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.

[|oR|Greg]

Originally Posted by AndrewD

this is do-able. will post the add-on soon.

WAHOOOOOOOOO!

[MythoLogy]

Awesome job AndrewD - this mod is simply amazing. So much to it.

[AndrewD]

Originally Posted by |oR|Greg

WAHOOOOOOOOO!

Try this if you dare...

Upload as a new plugin - you need the existing autocreate extra installed.

If someone adds a comment/rating
- to an entry which has already had a thread autocreated
- and the thread still exists and is correctly identified in the entry's description
- and the commenting user has permission to post in that thread
- and a few other things

then the new comment/rating will also be posted to the thread

Let me know if it works ok.

[|oR|Greg]

Can't. Host decided to start my upgrade without informing me. Sigh. So.. I'm down for 4-24 hours, until DNS updates. Thanks in advance though!

[Slave]

Originally Posted by AndrewD

Try this if you dare...

Upload as a new plugin - you need the existing autocreate extra installed.

If someone adds a comment/rating
- to an entry which has already had a thread autocreated
- and the thread still exists and is correctly identified in the entry's description
- and the commenting user has permission to post in that thread
- and a few other things

then the new comment/rating will also be posted to the thread

Let me know if it works ok.

Andrew .. Does this work as per the wish list entry .. ?

Integrate comments system with forums - plug in provided to autocreate threads - Couldn't the autocreate-threads extra be changed to just create a thread once a comment had been made. At which point LDM would know the thread id and then be able to keep an eye on things like the amount of posts/comments as well as the rating the thread has been given (and therefore the rating for the entry) .. ?

If it doesn't could you explain the differences please? Thanks

[|oR|Greg]

Site is upgraded, and DNS is up to date for me. Trying it now. In the mean time... the thingy for the auto-thumbnail website whatever (the reason I moved servers PHP version 5.1.6) is still not working. Sigh.

[|oR|Greg]

The Thread/Comment works, however I noticed it's a 1 way thing. Anyway to parse the thread and have it's comments pulled into LDM as well, so it's 2-way?

Also, I had a bad IMG when it tried to pull in the RATING.
Because I use full paths for my image paths (since I use vBA and it solves a lot of problems) I had to eliminate this in the plugin.

PHP Code:

.$vbulletin->options['bburl']."/" 


[|oR|Greg]

Something else I noticed, the ratings don't actually count toward the post, they're just a GIF in the reply. Can these be sync'd, or optionally eliminated per category or something?

Andrew what I'm looking for is like... well... nothing short of a miracle. Total integration of LDM... so get to it already!

[|oR|Greg]

<a href="https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost.php?p=1150248&postcount=32" target="_blank">https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showp...8&postcount=32</a>

[AndrewD]

Originally Posted by |oR|Greg

Something else I noticed, the ratings don't actually count toward the post, they're just a GIF in the reply. Can these be sync'd, or optionally eliminated per category or something?

Andrew what I'm looking for is like... well... nothing short of a miracle. Total integration of LDM... so get to it already!

I've tried to avoid total integration with the vb posting system, as it makes ldm very sensitive to changes in the vb code. The vb guys are good about about keeping the guts of vb stable, but there are often changes within the layers on top, like posts, ratings, etc.

I'll add these things you suggest to the list - I think they are all do-able- but they are not an immediate priority to work on.