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.

[Gsmdenis]

The first ,very nice for the new ver. release, BTW, better make/add new function that can download the SW form server by direct ? that 's mean just need setting the URL in admincp/download option.

Eg. for IIS server , d:/software/VBBfiles then can preview/download all the files in Vbb download section !

BR.,

Denis

[obmob]

I upgraded my online site... and i got an error while updating (see attachment), then in admin i see something similar.

local_file_root Sitio web 
local_file_root_prefix 
  (no establecido) not established
Carga de Archivos Permitido - Upload files Allowed
upload_dir 
  dll/usrupl/ 
thumbs_dir 
  (no establecido) 
file_icons_dir 
  images/icons/dll/  
PHP 4.4.4  
allow_url_fopen S? - Yes
cURL S? 
GD2 S? 
open_basedir '.:/proc/uptime:/tmp:/home:/usr/local/lib/php:/nfs/home:/usr/home:/usr/local/bin/' 
post_max_size 8M 
upload_max_filesize 2M  
MySQL 4.1.21-standard  
wait_timeout 200

Did i miss something? Oo

It didn't happen when i was testing on my local server. >.<

I've been lokking around and everything seems to be working

[Slave]

Hi AndrewD

Just installed the latest version of 2.2.7 and I'm now seeing some strange behaviour when trying to edit links .. It's either going very slow and just showing a blank page or I'm getting a "The page cannot be displayed" message within IE ..

I've just upgraded my web server and am now using PHP 4.3.9 and MySQL 4.1.20

Oh .. seems like the "Add Entry" link is doing the same thing ..

[Slave]

Just seen in links_linkbit_table .. seems there are 2 date fields? Any reason why?

[Slave]

In advanced search ..

Any reason why the Search Text box is multi lined? .. you enter some text, press enter and it gives a new line .. instead of searching as I would expect.

Also .. is there is a size limit? as it doesn't seem to find 3 letter words. any way to change this?

Thanks

[AndrewD]

Originally Posted by obmob

I upgraded my online site... and i got an error while updating (see attachment), then in admin i see something similar.

Did i miss something? Oo

It didn't happen when i was testing on my local server. >.<

I've been lokking around and everything seems to be working

It's just a warning - the setting of open_basedir limits the parts of your web server that php scripts can access, and you can inadvertently try to get LDM to use parts that are blocked. If everything's working ok, no need to be concerned.

[AndrewD]

Originally Posted by Slave

Just seen in links_linkbit_table .. seems there are 2 date fields? Any reason why?

date and moddate - one says when the entry was posted, the other when it was (last) moderated. Both are needed to keep things working.

[AndrewD]

Originally Posted by Slave

In advanced search ..

Any reason why the Search Text box is multi lined? .. you enter some text, press enter and it gives a new line .. instead of searching as I would expect.

Also .. is there is a size limit? as it doesn't seem to find 3 letter words. any way to change this?

Thanks

It's ajax-enabled to catch keywords, and I didn't get round to sorting out how to get the vb ajax code working with text inputs rather than boxes. One of those things that I may sort out - I agree with you...

There are two search mechanisms built into LDM, which use the alternative LIKE and FULLTEXT features in SQL. By default, it uses fulltext, which is generally faster and more powerful, but has some strange restrictions built in when the server is configured. One is to ignore short and common words.

You can go to the ldm/admin and switch over to using LIKE searches, which for your site should be fine.

[AndrewD]

Originally Posted by Slave

Hi AndrewD

Just installed the latest version of 2.2.7 and I'm now seeing some strange behaviour when trying to edit links .. It's either going very slow and just showing a blank page or I'm getting a "The page cannot be displayed" message within IE ..

I've just upgraded my web server and am now using PHP 4.3.9 and MySQL 4.1.20

Oh .. seems like the "Add Entry" link is doing the same thing ..

Can I take a look?

[AndrewD]

Originally Posted by itsblack

Hi Andrew, thank you very much for this great mod. I've been used it for a long time. Now I upgrade to 2.2.7, and translate it into chinese. [Simplified Chinese, use UTF-8 encode]

I have a little problem with the "Autocreate threads". The Image URL in the auto-created thread is not correct. But the images in LDM are totally correct. My vb path is www.mysite.com/forum, and I installed the LDM under the forum, but the image URL just lack of "forum". Only when I change the script, namely includes/local_links_misc.php, it goes to work. What I changed was line 1447:

PHP Code:

$imglink = '[img]'.mk_file_name($vbulletin->options['homeurl], $linkimg).'[/img]'; 


here homeurl replace with bburl.

But I don't know if it is a bug or it only occurs by me. btw, I use the IIS server, and in the 2.2.6 stage it has the same problem. The other related settings are:
local_file_root = no
local_file_root_prefix = forum
upload_dir = /LDM/upload

It's a bug on my part - this code is ignoring that you've got local_file_root_prefix set. Switching from homeurl to bburl corrects that. Thanks, and thanks for the translation.