[AndrewD]

As per PM, just for the record...

Originally Posted by Rouzbeh1

hi
i have two problems with LDM.
1 - when forum is turned OFF LDM doesn't work how it should or i may have forgotten to turn on some options. (entry thumb can't be shown in portal and also thread. it can not find the image somehow....)
if you need some more details or access to my site, please let me know.

Boy, the first problem (images not shown when forum turned off) is a bit obscure...

The image that is shown on the portal is actually constructed "on the fly", not read directly from the file. The script that creates it (local_resize.php) is being told that your forums are switched off, so does not run.

The fix is to edit local_resize.php, find the line

define('SKIP_SESSIONCREATE', 1);

and comment it out, i.e.

// define('SKIP_SESSIONCREATE', 1);

I'll fix this in the next release.

2 - Bandwidth Usage is not working for me at all ( per file & per size in Bytes)

As far as I can see this working correctly. I gave your (my) usergroup an allowance of 1 file and 292K per day, downloaded benjamin once, then tried to download it a second time and it told me that I had used up all my allowances.

LDM deliberately allows you to exceed your bandwith allowance with the current transfer, i.e. if downloading the file will take you over the allowance, that's ok, but it will not start the download if the allowance is already exceeded.


Another point - for your sample download (benyamin.zip), you had set up both the entry and the image using a full url to your own site. This works, but it will be *much* more expensive in server load than giving just the filename relative to your site, i.e. just as /downloads/music/albums/benyamin/Benyamin - 85.zip. I've edited the example to show you what I mean. This downloads faster and places less load on your server.

feature request for new versions:
1 - adding 2 or more links for each entry (mirror choose)

thanks in advance

Noted - several people have asked for this - it requires a bit of redesign to do this cleanly, so I will think whether/how to best handle your request.

Let me know that everything is now ok.