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.

[General_]

Originally Posted by AndrewD

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

Great, Thank you!!

[femsawyer]

I recently upgraded my forums from 3.07 to 3.6.8 and the ldm from version 1.6 to 2.2.8

I'm having a problems with being able to edit an entry - even entries that I've submitted. I'm getting 2 different results on 2 different computers both of which using Firefox, so I'm not sure where the problem lies.

On one computer, when I click on the edit icon, a box pops up wanting me to save local_links.php

On the other one, it takes me to a blank page

What could be the cause of this?

[GrendelKhan{TSU]

hey hey long time over here.


ok weird problem/bug

1. no matter what I do I can't get the enlarged original pic to work. it worked once and used to work long time ago, but ever since the last few updates: LDM posts the thumbs, but no magnifying glass and no full size image (which is too bad as that was good seo for me )

I haven't made any template edits or extra mod (all via ldm admin)

any ideas what could be causing the problem?

2. also, found a bug.... once you choose "only for this category" for an upload... you can't get it back to "for all categories".

ps. that said, LDM is still add-on leet PWNAGE!! andrew still has best support and mod around

[AndrewD]

Originally Posted by femsawyer

I recently upgraded my forums from 3.07 to 3.6.8 and the ldm from version 1.6 to 2.2.8

I'm having a problems with being able to edit an entry - even entries that I've submitted. I'm getting 2 different results on 2 different computers both of which using Firefox, so I'm not sure where the problem lies.

On one computer, when I click on the edit icon, a box pops up wanting me to save local_links.php

On the other one, it takes me to a blank page

What could be the cause of this?

I haven't tried an upgrade across so large a range of vb/ldm for some time, so I don't know what is going wrong. I'll try to rebuild a vb3.0.7 database to investigate this.

Although this is almost certainly not the underlying problem, since you are getting different results on different pcs, have you tried flushing the browser cache and have you tried with different browsers.

[AndrewD]

Welcome back!

Originally Posted by GrendelKhan{TSU

hey hey long time over here.


ok weird problem/bug

1. no matter what I do I can't get the enlarged original pic to work. it worked once and used to work long time ago, but ever since the last few updates: LDM posts the thumbs, but no magnifying glass and no full size image (which is too bad as that was good seo for me )

I haven't made any template edits or extra mod (all via ldm admin)

any ideas what could be causing the problem?

Which linkbit are you using? If you are using the standard (Modern) linkbit, check that these lines appear about 20 lines into the links_linkbit template

<if condition="$linkimgmag">
<br />
<div style="margin-top:3px"><span class="smallfont">$linkimgmag</span></div>
</if>

Also check that the links_imgmag template exists and looks like this:

<if condition="$linkimg">
<a href="$RESIZE_SCRIPT.php?linkid=$linkid&amp;size=<if condition="$links_defaults[link_imagemagsize]">$links_defaults[link_imagemagsize]<else />0</if>" rel="lightbox[show]" target="_blank" title="$vbphrase[ll_enlarge_thumb]">
<if condition="$ldm_icon_cache['magnify']"><img border="0" src="$ldm_icon_cache[magnify]" alt="$vbphrase[ll_enlarge_thumb]" /><else />[+]</if></a>
</if>

Originally Posted by GrendelKhan{TSU

2. also, found a bug.... once you choose "only for this category" for an upload... you can't get it back to "for all categories".

You means the 'display order' setting? I can't reproduce this problem.

[Alfa1]

I have successfully installed 2.2.8 on vb 3.6.8. After that I imported my database. (New server)
Now I get this error:

The following setting(s) are invalid
upload_dir : /forum/links/downloads/
Cannot access or create directory /forum/links/downloads/ [/var/www/html/forum/links/downloads/forum/links/downloads/]

The path to the download DIR is /domains/mydomain/public_html/forum/links
I tried entering the full path into upload_dir but that doesn't help. Please advise.

[auddi]

when i enabled upload feature, and tried to create an entry using uploading file, i get:
Upload error - unable to move the uploaded file on server.

What could this problem be? The file upload dir has 777 perm. Where is LDM trying to move the file to? Thanks.

[auddi]

Originally Posted by Alfa1

I have successfully installed 2.2.8 on vb 3.6.8. After that I imported my database. (New server)
Now I get this error:

The path to the download DIR is /domains/mydomain/public_html/forum/links
I tried entering the full path into upload_dir but that doesn't help. Please advise.

you need to make the dir's perm 777.

[femsawyer]

Originally Posted by AndrewD

I haven't tried an upgrade across so large a range of vb/ldm for some time, so I don't know what is going wrong. I'll try to rebuild a vb3.0.7 database to investigate this.

Although this is almost certainly not the underlying problem, since you are getting different results on different pcs, have you tried flushing the browser cache and have you tried with different browsers.

I tried with IE which I haven't used in months, cleared the cache anyway and when I click on the edit button, I get a IE cannot display the webpage.

[AndrewD]

Originally Posted by auddi

when i enabled upload feature, and tried to create an entry using uploading file, i get:
Upload error - unable to move the uploaded file on server.

What could this problem be? The file upload dir has 777 perm. Where is LDM trying to move the file to? Thanks.

Uploads are placed in a temporary directory by the server/php system, then moved by LDM to the directory you have specified. The error message comes from the system function that is trying to do this file move.

I thought that I had coded all the necessary checks on this - but

- Is your server running php in safe mode.
- Does your server have restrictions on the php open_basedir

(You can check both of these on the left column of the main LDM admin pages)