Major Additions - Links and Downloads Manager

Version 2.3.0 of LDM is now the official release. This works with both VB3.7 and VB3.8. You can obtain it here

Version 2.2.8 remains available here, with limited support.

04.02.08: patch-cat.xml 'extra' uploaded - see first post for information

27.10.07: Version 2.2.8-post1 uploaded
French translation of product installer uploaded (other language translations are in the main release zip)

Remember to back up your current database tables before upgrading.

What this is and does

LDM is a general-purpose link and file manager, which handles user uploads and downloads in a flexible way. A range of media players is integrated into LDM and others are included as plugin extras. LDM is described below in the first post of this thread, which also contains a brief list of the currently-known bugs.

This release of LDM works correctly with all VB versions 3.6.x and recent versions of vbadvanced.

Documentation, screen shots, etc, are provided as a Wiki at http://www.eirma.org/wikis/index.php...nloads_Manager

Thank you to everyone who has tested, given suggestions, helped with the translations, etc.

[Slave]

Originally Posted by AndrewD

Here's another attempt at the local_link_search code. I haven't got a server running php 4 any longer, so can't test - grateful for assistance.

That seems to have worked .. thanks

Although I have noticed another problem .. whenever I click on a link that is using the "Short (Title + Thumb)" linkbit which then goes to the "Modern" linkbit it comes up with the following error ..

Fatal error: Call to undefined function: vbphrase() in /home/virtual/site101/fst/var/www/html/local_links.php on line 526

This is an override of the normal linkbit as it's the bit that I'm using as a contact directory.

[berayiwu5]

Originally Posted by AndrewD

Send me a PM with more exact details of what you want/how you want things to function - if it's easy, I'll do it.

Originally Posted by obmob

Oh i guess he means something similar to the hack made for vbgallery, you can put a line that counts the user entries, it displays a number and a link to the user's uploads or links.

A pic, this shows the link to gallery items for this user inside postbit template.

Andrew, I hope I'm not missing something here. When I click on the user name link in "Submitted by XYZ" for any given entry, it only leads to the vB stock "View Profile" page. I was hoping to see all the images or files (or at least a thumbnail of all the images or files) that XYZ has submitted. Now instead, I have to do a search to get a list of all the files XYZ has uploaded.

I guess what I want is that by clicking the username link in "Submitted by XYZ," I want to go to the local_links page of XYZ to see what images and files he/she has uploaded. If you could also implement what obmob has suggested, that'd be great too.

Oh. One more thing. Please correct me if I am wrong. I suppose I can't do multiple file or image upload at one time with LDM, correct? Many users, especially webmasters like myself, would like to upload multiple images or files all at once. If you have photos taken on a trip for instance, you don't want to upload them one by one. It would come in as very handy if users are allowed to upload multiple files all at once.

Thanks again Andrew for considering to incorporate these features into LDM.

[AndrewD]

Originally Posted by Slave

That seems to have worked .. thanks

Although I have noticed another problem .. whenever I click on a link that is using the "Short (Title + Thumb)" linkbit which then goes to the "Modern" linkbit it comes up with the following error ..

Fatal error: Call to undefined function: vbphrase() in /home/virtual/site101/fst/var/www/html/local_links.php on line 526

This is an override of the normal linkbit as it's the bit that I'm using as a contact directory.

Sorry about that. Edit local_links.php, go to line 526 and put a dollar sign in front of vbphrase and change the parentheses

		$hit = record_hit($vbulletin->GPC['linkid'], construct_phrase(vbphrase('ll_null_link', $viewlinkname)), $LINK_OK);

should be

		$hit = record_hit($vbulletin->GPC['linkid'], construct_phrase($vbphrase['ll_null_link'], $viewlinkname), $LINK_OK);

If only I had such Slaves in the office

[AndrewD]

Originally Posted by berayiwu5

Andrew, I hope I'm not missing something here. When I click on the user name link in "Submitted by XYZ" for any given entry, it only leads to the vB stock "View Profile" page. I was hoping to see all the images or files (or at least a thumbnail of all the images or files) that XYZ has submitted. Now instead, I have to do a search to get a list of all the files XYZ has uploaded.

I guess what I want is that by clicking the username link in "Submitted by XYZ," I want to go to the local_links page of XYZ to see what images and files he/she has uploaded. If you could also implement what obmob has suggested, that'd be great too.

In the 2.2.7 releases, there is a little magnifying glass just to the right of the username link in the main linkbits (see image). Clicking this takes you directly to a full list of all the entries submitted by that user.

Clicking on the username link itself in the linkbit does (as you say) go to the profile. However, if you enable *profile_ldmactivity* in the LDM settings, then the user's profile will include a list of recent hits and uploads (see second image).

So I guess all that's missing is to add another item as ObMob suggests in the postbits, and this would be a simple icon + url. The required url is "local_links_search.php?action=show&userid=N&sort= desc"

Originally Posted by berayiwu5

Oh. One more thing. Please correct me if I am wrong. I suppose I can't do multiple file or image upload at one time with LDM, correct? Many users, especially webmasters like myself, would like to upload multiple images or files all at once. If you have photos taken on a trip for instance, you don't want to upload them one by one. It would come in as very handy if users are allowed to upload multiple files all at once.

Thanks again Andrew for considering to incorporate these features into LDM.

The standard add entry form only allows one upload at a time. I haven't added the possibility to upload multiple entries, partly because it's not clear what that should do - create one entry associated with several files (which some people have asked for) or create multiple entries that have the same description and other information.

By far the easiest way to handle regular multiple uploads is as follows:
- use an FTP client to upload the files into a subdirectory on your server
- set up an LDM category to autosynchronise with that directory
- turn on synchronisation on the LDM admin settings page

You can, by the way, set things up to synchronise a whole directory tree with categories and subcategories.

[TheWhite]

Urgent help needed

I've installed Version 2.2.6 a couple of months ago but only tested it now because i had to upload all the files first anyway i have just 1 problem and here it is:

I have set the download limit to 1 file, I have set the download limit at 100mbs but whichever one the two limits that i use the users continue to have unlimited download capabilities meaning the bandwidth and/or file limit are not being considered at all, can someone please help me?

Best Regards

[mauro1947]

Hi!
We are working with limits and have no problem.
Do you tick the checkboxes near the limits?
Thanks
Bye!

[TheWhite]

yes sir, i wrote it above.

[TheWhite]

Urgent help needed

I've installed Version 2.2.6 a couple of months ago but only tested it now because i had to upload all the files first anyway i have just 1 problem and here it is:

I have set the download limit to 1 file, I have set the download limit at 100mbs but whichever one the two limits that i use the users continue to have unlimited download capabilities meaning the bandwidth and/or file limit are not being considered at all, can someone please help me?

Best Regards

[AndrewD]

Originally Posted by TheWhite

Urgent help needed

I've installed Version 2.2.6 a couple of months ago but only tested it now because i had to upload all the files first anyway i have just 1 problem and here it is:

I have set the download limit to 1 file, I have set the download limit at 100mbs but whichever one the two limits that i use the users continue to have unlimited download capabilities meaning the bandwidth and/or file limit are not being considered at all, can someone please help me?

Best Regards

Am happy to take a look at your site if you wish - send me a PM with details - I will need an admin account that has permission to add new plugins, so that if necessary I can install a debugger.

[Mupetz]

Can anybody make a short tutorial on HOW TO set the mod_rewrite to the script ?
The steps you made to make it work.
Please

Following the wiki instructions doesn't give me any positive results.
Yes, again, i'm using vbseo but the vbseo has nothing to do with this.

Andrew, the Bold quote didn't helped me at all.