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.

[coolgus]

Congrats for this amazing product. Two questions though

1. Can I disable the keyword function ? I am trying to edit some files and asks me for a keyword everytime even though I didn't give one when I created the entry

2. Is there any easy way to add a new field when create/editing an entry so I can give a url with the official site of it ? If it's easier, keyword function could be changed so I have the source url instead

Thank you in advance

[AndrewD]

Originally Posted by coolgus

Congrats for this amazing product. Two questions though

1. Can I disable the keyword function ? I am trying to edit some files and asks me for a keyword everytime even though I didn't give one when I created the entry

2. Is there any easy way to add a new field when create/editing an entry so I can give a url with the official site of it ? If it's easier, keyword function could be changed so I have the source url instead

Thank you in advance

1) This should be disabled by default. Check whether you've inadvertently enabled the *must_add_keyword* permission.

2) Not currently. Additional fields is something that has been requested for some time but has not been implemented yet - I'm waiting for proper inspiration! But it stays on the list.

[AndrewD]

I was sorry to discover that the online wiki for LDM got hacked this week. So I've decided to disable new account creation on the site, as well as anonymous editing. This will make it harder to improve the manual, but that's life.

[saltvattensakva]

hard to uninstall and the uninstall script does not delete all changes and files.
aint possible to remove from admin cp->plugin/product manager.
++++ing terrible to uninstall.

[coolgus]

Andrew I try to have latest "Show What's New" in joomla. I'm only interested for the titles of links and nothing more. Also I would like to being able to exlude some categories.

Could you tell me which is the query which is needed ? I had a look at ldm_new.module but couldn't find anything

[AndrewD]

Originally Posted by saltvattensakva

hard to uninstall and the uninstall script does not delete all changes and files.
aint possible to remove from admin cp->plugin/product manager.
++++ing terrible to uninstall.

Thank you for your polite description. It's perfectly possible to do what you want, and quite straightforward too. If you take a look at the on-line documentation, you'll find an explanation of what to do.

The reason why the uninstall script does not simply delete all the database tables and files is because it is too easy to have accidents - either of one's own causing or because someone vandalises your board.

[AndrewD]

Originally Posted by coolgus

Andrew I try to have latest "Show What's New" in joomla. I'm only interested for the titles of links and nothing more. Also I would like to being able to exlude some categories.

Could you tell me which is the query which is needed ? I had a look at ldm_new.module but couldn't find anything

you need something like the following:

select links.linkname as linkname, links.linkdate as linkdate, ltoc.catid as catid 
from local_linkslink as links
left join local_linksltoc as ltoc
on links.linkid = ltoc.linkid
where ltoc.catid NOT IN (10,11,12)
order by linkdate desc

replace 10,11,12 by the catids you want to omit

[GTRyan]

On my statistics hit parade menu on the LDM main page one of my downloads for a video .wmv file started going down when it got to about 2500 hits, the counter on the download info itself is correct though, using 3.6.8 post 1.

http://alamoride.com/forum/local_links.php look at the file alamoride_murillo_star_car_2_fab2startup info

[AndrewD]

Originally Posted by GTRyan

On my statistics hit parade menu on the LDM main page one of my downloads for a video .wmv file started going down when it got to about 2500 hits, the counter on the download info itself is correct though, using 3.6.8 post 1.

http://alamoride.com/forum/local_links.php look at the file alamoride_murillo_star_car_2_fab2startup info

There are two records of hits inside LDM. The entry itself keeps a record of the total number of hits (but nothing more - no information on who/when/etc). This information is kept permanently. The downloads table keeps a full record of all accesses, but, because the table can become very large, you have the option to 'prune' it after a certain length of time (LDM/admin/settings/prune_downloadtable).

The hit parade is produced by reading the downloads table, so, if you have told LDM to prune this table, you will eventually start losing hits off the beginning. I suspect this is the source of your problem.

[GTRyan]

ah one thing I was thinking, does the hit parade only show the downloads counts for the last 30 days? Then so its not showing the total since the file has been there right? Then if so that cool then cause its been dropping daily as the video is getting older.