There should be something wrong with the directories, permissions, ... DownloadsII isn't storing a server path (there's only the ./downloads setting).

Look at this post for a list of things to do (reinstall means overwriting the product and not uninstall-install, which deletes all data!).

Thanks for the tip, I looked up that post and sure enough my ec_temp dir was set to 755, I set it to 777 and it seems to work fine now.

Where do you download version 6.0 from? I'd like to see what is new and upgrade if possible.

TIA!

Nowhere at the moment, it isn't released :)

Well any idea when it will be available? :)

It will be nice to add files and put them as stickies. Can this be made ?

There's a "pin/unpin" option, which is the same as stickies :)

Nice thanl you so much mate
:):):):):)

By the way mate can you help me out with the Description, is not showing the description part or even the comment part is not showing even though I set the Usergroups to do.

By the way I did Install this in 3.7.2 working fine but just that bug

Anyone please!!

Generally, when no one answers it's because no one quite knows what to suggest. I'm on 3.7.3, but I don't have that problem, so it may be something unique to your forum configuration.

Hopefully someone knows specially the creator of this Mod can help me. :(

This is how the problem looks like when I add a file

might be a template issue, tried vb default skin?

Yes, I did try the Default skin and have the same issue.

Please PM me your site URL and a login/pass with download permissions (to add/edit files) :)

PM on the way thank you

Very nice mod..!!! Excellent.

I have some improvement suggestions and questions, though.

How can I change the picture thumb Quality and how can I change the dimensions of the picture thumbnail?

I have a forum about 3D modeling and Art, and I believe that sometimes pictures are important.
I created a sector about materials available for users to download and the picture thumbnail of the material.
Right now I see that the thumbnail of the uploaded picture does not have enough quality (for my needs) to clearly see what the material is about.
It would be nice to be able to play with those parameters. :-)

Another thing I am interested of having in the mod, is the below:
I believe that Downloads II Create New Thread Add-On is a very useful plugin.

The basic meaning of existing of a plugin like this (Downloads II), is that the users can avoid searching inside posts and threads for specific types of attachments. Instead, they can find everything for downloading" in one place".

Another good reason is that because of the already configured User permission system of vbulletin. Let's assume that administrator want guests/anonymous users to be able to view pictures and not download specific files (zip, tar, rar). The already default permission system of Vbulletin can't help him.
So, He have two options (on/off).

1. Let everyone Download to view/download attachments inside forums (the pictures and the zips - every file).
2. Don't let Specific usergroups (like anonymous/guests) to view/download attachments inside forums.

The extra plugin "Create New Thread Add-On" is a great extra feature. But it can't help.....
...I believe that what we really need is a better integration of this excellent plugin with the attachment system of vbulletin so users can (also) upload their files inside their posts (where they need it).
Examble:

1. The user Write an article about 3D Modeling.
2. The user upload some pictures through the default attachment system of Vbulletin.
3. The user Places the pictures using the attach icon ( [attach]XXXX[/attach]) inside his post.
4. The user Uploads the zip, avi, tar, rar, mov file (every file that is not a picture)
5. The user submit his thread/post and finish.

Result: The downloads II section is empty. The files are lost inside the threads. No-one can find and download them easily.

Now let's see it from the other side....

1. The user Write an article about 3D Modeling.
2. The user upload some pictures through the default attachment system of Vbulletin.
3. The user Places the pictures using the attach icon ( [attach]XXXX[/attach]) inside his post.
4. The user submit his thread/post.
5. The user go to the downloads II section.
6. The user Uploads the zip, avi, tar, rar, mov files to the Downloads II Section in the categories and put some pictures there too (for thumbnail purposes. i.e. If the user uploads a 3D Model, he would like to have more than one pictures attached showing various renderings of the model in different angles and "choose" one picture attachment to be the basic thumbnail of his 3D Model in the downloads II section. Not only the first one. He would like to Choose what he want,the default thumbnail could be the first one attached,though).
7. The user opens another page in his browser and open the download section there (he want the links of his attachments to place them inside the post/thread)
8. The user EDIT his posted post/thread and copy/paste the URL's of the Files he attached in the Downloads II Section.
9. The user submit his thread/post again and finish.

Result:
Downloads II Section have various files for users to download.
The file attachments are collected together, but they have no reference to the Post/Thread (so, the people who download the files (the downloaders), can't see in what thread/post the file exists) Only the thread/post reader can see the file in the downloads II when he clicks the File URL.
The thread/post have the file attachments (but no counter of how many downloads have been done there--> inside the post I mean). They can see the download counter only to the downloads II section).
Finaly, Administrator is unxious about the double posting of picture files (and the space MB of the resulting Thumbnails)....(What a waste of space....he thinks. This is not an optimized site)


Conclusion:

