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]

can i ask for an additional image field?

I mean, i can enter a url for my thumbnail, and i would like to have also one field for a mid sized image.

This way, i could use smaller thumbs and in case i want to show a file description... well, in that page i'd display the mid sized image.

Pleeeease, please!!!

[zellvnn]

I will wait for the next version.........Thanks for ur hardwork.......

[AndrewD]

Some good news and some perhaps not so good news for you...

The first beta release of version 2.2.6 is now available. I believe it fixes the reported bugs and problems with 2.2.5 and it also includes a number of relatively obscure changes to deal with special situations that some of you have requested. These changes are described in the first post to this thread, and also in the online wiki.

I have tested this quite thoroughly, but it is certainly possible that there are new bugs...

The not-so-good news is that I am going on vacation tomorrow and will not be back until mid September, when - for a while - I will have only limited time to deal with this hack.

So, if anyone finds anything serious with 2.2.6 beta 1, it would be a good idea to tell me today, ideally before bed time

[AndrewD]

Originally Posted by obmob

can i ask for an additional image field?

I mean, i can enter a url for my thumbnail, and i would like to have also one field for a mid sized image.

This way, i could use smaller thumbs and in case i want to show a file description... well, in that page i'd display the mid sized image.

Pleeeease, please!!!

With 2.2.6, you can use urls like this to display the images any size you want (up to the size of the original picture):

http://yoursite/yourforum/local_resi...id=56&size=250

Inside the linkbit template, the linkid is available in the variable $linkid, so you can easily edit the template to display the image at a different size. Just put in an <img> tag pointing to this url.

[Erwin]

I was using vBA 2.1.0 and Links 2.2.1 with no problems.

I upgraded vBA to 2.2.0 and then Links to 2.2.5 - I get this error on vBa index:
=======================================
Unexpected critical failure
Critical Error: Links and Downloads Manager v.2.2.5 requires VBulletin version 3.5
=======================================

Any ideas?

[AndrewD]

Originally Posted by Jaxel

Hey Andrew... any possibility for an extra profile field for links? Just an extra field where I can store an additional piece of information, but not part of the description? So I can call this extra piece of information in a template somewhere?

I'll put this on the wish list. I'd like to do this cleanly, so that it doesn't become a problem later on when people start wanting to modify things...

[Code Monkey]

Enjoy your vacation.

[AndrewD]

Originally Posted by Jaxel

Hey Andrew, I noticed you fulfilled my request and set the hits grab at the beginning of a download instead of at the end, thus letting the "hits" system work for shared servers that how a low wait_timeout... However, I noticed that the system still holds a sustained connection in which I get an error report after 20 seconds (my wait_timeout setting). If the hits grab is now at the beginning of the file, is there still a need to sustain the connection which is killed off by wait_timeout?

Should be corrected in 2.2.6

[Erwin]

Should I try upgrading to 2.2.6 to see if that helps?

[AndrewD]

Originally Posted by Erwin

I was using vBA 2.1.0 and Links 2.2.1 with no problems.

I upgraded vBA to 2.2.0 and then Links to 2.2.5 - I get this error on vBa index:
=======================================
Unexpected critical failure
Critical Error: Links and Downloads Manager v.2.2.5 requires VBulletin version 3.5
=======================================

Any ideas?

Check that you've uploaded the latest includes/local_links_init.php. This has the following code to select the VB version:

PHP Code:

if (isset($GLOBALS['vbulletin']->db)) {
    $vb_version = substr($vbulletin->options['templateversion'], 0, 3);
    if ($vb_version == "3.5") {
        define('VALID_VB_VERSION', "3.5");
    } elseif ($vb_version == "3.6") {
        define('VALID_VB_VERSION', "3.6");
    }
} 


If that's installed correctly, then your site must be behaving differently than mine, and we need to get to the bottom of this.