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.

[Dr.NoTime]

Thanks again for a great program! Updated flawlessly.

[Nam]

I forgot how to mass adding media files on local sever on the same folder. I remember I could do this back to 2.1.1, could you remind me Andrew?

Originally Posted by AndrewD

It's certainly possible to consider a hack that will do this, but it's not called LDM I really don't want to start writing scripts to coordinate vbulletin amd other hosts.

I thought you don't have to do anything with LDM except programing a few php files to put on the remote server that allow main server to read it directly. You don't have to modify anything in current LDM, do you?

Thanks for all the help so far.

[Smooth Adam]

I'm trying to edit my settings and I get the following:

The resource cannot be displayed

The resource you are looking for cannot be opened by your browser.



I'm mainly wanting to use this for the Downloads area. Please help!

[AndrewD]

Originally Posted by Smooth Adam

I'm trying to edit my settings and I get the following:

The resource cannot be displayed

The resource you are looking for cannot be opened by your browser.



I'm mainly wanting to use this for the Downloads area. Please help!

From a quick Google search, this seems to be a problem linked to DNS settings and service providers. I've never seen this before with LDM.

[Smooth Adam]

Originally Posted by AndrewD

From a quick Google search, this seems to be a problem linked to DNS settings and service providers. I've never seen this before with LDM.

Alrighty... is there a way I can edit the settings manually?

[nanaimobar]

Just updated to 2.2.8. Thanks Andrew. No problems. Great work.

[AndrewD]

Originally Posted by Smooth Adam

Alrighty... is there a way I can edit the settings manually?

I'm sorry - I've no idea - these messages are not being generated within LDM. I'm quite willing to take a look at your site to see if there is anything obvious I can spot. If you want, send me a PM with details of a vb admin account.

[AndrewD]

Originally Posted by Nam

I forgot how to mass adding media files on local sever on the same folder. I remember I could do this back to 2.1.1, could you remind me Andrew?

By now, there are two ways - manual and automatic.

Manual is ldm/admin/categories/scan

Automatic is to set up a category (category tree) to synchronise with the directory/directories. This is explained in the wiki, http://www.eirma.org/wikis/index.php/LDM_Quick_Tutorial

[Ezswo]

Well, I must say that this is one hell of a add-on! I recently switched from using Integramod to VBulletin, and I missed a downloadsection in it, untill I found this add-on. And it's even more than I hoped for....very flexible!

So far I encountered just one 'problem' and that has to do with the hit-counter of my downloads or links. It doesn't show how many people downloaded a file of clicked on a link. It stays on "0" hits. I searched this topic to see if I could find a solution myself, but with no luck. What could this be?

Thanks!
Ezra

[AndrewD]

Originally Posted by Ezswo

Well, I must say that this is one hell of a add-on! I recently switched from using Integramod to VBulletin, and I missed a downloadsection in it, untill I found this add-on. And it's even more than I hoped for....very flexible!

So far I encountered just one 'problem' and that has to do with the hit-counter of my downloads or links. It doesn't show how many people downloaded a file of clicked on a link. It stays on "0" hits. I searched this topic to see if I could find a solution myself, but with no luck. What could this be?

Thanks!
Ezra

Two points to check. On the LDM/admin/permissions, check that you have *not* enabled *can_bypass_hit_recording*. On LDM/admin/settings, check that you have *not* set *force_redirect* to 2. These settings instruct LDM to bypass the whole hit recording process.

If you're ok on both of these, I'm happy to take a look at your site to investigate.