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.

[AndrewD]

Originally Posted by maroceve

Hi there

2 BUGs : When i try to upload with a basic registered user it tells me that i the DATE IS WRONG ?

and also. The basic registered users don't have the option to change date when uploading the folder.

I am using the french translation.

Please test the basic account here are the login pass animal/animal

http://www.maroceve.com/forums/local_links.php

Thanks for the report. I thought I'd dealt with this problem, but obviously not. There's some code deep inside vb that catches and modifies time and date conversions.

Users can modify the time/date in LDM if you give them can_moderate_link permission.

[AndrewD]

Originally Posted by Yorixz

Little support request in addition to the other 100 pages of this topic; Where would I need to alter the plugin code of automatic topic generation?

On my forum I don't want users to be able to manually post in the board I'm using for the automatically generated topics (spam related issues), but this is currently required for the plugin to work. I can't find where to alter this in order to remove this functionality though.

includes/local_links_misc.php, around line 1330, function ldm_create_thread

there's a sequence

	$forumperms = fetch_permissions($forumid);
	if (!($forumperms & $vbulletin->bf_ugp_forumpermissions['canpostnew'])) {
		return;
	}

If you want to post in a blocked forum, I suspect that you'll have to modify this code to temporarily give the current user permission to post, otherwise the subsequent call to build_new_post will probably fail

[Demon fox]

Any news on my prob?

[Alfa1]

Andrew,

I asked you this by PM as well, but I think the answer to this question will be usefull to others:

I am very thrilled about the new video features in LDM. How do I change the video entries that I have in my LDM so that they'll be played in LDM, instead of linking to youtube, etc?

Edit: I did install the Flash-Sites plug in BTW. And a few work.

[AndrewD]

Hang on guys I can only sort out one thing at a time.... There's a little problem with French date and time settings which is driving me crazy at the moment.

[obmob]

Originally Posted by Demon fox

Hey is it possible to make it so that categorys have there own upload folder, so when a user uploads a file in a category it uploads into the folder set for it?

Sounds neat... i run something similar, of course i only allow my users to upload to one category, they i move everything one by one to the desired folder, not the best, but is working for me.

Originally Posted by AndrewD

Hang on guys I can only sort out one thing at a time.... There's a little problem with French date and time settings which is driving me crazy at the moment.

Don't give up!

[PitchouneN64ngc]

Originally Posted by AndrewD

Hang on guys I can only sort out one thing at a time.... There's a little problem with French date and time settings which is driving me crazy at the moment.

It's a problem with my translation or about your code Andrew?

For the date, the only thing I can give to you is the date function used. The locale is set to "french", and it use the strftime() PHP function. ( http://php.net/strftime ).

Maybe this can help you to understand the problem

[AndrewD]

Originally Posted by PitchouneN64ngc

It's a problem with my translation or about your code Andrew?

For the date, the only thing I can give to you is the date function used. The locale is set to "french", and it use the strftime() PHP function. ( http://php.net/strftime ).

Maybe this can help you to understand the problem

It's not a problem with your translation - the difficulty has been to get my code to work correctly with the vb code for all combinations of timezone, language settings and daylight savings time. This has only just become an issue, because some boards want to be able to guarantee to the hour when an item will become visible, with submitting users working in different timezones. I've been relying too much on vbdate() to sort things out - I think I've got it sorted out in my mind now.

[Yorixz]

Originally Posted by AndrewD

includes/local_links_misc.php, around line 1330, function ldm_create_thread

there's a sequence

	$forumperms = fetch_permissions($forumid);
	if (!($forumperms & $vbulletin->bf_ugp_forumpermissions['canpostnew'])) {
		return;
	}

If you want to post in a blocked forum, I suspect that you'll have to modify this code to temporarily give the current user permission to post, otherwise the subsequent call to build_new_post will probably fail

Thanks a lot for this help AndrewD, however, I'm still having one problem. Right now the threads are only generated when an administrator also fills in a valid forum. The feature I'm looking for is topic generation for everyone who submits a file (permissions should be handled now, but where can I find the code that handles what board to select (I want to change it to the one used for the view permissions). Thanks in advance.

[AndrewD]

Originally Posted by Yorixz

Thanks a lot for this help AndrewD, however, I'm still having one problem. Right now the threads are only generated when an administrator also fills in a valid forum. The feature I'm looking for is topic generation for everyone who submits a file (permissions should be handled now, but where can I find the code that handles what board to select (I want to change it to the one used for the view permissions). Thanks in advance.

includes/local_links_misc.php

function announce_link_in_forum

First parameter is the forumid of the forum in which to create the thread.