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 efil

Hi,
Is there an option for watermark like in YouTube?

Am afraid not. This would require (I think) to be able to process the contents of the file, which is well outside the capabilities of this hack.

[AndrewD]

Originally Posted by Ophelia

Good day Andrew!

Here is what I needed to do today.

I created a new sub-category in LDM and clicked the "Create a sub forum" for that LDM category.

The only problem was that where I wanted it .. it was set up like this...

Forum Category
- Sub Category
-- Sub-Sub Category

I needed the new forum placed inside an existing sub-category in the forums. Is this an option that can be added at some time or would that make it way to confusing?

I think I understand you - if so, the situation is basically as Slave has explained.

Am I right in the following:

You want to 'autocreate' forums/subforums which have the same structure as your categories/subcategories? So if you create this structure in LDM:

category 1
-- subcategory 2
------ subsubcategory 3

you want to create forums as follows:

forum 1 linked to category 1
-- subforum 2 linked to subcategory 2
------ subsubforum 3 linked to subsubcategory 3

Currently, when LDM creates a linked subforum, it turns off the "Show this Forum and Child Forums on the Forum Jump Menu" option for this subforum. So you don't the chance to select it as the parent the next time round (or to use it to give the access permissions for other categories/entries). Actually, this is by chance, not design - I think it's one of the changes in vbulletin that I missed in going from vb3.5 to 3.6.

If you go into vb/admin/forums and switch on "Show this Forum and Child Forums on the Forum Jump Menu" for the new linked forum, you should be ok.

Even though vBulletin will allow this nested structure to exist, because the subforums are 'links', it may be difficult for the user to drill down on the forumdisplay pages to get past the first linked subforum. I played around with the vb forumlistings display options - Depth of Sub-Forums - one can get an indefinite depth of linked subforums to show up in the forumdisplay, but only as a straight list.

I am changing this behaviour in v2.2.8 so that the 'autocreated' forums appear by default on the forumselect menus.

[nanaimobar]

Originally Posted by AndrewD

Just to add a little more info..

1) If you enable links_expiry_days, then LDM handles post-dating as well as expiry, in other words entries will not become visible until the entry's specified creation date and will then disappear/be moved to another category after the specified period.

2) To set this value globally rather than per category, visit the LDM/admin/settings page and change link_expiry_days etc there

3) If you set the value in a category, remember that this value will also apply in its subcategories unless you give a new value there.

Thanks Andrew, Ophelia. I'll update from 2.2.6 to 2.2.7 post2.

Update: Yikes! Incredible. Works like a charm. No problems updating. No problems finding way around Admin sections. Much complexity presented in an easy to follow design, even for a relatively new user such as I. Grrrrrrrrr-r-r-reat.

[wolfe]

problem all my cats are adding this local_links/links/1 in the url and the 1 is the cat id how do i stop this happening i keep getting page not found.

[Gurilla]

I am your 500th install.

Love the mod!

[RedGTiVR6]

Can someone tell me what the difference is between this hack and DownloadsII?

This hack seems to be way more active and more supported, which is a plus.

Are the two even comparable? Am I just overlooking something obvious here?

Thanks in advance!

[AndrewD]

Originally Posted by wolfe

problem all my cats are adding this local_links/links/1 in the url and the 1 is the cat id how do i stop this happening i keep getting page not found.

I think you've enabled the seo_friendly option on the LDM admin pages but you haven't configured your web werver to recognise this.

[Mupetz]

Hello AndrewD,
I cannot use the rewrite rules because of my server.
Instead of that i would like to rename /local_links.php to /subtitles.php. If you allow me to do so, what do i have to modify ?
Thank you very much.

[AndrewD]

Originally Posted by RedGTiVR6

Can someone tell me what the difference is between this hack and DownloadsII?

This hack seems to be way more active and more supported, which is a plus.

Are the two even comparable? Am I just overlooking something obvious here?

Thanks in advance!

Far be it for me to comment...

The two hacks developed along similar lines for quite a while, but there's not been much discussion here about Downloads II for over a year.

I try to give LDM good support, and it's still under development as new needs arise. That's about all I can say.

[AndrewD]

Originally Posted by Mupetz

Hello AndrewD,
I cannot use the rewrite rules because of my server.
Instead of that i would like to rename /local_links.php to /subtitles.php. If you allow me to do so, what do i have to modify ?
Thank you very much.

Indeed, this is straightforward. The instructions are in the wiki, see http://www.eirma.org/wikis/index.php/Hacking_LDM. Let me know if you have problems.