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.

[AndrewD]

Originally Posted by xadoa

one more question for AndrewD,

can you parse the code that we can enter the link as the following format?

http://password:user@www.urlweb.com/files.zip ? since the files.zip is located on a server which has the htaccess protected to the outsiders.
for the RC version, I tried with this format, i alwasy got an error as link failed

Thank you
XD

LDM handles this ok as a general format, from what I can see. However, it isn't something that I've ever tested, so there may be something I've missed. Either send me a PM with a valid url including user and pawd, or bear with me until I have the chance to set up an htaccess protected corner on our site.

[AndrewD]

Originally Posted by xadoa

hi Andrew,

for the limit # of download per file basis doesn't seem to work for me.. i still can click as many time as I like on one files to be downloaded .. can u have a look ? or this is fixed in the Gold version? and how to upgrade this if i already have the database installed and running with the RC version ..

thanks
XD

I'm happy to take a look at your site - send me a PM with details of an admin username and pwd

To upgrade, you just re-upload the files from the /release/forum subdirectories and reinstall the product.xml file, telling VB to overwrite. You'll not lose anything.

[AndrewD]

Originally Posted by xadoa

one more question for AndrewD,

can you parse the code that we can enter the link as the following format?

http://password:user@www.urlweb.com/files.zip ? since the files.zip is located on a server which has the htaccess protected to the outsiders.
for the RC version, I tried with this format, i alwasy got an error as link failed

Thank you
XD

Just for the record - isn't the format http://userassword@www.urlweb.com/files.zip rather than http://password:user@www.urlweb.com/files.zip

[xadoa]

Hi AndrewD,

sorry about the format, i had the username the same as the password, so i might mistype on the format, but it should be ok if it works.. I will PM you the test file of the site i'm working on this format of url.

thank you.

[RaceJunkie]

How do you get the thumbnails to show beside each link?

Like here.
http://www.eirma.org/devel/LDM/index...ontents.html&1

thumbs_dir
Directory in which thumbnails are stored. NB: This must be within your website regardless of the setting of local_file_root, e.g. /images/thumbs, and must be writeable by the web server.

I have
forums/images/ldm_thumbs


What else do i need?

[AndrewD]

Originally Posted by RaceJunkie

How do you get the thumbnails to show beside each link?

Like here.
http://www.eirma.org/devel/LDM/index...ontents.html&1



I have
forums/images/ldm_thumbs


What else do i need?

ldm/admin/settings

set link_imagesize to the size you want these thumbs to be displayed

[RaceJunkie]

link_imagesize
0: No thumbnail displayed and data entry form does not offer image field. >0: Size in pixels of thumbnail image shown within linkbit. (Images are displayed at this size along the larger dimension)

I have 125 in the box

link_imagemagsize
Size in pixels of enlarged thumbnail image created with magnifier. 0: Show image at full size.

300 in the box

[AndrewD]

Originally Posted by RaceJunkie

I have 125 in the box



300 in the box

send me a pm with details of your site and an admin username and password - it's easier just to look...

[RaceJunkie]

doi havee to upload a thumb for each link? Or does it create one?

[AndrewD]

Originally Posted by RaceJunkie

doi havee to upload a thumb for each link? Or does it create one?

If you've given link_image_size a non-zero value, the 'add link' data entry form includes an extra field for an image url or upload, which is used to create the thumb. If the main url is an image, LDM will use that automatically. Also, if you install the id3 'plugin' in the 'extras' directory, it will automatically grab the cover art from mp3 files if this exists.