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.

[Majed37]

Hi all, I have installed and used LDM just yesterday.. it's good product.

But I have some questions and I hope you will help me ..

1- My language is Arabic, and i didn't find a complete translation for it. And I can do the translation proccess easly but I don't know how !!

2- Can I choose to upload files to another palce ( not my forums folder) ? I meant the files/entries which users will upload.

3- Can I show the real link for uploaded files to the user who uploaded it. so he/ she can use this link in his posts in the forums. if so , how ?

I'll be thankfull if found the answers here.

[Slave]

That seems to of done the trick Thanks Andrew

[Kwak]

1. If your board is located in ...com/board/, can you install LDM in ...com/linkDirectory/ ?

2. Can you install this product once and use it for different sub-directories like ...com/links/ ...com/directory/ ....com/gallery/ with no additional install and database installs?

Thank you in advance.

[AndrewD]

Originally Posted by Majed37

1- My language is Arabic, and i didn't find a complete translation for it. And I can do the translation proccess easly but I don't know how !!

Look in the zip file that you downloaded in the directory development/phrases. You will find a file phrases-ar.xml. This has the start of the Arabic translation. Basically you have to edit everything in the CDATA tags, for example:

<phrase name="ldm_homepage"><![CDATA[Home Page]]></phrase>

Here you replace "Home Page" by whatever it should be.

When you have finished, you can import the phrases into your own boad using the VBulletin admin languages section. Please post the file here, and I will include it in the main release in future.

Originally Posted by Majed37

2- Can I choose to upload files to another place ( not my forums folder) ? I meant the files/entries which users will upload.

Yes. Go to the LDM admin/settings page. You will find a series of settings for file uploads. One of these, uploads_dir, tells LDM the base directory for storing the uploads.

There are two other settings, local_file_root and local_file_root_prefix, that you can to control more precisely where on your server this directory is placed. This is explained in the on-line user manual. Be careful with these settings unless you understand what you are doing.

Originally Posted by Majed37

3- Can I show the real link for uploaded files to the user who uploaded it. so he/ she can use this link in his posts in the forums. if so , how ?

The real link to display the entry is always of the form local_links.php?linkid=NN&catid=MM and the real link to access that link id always local_links.php?action=jump&id=NN&catid=MM (sorry about the inconsistency), with local_links.php in your forum directory.

At the time the linkbit is being built inside LDM (i.e. when the display pages are being constructed, NN and MM are held in two variables called $linkid and $catid. So you could modify the linkbit template to display this informatioin if you wish.

[AndrewD]

Originally Posted by Kwak

1. If your board is located in ...com/board/, can you install LDM in ...com/linkDirectory/ ?

Haven't tried this, but it should be straightforward. You would need to make a minor change to the coding to switch to the forum directory when running. Why would you want to do this? The files that LDM manages are not stored in your forums directory.

Originally Posted by Kwak

2. Can you install this product once and use it for different sub-directories like ...com/links/ ...com/directory/ ....com/gallery/ with no additional install and database installs?

Not easily. But you can always install LDM once and create a set of nested categories which use different styles and layouts suitable for different types of entry. You could then enable the search-engine friendly features (one setting in LDM and patch apache) to link directly through to these subcategories.

[Slave]

New feature suggestions ..

How about being able to link to RSS feeds? .. everything would be the same, apart from when you click on the feed link which would direct you to a LDM page where you would see content of the feed. I know we have "XML/RSS feeds in" in the wish list, but I see that more as an automated process of pulling in links from other LDMs.

The ability to "Spider" a link. This would be a link within the link bit which would go to the page linked and show all of the links linked from that page. I wouldn't expect that LDM would remember these spidered links, more just to see them and use them at that point. Not sure if that makes sense

The ability for the admin to set if a link entry can check to see if the site linked to is linking back to your site. This could be expanded to giving the site linking to you a link that LDM could pick up, keep count of the incoming hits and then redirect to the front page of the site.

[AndrewD]

Originally Posted by Slave

New feature suggestions ..

How about being able to link to RSS feeds? .. everything would be the same, apart from when you click on the feed link which would direct you to a LDM page where you would see content of the feed. I know we have "XML/RSS feeds in" in the wish list, but I see that more as an automated process of pulling in links from other LDMs.

The ability to "Spider" a link. This would be a link within the link bit which would go to the page linked and show all of the links linked from that page. I wouldn't expect that LDM would remember these spidered links, more just to see them and use them at that point. Not sure if that makes sense

The ability for the admin to set if a link entry can check to see if the site linked to is linking back to your site. This could be expanded to giving the site linking to you a link that LDM could pick up, keep count of the incoming hits and then redirect to the front page of the site.

These are good suggestions, thanks.

Someone suggested the last one some months ago (you'll find it in the wish list). I'm not entirely sure how to implement it, other than by spidering the site.

I did the guts of the 'tag cloud' last night - basically just pull out the keywords which are most frequently used. Clever formatting (big text, etc) is another thing - as soon as I start introducing fancy css formatting, someone will get upset because it doesn't work with their vb style

[Slave]

Originally Posted by AndrewD

These are good suggestions, thanks.

Someone suggested the last one some months ago (you'll find it in the wish list). I'm not entirely sure how to implement it, other than by spidering the site.

I did the guts of the 'tag cloud' last night - basically just pull out the keywords which are most frequently used. Clever formatting (big text, etc) is another thing - as soon as I start introducing fancy css formatting, someone will get upset because it doesn't work with their vb style

Ahh .. I must be going blind .. I like the suggested email feature, but I guess you would need to know the email address first.

But you need the formatting to be a tag cloud .. heh

Oh, and I've thought of something else. How about being able to pull the icon the web page uses to put into people favorites and then show it next to the link in the linkbit. I think it's called "favicon.ico" isn't it?

[Slave]

Am I right in thinking that the autocreate-threads extra creates a thread every time you add an entry?

I know that in the wish list there's a request to integrate comments into the forums. Couldn't the autocreate-threads extra be changed to just create a thread once a comment had been made. At which point LDM would know the thread id and then be able to keep an eye on things like the amount of posts/comments as well as the rating the thread has been given (and therefore the rating for the entry) .. ?

[j?rg]

hi,

Warnung: Unknown(includes/local_links_init.php): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /admincp/plugin.php(1924) : eval()'d code (Zeile 3)

Fatal error: (null)(): Failed opening required 'includes/local_links_init.php' (include_path='/usr/share/php/') in /srv/www/web1/html/teichforum.org/vb/admincp/plugin.php(1924) : eval()'d code on line 3

the file is in includes! what can i do? i cant install the produkt.xml !