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.

[Zowners]

Thanks Andrew works great mate.

[imranbaig]

sorry I miss spelled my question I was mean this can DownloadsII and Links and downloads co-exists together?

[AndrewD]

Originally Posted by imranbaig

sorry I miss spelled my question I was mean this can DownloadsII and Links and downloads co-exists together?

I don't think there's any reason why not - I haven't tried it, but no-one has said otherwise.

[Zowners]

Sorry for being a pain but how can I change messages users get when they cant access downloads etc so I can make the error message more user friendly.

Cheers

[AndrewD]

Originally Posted by Zowners

Sorry for being a pain but how can I change messages users get when they cant access downloads etc so I can make the error message more user friendly.

Cheers

Most things in LDM - apart from a few 'mission critical failures' - use phrases that are manage inside the VBulletin phrasing system. Do a search in your vb/admincp/languages and phrases/search for the text you want to modify, then edit it as you wish.

If that doesn't give you the results you want, get back to me.

[|oR|Greg]

Permissions, Andrew... is there a better way to control who see's what content?

Currently if I choose not to allow a usergroup to be able to view the content of a link, they get prompted with a Registration window. But I really only wanted that for users that aren't logged in. I would like those that can click on a link, but are logged in, yet are not allowed to view the contents to get a custome per category message.

Also, a category password option would rock.

[kompakt]

As you mentioned, this is the way the links are parsed in the final 2.2.6 release.

Originally Posted by AndrewD

	if (HEADER_BEHAVIOUR == "inline") {
		@header("Content-disposition: inline; filename=".str_replace(" ", "_", $dfname)."");
	} else {
		@header("Content-type: application/x-download");
		@header("Content-disposition: attachment; filename=".str_replace(" ", "_", $dfname)."");
	}

This is still giving me problems in Firefox and users end up getting an html page if I have the hit-parade set to 0. My host does not add custom mime types, they are not known by the server and are defined on my .htaccess file. I have to keep the hit parade set to 1 for this to work since the location of the files is revealed, the browser picks up the correct mime-type from my .htacess file.

Is it possible to add them somehow into the mime-types in the local_links.php?

[AndrewD]

Originally Posted by kompakt

As you mentioned, this is the way the links are parsed in the final 2.2.6 release.

This is still giving me problems in Firefox and users end up getting an html page if I have the hit-parade set to 0. My host does not add custom mime types, they are not known by the server and are defined on my .htaccess file. I have to keep the hit parade set to 1 for this to work since the location of the files is revealed, the browser picks up the correct mime-type from my .htacess file.

Is it possible to add them somehow into the mime-types in the local_links.php?

I'm a little confused - sorry. First, I assume you mean the setting "force_redirect", not "hit_parade".

When force_redirect is set to 0, LDM behaves as follows:

- if the file type exists in the VBulletin attachment table, then the mimetype data set up in that table is used.
- otherwise, LDM issues a simple browser redirect.

So you should create new entries in VBulletin attachments table for each of the filetypes you want to deal with. The .htaccess mimetype data only comes into play when this is not available.

Now, there is a another problem with Firefox: When you do a "right click/save link as", Firefox does not 'pre-fetch' any information before processing the 'save as' command. As a result, you end up downloading a "scriptname.php" file containing html, rather than (e.g.) the correctly named mp3 file. This has been long discussed on the Firefox development forum - it's a deliberate design choice on their part to speed up processing. It's one area where IE does (in my opinion) a better job.

Am I missing something?

[AndrewD]

Originally Posted by |oR|Greg

Permissions, Andrew... is there a better way to control who see's what content?

Currently if I choose not to allow a usergroup to be able to view the content of a link, they get prompted with a Registration window. But I really only wanted that for users that aren't logged in. I would like those that can click on a link, but are logged in, yet are not allowed to view the contents to get a custome per category message.

Also, a category password option would rock.

I really wish that I had not decided to use forum permissions in the first place. Untangling the consequences has been a real nuisance.

I'll have to think about these suggestions - I agree with you, but need to see how to make this work without breaking something else.

[|oR|Greg]

Ok, thanks for responding. I'm going to post up instructions a little later on how to do the whole YouTube links integration.