1. What if We could specify the Quality of the attached images?
2. What if We could specify the thumb dimensions of the attached images?
3. What if We could have a second "upload attachment" option in our threads/posts (the Downloads II attachment method)? (Administrator, can set the permissions so he allow only picture attachments to the default attachment system and the rest files to the Downloads II Attachment system). Both attachment systems must exist. The second one (Downloads II) is expanding the default one with it's intergration.
4. What if We could have the attach button/menu have the Downloads II attachments there and be able to post them easily to our posts like the default way? ([attach]XXX[/attach])
5. What if We could have the ability to attach the Picture attachments we uploaded in our thread/post inside the integrated Downloads II Section and share them between this two (thread/post - Downloads II)?
6. What if We could have a reference of our thread name with the prefix too (text with the link inside it, that when the user click on it, it opens in the same page the thread. Not in a blank page)
7. What if the Downloads II plugin could allow the integration with other plugins easily like video Embedding options for an avi attachment? (I don't know if it is already can be done).
   • i.e.The user uploads a Video-Tutorial for 3D Modeling (*.avi, *.mov, *.ogm, etc). He puts it to the downloads Section, so users can download it. He also want to embed it to the thread/post so users can view it directly into the post/thread. The tutorial thread/post is completed. Everyone can do Everything that is relative to the Tutorial Thread (view pictures, download files, View Embedded videos, etc.)
   The thread starter is happy because the interface he used is user friendly. Now he want to write more tutorials and in general post more threads. The Viewer of the Thread is Happy, because the integration Helped him to View the thread and/or the media/files of the thread and he also downloaded easily the attachments. The administrator is happy because he can set the permissions easilly (i.e. anonymous/guest users can see the images but they must be registered to download the zip files, etc) everyone else is happy and he can drink his coffe enjoying his well working and optimized site...!!!
   Everyone is Happy....!!! :)

What do you think about my suggestions? :) :) :) :rolleyes:

Hi, great mod. Been using it for a while now. The only thing I'm having trouble doing though is sorting the files alphabetically.

For example on here the files are displaying in the order they were added.

How can I get them to sort alphabetically by default.

Admin CP > Downloads > Settings > Sort By Weight is set to NO.

How do I do this?

I must be daft, but if I upload a zip file then there is no way to post a image unless I post a followup? I cant upload a zip file with 4 images for example?

Also, I noticed if I do not want to expose my downloads directory and keep it outside of my public_html then images no longer work.

It appears that I HAVE to keep the downloads in public_html

Is this correct?

You can always use BBCode to display your images.


Generally, any vBulletin modification would need it's folders and files somewhere in the root directory of the forum.

Thanks for the info Jedi. I never saw the [img] tag in the row of bbcode buttons so for some reason I assumed it was not available. After testing it it does in fact work. Thanks.

As for the downloads directory thing, thanks as well. I can work around it with .htaccess, I just wanted to make sure I wasn't missing something.

Cheers

This has worked great for me in the past but I just tried to upload a file to the Downloads database and it gives me this error message: Fields marked in RED must be filled in!

But there are no fields in red. When the error screen appears, my Description field and "Choose File" designation are empty. The File Name and Author information remains. I am running Downloads 5.0.8 on vBulletin 3.7.4.

I just tried overwriting the files and reimporting the .xml file but I have the same result. I checked permissions on the /downloads folder and it is 777. I checked the ec_tmp folder and it is 755 but it will not allow me to modify it.

Thanks for any assistance. I hate to lose this. :)

View the "It doesn't work with GARS?!" part in the first post ;)

Thanks! I'm sorry I missed that. :o

I did a search, and maybe I'm just not seeing it, but is there a way to replace the comment (not description) editor with the quick reply editor?

I think that would require a fair bit amount of modification.

For the Most Downloaded & Most Recent files is it possible to change these depending on the category the user is viewing?

Eg: if the user was looking at a freeware section then only the files in that category would show up on the Most Downloaded & Most Recent files.

Is it possible?

I did all of the steps add after I imported the .xml document in, I noticed it is only showing up in the vbulletin options, doesnt have the link like it should admincp-downloads, etc

also when I try to access the main page to see if it is working I get the following error?

Warning: require_once(./includes/class_downloads.php) [function.require-once]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in [path]/downloads.php on line 135

Fatal error: require_once() [function.require]: Failed opening required './includes/class_downloads.php' (include_path='.:/usr/lib/php:/usr/local/lib/php') in /home/freni322/public_html/forum/downloads.php on line 135

Website is RadarDetectorLaser.Com

nevermind I figured it out.... duh! :}

I was hacked last month and after that I had changed the downloads folder to 755 of course it no longer while it is chmoded like that. But I just found that there was in fact 2 files used to hack my site in the downloads folder. one called sql.php and the other called moj.php both containing base64 code (encrypted)

I am a little worried to change the folder back to 777 incase I get hacked again. Is there anything i should change on my server to ensure these php files in this folder will not function if they are able to upload them again?

do you allow php files to be upload?

I've just run into a strange issue. Suddenly I'm not getting any notifications of files waiting in moderation. Before I was getting PMs notifying me of this.

Now I can't find where this setting is. Can anyone refresh my memory?

im still getting the security token issue for images only, not files.
ive updated vbulletin to the latest stable release along with re upping all the downloadsII text files in ascii mode.

i lost my count where my answers goes unanswered while other ones get answered

will there be any feature that can support several download path not only to /downloads when you import files through admincp.
because once your hdd space is full you cant import any files at all because all files copies directly to downloads

symlink do not work because u need to copy directory to a new hdd to make it whole work but what is the point of having my primary hdd when i bought the big hdd for the very purpose to store the files for this mod

When I access this url:

http://www.radardetectorlaser.com/forum/downloads.php

It says at the top "the download directory doesnt exist"

which is probably why I cant upload files to it?

I uploaded all the files from the mod, which file is this referring to that I am missing?

I'm having this same issue and I see that others are having it too. Why can't we get some support on this??? :mad:

nope. these are my allowed file extensions: zip rar tar gz
and here are my allowed image extensions: jpg jpeg jpg2 gif png

Come on guys, not everyone knows the answer to your questions. I'm sure when someone who can help sees it, they'll try to help you. Or, it's already been answered somewhere earlier in the thread.

i pointed my questions to the authors of this mod hoping they could help me, but they avoided my questions at least 5-6 times :(

A lot of times a developer will not answer questions that have already been asked and answered earlier in the thread, or if you have not marked installed. I'm not saying that's the case here, but you should try covering your bases first.