Major Additions - DownloadsII

DownloadsII

DownloadsII is a download database that integrates into vBulletin. It allows you to upload files, add images to them, create categories, link to external files - and more. It is very flexible and has many options.

It's also coded 100% XHTML 1.0 Transitional valid, just like vBulletin itself.



Instructions & Support

Requires vBulletin 4.0.4 or higher. Not fully compatible with lower vB 4 versions.
It works fine with both the new editor in vB 4.1.4 or higher and the old one in previous vB versions.

Read the instructions in the next two posts before installing/upgrading this mod!

You can find an installation/upgrade manual in the zip package (Readme.txt).

I try to answer most questions asked in this thread. Please don't send any pm's if I don't ask for them. Don't forget to click the install link, so you will receive important update notifications.

Screenshots & Live demo

At the bottom of this post, you can find some screenshots of the front-end and back-end (AdminCP part) of the DownloadsII software.

You can find a live demo on my own site: Minatica.be Downloads (Dutch).
Though keep in mind that we are running a restyled and modified version of it.

Changelog (version 6.0.9)

Jelle

• Added support for vB 4.1.8 bit processing with 'each' construct (backwards compatible)
• Fixed comma listing for vB 4.1.8 (using "old" method)

Older changelogs are included in the zip package.

Help!!! I can't upload large files??

This is probably the most asked question. It's mostly caused by some default PHP settings: check "PHP Max Post Size" and "PHP Maximum Upload Size" at your AdminCP home.

Then have a look at this post for the solution to up these values.
Also have a look at this post at vB.com (but ignore the MySQL part as DownloadsII is only using the file system).

Add-ons

There are currently no official add-ons. Unofficial add-ons are listed below.

[Feechen]

Hi RS_Jelle,

You wrote

Originally Posted by RS_Jelle

• You can't use HTML any more in the category descriptions.

I have the problem that I've used a lot of HTML formatting in my category descriptions with the version 5.05. Since you have eliminated this feature in the current version , I am not even able to add a carriage return in order to show a textual paragraph. Can you give me a hint how I could solve the problem?

Do you intend to add the HTML feature again in the future?

Thank you in advance for your help.

Regards

[RS_Jelle]

Originally Posted by synseal

Don't know what I am doing wrong, upgraded to the latest version of this but all I keep getting is below whenever I try to upload file, I have the extensions set correct to allow .rar also.

Error! The upload failed (error type 1).

I tried this mentioned here but it makes no difference https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost....&postcount=309.

You have error type 1, that post you mention is about error type 2.
http://php.net/manual/en/features.fi...oad.errors.php

Value: 1; The uploaded file exceeds the upload_max_filesize directive in php.ini.

Pretty much self explaining. You need to up it using a .htaccess or in your php.ini

Originally Posted by Feechen

Hi RS_Jelle,

You wrote



I have the problem that I've used a lot of HTML formatting in my category descriptions with the version 5.05. Since you have eliminated this feature in the current version , I am not even able to add a carriage return in order to show a textual paragraph. Can you give me a hint how I could solve the problem?

Do you intend to add the HTML feature again in the future?

Thank you in advance for your help.

Regards

It's not really a feature, more a deliberate decision. But it's easy to change if you want. Just open downloads.php and find and remove this line of code:

PHP Code:

$cat['description'] = htmlspecialchars_uni($cat['description']); 


[synseal]

Originally Posted by RS_Jelle

You have error type 1, that post you mention is about error type 2.
http://php.net/manual/en/features.fi...oad.errors.php


Pretty much self explaining. You need to up it using a .htaccess or in your php.ini

Dont know where the php.ini is nor do I know what to add to it, I know where the .htaccess file is but what do I add to it.

I tried this in the .htaccess after reading vb.org but didnt' work.

php_value memory_limit 30M

Thanks.

[RS_Jelle]

Originally Posted by synseal

Dont know where the php.ini is nor do I know what to add to it, I know where the .htaccess file is but what do I add to it.

I tried this in the .htaccess after reading vb.org but didnt' work.

php_value memory_limit 30M

Thanks.

You need to add this:

php_value upload_max_filesize 30M
php_value post_max_size 30M

[Feechen]

Hi RS_Jelle,

It's not really a feature, more a deliberate decision. But it's easy to change if you want. Just open downloads.php and find and remove this line of code:

PHP Code:

$cat['description'] = htmlspecialchars_uni($cat['description']); 


Unfortunately this does not help. The problem is still the same. Is there anything else which I have to change?

Thank you for your help.

Regards

[synseal]

Originally Posted by RS_Jelle

You need to add this:

php_value upload_max_filesize 30M
php_value post_max_size 30M

Thank you Jelle, worked a treat :up:.

[sadiq6210]

Jelle, Are you planning to add new features and options in the next release?

[Feechen]

Hi RS_Jelle,

Originally Posted by RS_Jelle

It's not really a feature, more a deliberate decision. But it's easy to change if you want. Just open downloads.php and find and remove this line of code:

PHP Code:

$cat['description'] = htmlspecialchars_uni($cat['description']); 


I found out why it did not work. There is a second line which must be deleted:

PHP Code:

$sub['description'] = htmlspecialchars_uni($sub['description']); 


Now it is working

Thank you for your hint.

Regards

[Ophelia]

Originally Posted by obmob

I did it using the batch importer, after that, I modified each entry's date and dowload count. Now, I only had around 300 so, took me a couple days.

Did it bring over all the images that L&D had as well as the zips? I don't care about the date or the download count to be honest, I just need a way to get everything from there to something that is being updated on a regular basis.

[Kolbi]

I´m getting always the message:
"Your limited downloading things is reached" (or like this I´m working with a German translation) although I as Admin have no limitations???