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.

[tamborinegal]

Originally Posted by AndrewD

Clancy, I took another look at the code that does the thread creation. I can't see the reason why it should work for an admin but not for a registered user, provided the forum is ok.

I'm sorry Andrew, it was my fault that this was happening. I was using a link that I had manually put in my template ?action=addlink - without the category id at the end... this was allowing the link to be submitted but it didn't autocreate the thread - your code works perfectly. Again, sorry.

Clancy

[PitchouneN64ngc]

AndrewD, thanks for 2.2.8 alpha release, I'm going to check phrases added or modified for translate again in French

[Rouzbeh1]

thanks for 2.2.8 Andrew
installed without any problems.
would it be possible to update to 2.2.8 official release from 2.2.8-alpha?

awesome job

[AndrewD]

Originally Posted by Rouzbeh1

thanks for 2.2.8 Andrew
installed without any problems.
would it be possible to update to 2.2.8 official release from 2.2.8-alpha?

awesome job

That's good. There will be no problems in updating to 2.2.8 official - it will work the same way as any upgrade. Let me know of any problems you encounter.

I have, by the way, already found one bug in the alpha code, which messes up attempts to change certain settings on the LDM/admin/settings page. If you hit an php error concerning a call to ldm_can_accesdir, just redownload the zip file and upload the new includes/local_links_misc.php in it.

[Slave]

Originally Posted by AndrewD

Re-uploaded 29/7/07 - fixed bug on admin/settings page

I think it's time to post the first alpha release of LDM 2.2.8. All the usual warnings apply - this is alpha, back everything up, don't use it on a live board, particularly if you want to provide gigabytes of downloads every day. However, I've been using it/developing it for some time and nothing has gone too badly wrong.

These are the main changes - there may be others which I've forgotten to list:

Lots of wonderful stuff

I welcome early remarks! - am taking a week's vacation next week, so please be patient for my reply.

Play play play!

I'll install 2.2.8 alpha and let you know if I find any bugs Andrew

[Rouzbeh1]

i have found a problem with one of extras. when i install Tag Cloud, table structure of admin settings gets messed....
and after i uninstalled it, it didn't remove it from admin settings....

mirror sites works PERFECT

about setting manual file size (to be able to manually add file size, if force_redirect is set to 1), will it be too much work to implement it into LDM? or make it available as an extra?

thanks for everything

[PlymWS]

Excellent product !

The only thing I can't see how you do is upload more than one image to a new thread.

I have only just installed the product so forgive me if I'm missing the obvious.

[Alfa1]

I have these forum tabs on my site. I apply conditionals to them, so that the tab that corresponds to the section of the site you are on gets highlighted.
To do this for LDM, I need to define what the cat id variables of LDM are.

I tried this, but this didn't work:

PHP Code:

<if condition="in_array($foruminfo[catid], array(126,39, 43))"><li id="active"><a href="http://www.mysite.com/forum/local_links.php?catid=126" id="active">Videos</a></li><else /><li><a href="http://www.mysite.com/forum/local_links.php?catid=126">Video</a></li></if> 


Andrew, could you please inform me of the cat id variables?

[Eccentricity]

Will 2.2.8 fix my fast forwarding issues?

[Eccentricity]

OK I upgraded and now I have an issue I didn't have before:

This shows up when I enter the admin area:

Possible inconsistencies between LDM and its environment
- Parameter upload_dir points to a non-existent or inaccessible directory /attachments (maybe check open_basedir?)
- Parameter file_icons_dir points to a non-existent or inaccessible directory images/ldm_icons/ (maybe check open_basedir?)
- Parameter thumbs_dir points to a non-existent or inaccessible directory /images/thumbs (maybe check open_basedir?)

When I try to save my settings changes I get this:

The following setting(s) are invalid
upload_dir : /attachments
Unable to find/create subdirectories in /attachments (trying /var/www/vhosts/my-domain.com/httpdocs/attachments) - check permissions

I went to php.ini and set open_basedir to: /var/www/vhosts/my-domain.com/httpdocs/

I did the same in httpd.conf:

<Directory /var/www/vhosts/my-domain.com/httpdocs/>
php_admin_value open_basedir /var/www/vhosts/my-domain.com/httpdocs/
</Directory>

I then restarted apache and after all this...it still gives me this error message when trying to save my settings.

Oddly enough, it still allows me to upload files and images and creates the thumbnails exactly as before. The front end seems to be working fine. I just can't alter and save my settings because of the error.

On a side note, the lack of fast forwarding in Windows Media persists.