

In the top box, there is are two lines in the subdreamer css section which read:
I've no idea if this css is essential to your style. Its effect is to kill the display of the LDM navbar popup menus on IE, but for some reason not with Firefox.

I have created a "Child of Default" style on your board, which is identical to your default style, except that I have removed that line. The LDM menus work correctly with this style.

I'll see about a permanent fix in a new version of LDM.

Concerning the mp3 files, what you can do is disable the unwanted attachment types in the vb/admincp - attachments/attachment manager/edit mp3/uncheck enabled. LDM will continue to accept mp3, but your forums will not.

I'll get back to you on the swfupload extra. I'll probably have to provide some debug code for you to upload onto your site.

Cool, yes that’s fixed it now, Andrew.

Subdreamer CMS comes with automatic forum skinning which is what I used. But the forums wouldn’t validate as vaild xhtml at w3c because I had <link> etc in the wrong place. So I had to copy some code/css from the Subdreamer skin ’Passion’ that I modifed and added it to the vBulletin style sheet instead so that the forums would pass as vaild xhtml.

Right from the start though I had another problem which was when the forums wasn’t skinned by Subdreamer CMS and vBSEO's option ‘Cleanup HTML Code’ was enabled the vbulletin quick links would work. But only when the forums was skinned and while having the vBSEO option ‘Clean HTML Code’ was enabled I would get the same problem as what was happening with the ldm navbar links. Anyway, so I had to disable the vBSEO option so the standard vbulletin quick links would work. Though it didn’t make a different with ldm.

But now you have removed the unnecessary css from the vbulletin skin even with both forum skinned/vBSEO option ‘Clean HTML Code’ the vbulletin quick links and dlm links work now.

So I've copied your code back to the default style sheet and will use that now. And will delete the other ones as they arent needed now.

Thanks for finding that unnecessary css, Andrew. All vbulletin/ldm drop down links work properly now. Much apprecaited!


This works fine. Cheers!

I will provide you ftp details if thats easier for you. I'd like you to check something else to do with where/how the music is uploaded in ldm (structure wise) looks odd looking on ftp. loads of blank folders and stuff.

I will PM you shortly.

Big thanks for the css fix. Much appreciated.

noticed another prob which is when viewing a category the moderator links are too close together

Moderators: Chris PowellKarlosandrewd

should be

Moderators: Chris Powell Karlos andrewd

cheers

Yes, I noticed that as well

Ok. I tried to figure out where to add &nbsp; or <br /> but couldnt figure out which file the moderator names were coming from. Anyway, as long as you know. ;)

The alpha-4 swfuploader extra was not working with IE (actually another bug in IE). It works ok, as far as I can tell with Firefox. It also appears (as far as I can tell) to handle uploads bigger than 100MB, so the Flash documentation is inaccurate. The beta 1 release of LDM will correct these points.

Awesome.

Im having a similar problem (I also use subdreamer). Can I simply remove those 3 dropdowns? I dont really need them anyway, and also, can I remove the Sort by?

Thanks!

I see how that bar is used for a lot of other things, Can I instead remove the bar completely for anyone but admin?

Also, I tried removing the vertical-align: codes but it didnt seem to fix it. Seems to not work in FF and IE.

The LDM navbar is coded in the links_header template. It is actually set up to work in both a drop-down and flat style, with rather fewer items on show with the flat style.

Take a look at the template and you will find this sequence:


The part in the "if" clause creates the drop down, and the "else" produces the flat style. So if you replace the "if" statement by

you will always get the flat style. Similarly you can modify the code so that only admins get to see the bar by wrapping round the whole if-then-else another if statement which tests on the value of $vbulletin->usergroupid (=6 for admins).

Hi Andrew, since removing that code my forums aren’t loading up correctly in FF2 now

http://www.djpassion.co.uk/forums/

Well im not 100% sure whether its removing that code which has caused it or not to be honest. But the last time i checked the forums in FF2 just under a year ago they loaded fine though. I remember checking. A lots been done to the forums since then though like vBulletin updates. Could you please check in case installing the ldm hack as changed anything though as im not getting a reply from vbulletin.com and subdreamer.com cant work out what the exact problem is. Would like to narrow it down as to what could be causing the problem.

Any help would be much appreciated

Rgw problem I can see with FF2 is that the box containing the navigation bits and user login is disappearing off the right hand of the screen. This does not happen with IE.

As far as I can see, this is being caused by another part of your subdreamer css, I think the lines:
It happens regardless of whethet the div statement is commented in or out.

I'm a bit surprised because this was not happening at the weekend when I last looked at your site, so I wonder whether something else has changed.

