Andrew, thanks for the speedy reply.

I followed those steps to the letter and spent hours yesterday adding a new forum with the right permissions, but as the forum was in an 'xtra' section, it wouldn't show up whilst trying to select it under the drop down menu for "default_forumid". It would only show the first two forum categories. So, after restoring all the default values on the 3rd 'xtra' category, and it still not being selectable, I just added the new forum under the main category and was then able to select it.

Once I had selected it, and followed all the other steps, I tested it out, having linked the new forum to the links page, that worked for me logged in as Admin, but once I logged out, although the 'Downloads' forum I have added isn't viewable, if I know the link (which users could pass onto non-users) I was still able to view the links page that way, AND to download the files still.

I've been over it all several times and still can't fathom out why it's still allowing access to the links page and letting guests download the files...

Hey, I'm sorry about the extra work - perhaps you could pm me with your board details - ideally with an admin username and password - and I'll take a look.

Andrew

I'd love it even more if I could give the linked subforum a custom name :)

Reason being .. a lot of my link cats are called the same as the forum I'm linking them to .. and it looks "silly" to have a subforum of the same name as the one above on the forums front page ..

Maybe make it that it grabs the cat name and calls the linked subforum "catname links" .. or something? ..

I prefer the custom option mind .. ;)

I guess I could just go into admincp and change the name .. but that seems just that bit too easy .. heh .. :p

Thanks,

Taking your three posts together:
- Sorting by rating requires a mod to the database tables, so I'll leave these two for now
- Have fixed some of the others (new entry, sort by, send to friend)
- Am still thinking about the rest

Watch this space...

Version 1.55a has now been posted as the supported release of this hack. Please report any problems.

Bugs reported in the beta 1.55 have been fixed if I could duplicate them. A couple of Slave's suggestions have been handled as well:

Bug - Cats with new entries say "(New Entry )" next to the description .. (fixed, shows date as well)

Suggestion - New link in cat makes sub-cat show in bold in the main cat's description? (implemented)

Bug - I like the "send to a friend" idea .. but when you click on it the pre-filled text is relating to a music file?.. (text corrected)

Bug - "Sort by" links don't seem to work in the "What's new" page, etc (fixed)

Question - what is "Apply parent also to its current links" for? (text changed - should be clear now - allows admins to mass change permissions)

Suggestion - Give the linked subforum a custom name (done)

Suggestions about showing "Show well rated" and "Sort by rating" will have to wait - they require changes to the database

hi,
today i've installted this mod, and i'm very glad that it work?s so good!
but there is a great bug in it. in my link & file database just special usergroups can view& download something. guest or "normal" users cannot download anything. but if they click onto Show->hottest files (or something), they can see the files too.

and i would offer you to translate your hack into german, if you say me where to translate what ;) i've changed the templates, but it seems, that this wasn't all, there are still english words...

regards
lee

Will investigate the bug - thanks

If you've just installed the latest version (1.55), then all the text in the main part of the hack is handled using the standard VB phase system, and you will find everything in local_links_phrases.xml. The admin page is not phrased - everything is in the templates and code, and I'd advise you not to try to do anything with these.

hi andrew,
ok i will download the new version and take a look at the .xml
i think it should be no problem then to translate it. are you interested in a german version? i could send you the german-xml if you want. but first i should take a look at it now ;)

maybe (if everything works fine) it's finished tonight...

rds
Lee

That would be great, thanks.

I can't reproduce the bug you report. Can you try again using the new release (v1.55) - and pls confirm that you are using the forum permission system to define which usergroups are allowed to see/dowload links? The permissions that are set on the links/files admin page are about who can enter/edit/delete links, not about who can view them.

AndrewD:

I know this thread would quickly get really cluttered if everyone who installed this hack thanked you again with each new release.

But, this is a superb hack! And you are just making it better and better.

So, thank you for your hack and your on-going support. U da man!