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 Slave

btw .. did you ever get anywhere with enabling the "forumbit_display" plugin to look into subcats for latest link info?

Not as far as I can see/recall.

[EasyTarget]

Originally Posted by AndrewD

Probably. What you want is a box across the top of a forum that displays thumbnail images from LDM? Give me a few more details.

ok, dunno what others want, but for me I envision a box where I can specify the thumbnail size, the category/categories that the images get pulled from, how many thumbnails to fit in a row, and whether it pulls the images randomly, from newly submitted images or both. I don't really want the details, just the picture.. maybe a mouseover will bring up the name of the picture or other info and clicking on it would bring them to the ldm details page with the image.

Maybe categories that are setup using the image layout could have a preview of the previous and next image below the current image as well.

I would use it on the forumhome but maybe others would find it useful for the vbadvanced as well.

[kylek]

Just started to get this error:

Database error in vBulletin 3.6.0:

Invalid SQL:

UPDATE local_linkslink
SET linkstatus=-1, linkcheck=
WHERE linkid='14'
LIMIT 1;

MySQL Error : You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near 'WHERE linkid='14'
LIMIT 1' at line 3
Error Number : 1064
Date : Wednesday, August 16th 2006 @ 02:28:24 PM
Script : http://www.xxxxxxxxxxx.xxx/forum/loc...catid=7&page=1
Referrer : http://www.xxxxxxxxxxxxx.xx/forum/lo...inkid=4&page=1

Is this something to do with the 2 way auto create threads?

[Code Monkey]

local_resize.php throws a big ugly url up in who's online. I got rid of it by adding this after define('THIS_SCRIPT', 'local_resize');

define('SKIP_SESSIONCREATE', 1);
define('SESSION_BYPASS', 1);
define('NOCOOKIES', 1);
define('DIE_QUIETLY', 1);
define('SKIP_DEFAULTDATASTORE', 1);

Plus it's more efficient as it keeps many vb functions from running when they are not needed.

[AndrewD]

Originally Posted by kylek

Just started to get this error:

Database error in vBulletin 3.6.0:

Invalid SQL:

UPDATE local_linkslink
SET linkstatus=-1, linkcheck=
WHERE linkid='14'
LIMIT 1;

MySQL Error : You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near 'WHERE linkid='14'
LIMIT 1' at line 3
Error Number : 1064
Date : Wednesday, August 16th 2006 @ 02:28:24 PM
Script : http://www.xxxxxxxxxxx.xxx/forum/loc...catid=7&page=1
Referrer : http://www.xxxxxxxxxxxxx.xx/forum/lo...inkid=4&page=1

Is this something to do with the 2 way auto create threads?

Thanks for reporting this. It's a coding bug which is hit in an unusual situation

I thik you'll find that one or more of your entries is associated with a forum that no longer exists. You can find out which by going to LDM/admin/categories then mass edit for each of your categories in turn.

[AndrewD]

Originally Posted by Code Monkey

local_resize.php throws a big ugly url up in who's online. I got rid of it by adding this after define('THIS_SCRIPT', 'local_resize');

define('SKIP_SESSIONCREATE', 1);
define('SESSION_BYPASS', 1);
define('NOCOOKIES', 1);
define('DIE_QUIETLY', 1);
define('SKIP_DEFAULTDATASTORE', 1);

Plus it's more efficient as it keeps many vb functions from running when they are not needed.

Thanks

[kylek]

Originally Posted by AndrewD

Thanks for reporting this. It's a coding bug which is hit in an unusual situation

I thik you'll find that one or more of your entries is associated with a forum that no longer exists. You can find out which by going to LDM/admin/categories then mass edit for each of your categories in turn.

Thank you!! I had changed some settings around and thought I had them right.

[AndrewD]

As an experiment, I've created a Wiki for the LDM user manual.

I'd appreciate some feedback on whether this is a useful way to keep the documentation up to date and gather ideas, bugs, problems, etc.

http://www.eirma.org/wikis/index.php...nloads_Manager

It isn't a replacement for vb.org, but it may be more convenient for some things.

[Code Monkey]

I notice that when I customize an option per category that you are adding an inline css value for background. If it's a dark skined site and the text is light this makes it hard to read. I would suggest a better method would be to just change the class to class="inlinemod" which is a default vb class and good styles will have the appropriate highlight colors.

[AndrewD]

Originally Posted by Code Monkey

I notice that when I customize an option per category that you are adding an inline css value for background. If it's a dark skined site and the text is light this makes it hard to read. I would suggest a better method would be to just change the class to class="inlinemod" which is a default vb class and good styles will have the appropriate highlight colors.

Unfortunately, I need two styles, customised and customised in parent category. I'll give this some thought - your basic point is correct.