Hmmm well I tried playing around with the css earlier today but could not seem to figure out what the problem was. I check several hours later and the problems gone now though. I thought subdreamer.com staff fixed the problem but they say they never. Did you end up fixing it Andrew? I hope so otherwise ill never know what caused the problem

aaah it was me ive done it.

i had to change this

// ################################ SDHEADER ###################################

$sdheader = '
<div id="wrapper">
<div id="border_right">
<div id="border_left">
<div id="sdlogo"></div>
<div class="navigation_1">
<div class="navigation_2">
<div class="navigation_3">
<div class="navigation_4">
<div class="navigation_5">
' . $categories . '
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div id="content_6_alt">
<div id="column_right_alt_2">

';

___

to this

// ################################ SDHEADER ###################################

$sdheader = '
<div id="wrapper">
<div id="border_right">
<div id="border_left">
<div id="sdlogo"></div>
<div class="navigation_1">
<div class="navigation_2">
<div class="navigation_3">
' . $categories . '
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div id="content_6_alt">
<div id="column_right_alt_2">

';

____

Thanks for your help Andrew.

So many things changing... and still 3.7 is not gold! x.x

Does any of this tie into dropdown menus? I am using subdreamer and none of my dropdowns seem to work. I think it has something to do with the forum style, but Im not sure.

Let me make sure here

Do your vbulletin Quick Links work? If they dont then I doubt its anything to do with AndrewD’s dlm hack. If the vbulletin Quick Links do work but your dlm drop down menu links dont they it’d most likely down to your subdreamer forumskin.php

Its tricky to say without looking. Its just a matter of checking through everything narrowing down the problem really.

Part of the css associated with subdreamer was killing the LDM dropdowns on Internet Explorer, but not with Firefox. The problem line was the div declatation given in one of my earlier posts. I have not worked out whether this is a bug in IE or in Mozilla or neither, but will try to ensure that LDM does not suffer from it, by the time version 2.2.9 is final.

Hello AndrewD

Is there any way to remove the bar between the categories?

The bar only appear if you give entries specific (and different) display_order values.

It is created using the links_linkseparator template, so you can edit that template as you wish.

Excellent!

I just removed the row and it looks perfect.

Thanks!

Andrew, when i go to add an entry and the form loads up i get a warning/error message appear at the bottom left corner in my browser which has

Line: 160
Char: 101
Error: Expected identifier, string or number
Code: 0
Url: http://www.djpassion.co.uk/forums/ content.html?

Im using Internet Explorer

Yes, that's the bug in the swfupload code which stops it working in Internet Explorer. The problem is actually in IE (not following the standard) but it's easy to get round. I'll be posting a new version of the code this weekend.

Thanks,

Ok no worries. I look forward to the new version.

Ps cannot believe this hack only has 18 votes and an average of 4.83. Though I suppose that?s because it?s still in the beta/alpha stages.

Anyway, the DLM hack is already very good - the more users that use it to test it etc the better it will become, esp other requesting for extra features etc. The support is excellent. If any of you are using this hack, please give an honest vote and click installed.

Thanks for this hack and the time you spend on it to improve it etc @ AndrewD! :cool:

Cheers,
Chris.

Thanks, Chris. I don't take too much notice of the votes (never sure why people vote how they do), but be aware that there is a separate forum for version 3.6 of vbulletin, with 785 installations, and for version 3.5 with 343 installations and for vb 3.0 with 253 installations :)

It's been under development since 2004 and the code base is now something like five times the original size. Up to vb 3.5, it did not handle uploads, for example.

woot! finally updated

3.70 RC1 and 2.2.9a4 - working ... mostly (see below)


bug?
I can't get category icons to show. :( (even if using FULL url)
eg: http://www.unrealaddicts.com/forums/local_links.php
"music to frag to" category
should be this: http://www.unrealaddicts.com/forums/linksdownloads/icons/music-to-frag-to-Clan-TSU.jpg


The image path shows up missing the forums root folder
eg (wrong url --missing /forums/) :
(category edit >> control settings is set relative to forum root for cat icons).


But I also get this error when use full url

You are lucky, I can't even create any categories. No error showed up, just won't write to DB, so can't create categories. :mad:

Cool, good stuff. keep up the good work man.

Cheers,
Chris.

Am happy to help - just let me know how.

Thanks for the report - bugs confirmed - will fix.

bookmarked - Because i am DEFINITELY interested in this mod once it is out of beta stage.

Good job!

Version 2.2.9 beta is now available for testing. Will appreciate reports.

I just updated ldm but have noticed that the edit file link is being blocked. I try to delete a file but get some kind of operation could not complete message

Hmm I cant seem to add files either. Think I'll leave it for now. Will let you take a look AndrewD