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.

[Nam]

I already asked this but I guess you missed it, is it possible to enable both link protection on some categories and no protections on some file/categories?

The second question is that does LDM keep sleeping mySQL connections? My host says sometimes the server on a high load because of that reason. I'm not sure what's that mean but I wonder if it's necessary to keep those connections.

32k hits in 3 days

[albibak]

Originally Posted by PitchouneN64ngc

Hey AndrewD, there is the French translation with this post

Thanks for this translation Pitchoune

[AndrewD]

Originally Posted by PitchouneN64ngc

Hey AndrewD, there is the French translation with this post

Thanks!

[AndrewD]

Originally Posted by Nam

I already asked this but I guess you missed it, is it possible to enable both link protection on some categories and no protections on some file/categories?

The second question is that does LDM keep sleeping mySQL connections? My host says sometimes the server on a high load because of that reason. I'm not sure what's that mean but I wonder if it's necessary to keep those connections.

32k hits in 3 days

1) Yes.

As background, you can find out which settings/permissions can be set per-category as follows: a) Go to any of your categories, do edit/category, and look at the control settings and permissions tabs. If the setting/permission is listed on these pages, then the value for that category will override the global value in that category and in any child categories that do not set their own value. b) Alternatively, from version 2.2.8-post 1, look at the admin/settings and admin/permissions pages. If the setting/permission is colour coded yellow, then it is configurable per-category.

*force_redirect* is one such setting, so the answer to your first question is 'yes'.

2) LDM does nothing special with database connections. As far as I know, I'm using standard vbulletin procedures, including when LDM shuts down. However, I don't know what your site is using LDM to deliver - if you are supplying large video files, then there is likely to be be a long delay between starting to deliver the video and eventually closing down (and ? releasing the database connection). Consequently, if lots of people are using the site at once, then the number of simultaneous connections may be equally large.

As I've mentioned, I'm not an expert on MySQL, but I also wonder if your problem is related to the way your site is configured to handle so-called 'persistent connections'. This is a particular method for using the database. It is configured in (at least) two places - in the php.ini file and in the vbulletin config.php file - it's not something that LDM knows about or tries to do anything with. I suggest that you ask for help on the subject on vb.com or in the main vb.org programming/mysql forum.

[Willygsm]

Originally Posted by AndrewD

Try the following.

Go to your vb admincp, products and plugins.

Add new plugin

product - Links and Downloads manager

hook - ldm_admin_start

code: @ini_set('max_execution_time', 300);

plugin is active: yes

Now you should be able to get at ldm/admin/categories and tidy up.

Remember to turn off/delete the plugin when you've finished.

hi andrewD thanks for reply, problem still no solve.. after i click categories now it show only blanks. and i use latest LDM. Have anyway to delete the whole categories and resync again??

[AndrewD]

Originally Posted by Willygsm

hi andrewD thanks for reply, problem still no solve.. after i click categories now it show only blanks. and i use latest LDM. Have anyway to delete the whole categories and resync again??

I suspect that you are trying to sync a directory structure that is simply too large and complex for LDM to handle within the limits of resources that your web server will permit. When I took a look at your site, you had lots and lots of categories.

Unless you are already using LDM to offer a production service, I suggest that you simply delete all the LDM database tables (use phpmyadmin, etc) and start again by reinstalling the product via VB - it will automatically recreate these tables.

[Alfa1]

The phrase ldm_thread_create_body currently has the following content:

{5}
A new entry has been added to {4}

Description:
{2}

To check it out, rate it or add comments, visit {1}
The comments you make there will appear in the posts below.

What other variables can I use?

- Entries that are approved by a moderator, do not get a discussion thread posted by the member that entered the entry, but the discussion thread is posted in the name of the moderator approving the entry instead. How can I change this?

- Discussion Threads are not automatically added as subscribed threads.

- It would be great if a automatic thread prefix be set for discussion threads.

- Currently discussion threads are flooding my forums. More control on autocreate would be great. What do you think of a 'create discussion thread' button for entries that do not have discussion threads yet?
Another idea that i like is to send all discussion threads through vb's moderation queue, for approval by the moderator.

[yahoooh]

i still wait the features tha i requist and i think this great product need this new feature :
work in folder other than forum
so if the forum in folder www.site.com/forum
we can put this product in www.site.com/directory for example or any other folder
so this will make us using subdomain for it

thanks for this product and plz keep on

[Alfa1]

Originally Posted by AndrewD

When you are on the LDM main page, $viewcatid will be equal to -1
When you are viewing the results of a search, the variable $this_action will be equal to "show"
When you are inside LDM, $this_action is always set, and I imagine it's not set when you are in a forum

So I suggest you modify your forum tab code to say something like

PHP Code:

if condition="!$this_action and (THIS_SCRIPT=='index'  or in_array(..))">...</if> 


Thanks a lot! This works.

Originally Posted by AndrewD

Your LDM search check could be

PHP Code:

if condition="$this_action=='show')">...</if> 


If I add this including the

PHP Code:

) 


then vb gives me an error because there is no opening ( in the code. I can not leave it out either as that doesn't work. Can you please elaborate?

Originally Posted by AndrewD

Your LDM main page check could be

PHP Code:

if condition="$this_action=='links') and $viewcatid<0">...</if> 


I encounter the same problem here.

[SuperTaz]

Andrew, I get this error when I try to set the path for the images:

The following setting(s) are invalid
file_icons_dir : http://www.global-gamers.net/forums/images/icons/
Cannot find/read directory http://www.global-gamers.net/forums/images/icons/

Do I have to load them individually or load them all in a single folder to the icons folder?