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.

[obmob]

The best gallery i've known is 4homeapges, 4image has an incredible way to synch files... of course, i'm not a coder, so i've no ide if that would be useful for you Andrew.

Maybe you can take a look at it and see how that works.

http://www.4homepages.de/

You think we can have a plugin to show latest uploads in a box below or above the categories?

http://demo.4homepages.de/?l=english

An maybe also a random box!

thanks

[moon_spell]

wow installed but i dont know how to activate and use enhancements in Extras & development?! for example i would like to use tv channels or gallery ! how to install and manage them ?

thx

[AndrewD]

Originally Posted by Nam

Andrew, I found a minor size problem with the flash-based plug-in. The VEOH video player is bigger than YouTube player, is there anyway to specific the size of player for YouTube and VEOH?

I tried to increased the size in plug-manager to make it suit VEOH but then I increased the size of ALL Youtube files. Any guide to overcome this problem would be great!

I'm not sure why these sites are displaying at different sizes.

Anyway, as you discovered, by default all the flash players are set up to display at the size configured in *flash_sites_plugin.xml*, i.e. at 480x360.

You can change this on a per-player basis by editin the file includes/local_links_flashsites.php.

You'll find a series of declarations, such as the following for Veoh:

"Veoh" => array(
	"pattern" => "#http://www.veoh.com/videos/([a-z0-9]*)#i",
	"replace" => "$1",
	"iconpattern" => "#www.veoh.com/videos#",
	"icon" => "flv",
	"recordhitnow" => 1,
	"template" => '

<embed
	src="http://www.veoh.com/videodetails.swf?permalinkId=$url&id=1&player=videodetails&videoAutoPlay=0"
	width="$player_width"
	height="$player_height"
	bgcolor="#000000"
	type="application/x-shockwave-flash"
	pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" />

',
	),

Change statements like

	width="$player_width"
	height="$player_height"

replacing $player_height and $player_width as you wish.

[AndrewD]

Originally Posted by moon_spell

wow installed but i dont know how to activate and use enhancements in Extras & development?! for example i would like to use tv channels or gallery ! how to install and manage them ?

thx

You should ignore the development directory unless you are really keen - it contains the raw templates, phrases, etc, used to build the main product installer.

For each of the extras, there is a 'readme.txt' file in the subdirectory, which explains how to install it. In most cases, you do this by uploading the extra's xml file using vbulletin/admincp/products and plugins/download and upload plugin.

[Nam]

Veoh format is 540x438, they allow more resolution and unlimited file size, I guess that's why the different in window player.

I found and fixed it perfectly, thank you so much.

[hotwheels]

Can someone tell me how to play .flv movies..........i don't feel like reading all the posts....thanks

[AndrewD]

Originally Posted by hotwheels

Can someone tell me how to play .flv movies..........i don't feel like reading all the posts....thanks

Install LDM's JWPlayer addon, included in the release/extras directory.

Make sure you've defined mimetype information for flv in the vbulletin attachments table, or use the LDM add-mimetype addon to do this for you.

[hotwheels]

Okay, i added the jwplayer......but i didn't add the mimetype......I will do that today and see how it goes....

Thanks for the quick reply andrew......

hotwheels

[General_]

Hi Andrew,

is there a possibility to ban a group from LDM completly?
So the members of this group just see the vbulletin message when trying to enter ldm.php ?

Thanks!

[AndrewD]

Originally Posted by General_

Hi Andrew,

is there a possibility to ban a group from LDM completly?
So the members of this group just see the vbulletin message when trying to enter ldm.php ?

Thanks!

Easiest wasy is with a short plugin, see http://www.eirma.org/wikis/index.php..._access_to_LDM