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.

[obmob]

About templates, is it possible to add more linkbits?

I modified the short and the normal linkbit, but i would like to use your current short also.

Greetings

[AndrewD]

Originally Posted by obmob

About templates, is it possible to add more linkbits?

I modified the short and the normal linkbit, but i would like to use your current short also.

Greetings

This is possible but requires changes to the code. It is something that I have intended to make easily available via the LDM/admin pages at some stage, but never quite finished.

Basically, you do the following:

- create a new template within your vbulletin/admincp, for example called links_mylinkbit
- edit includes/local_links_admininclude.php
- find a group of lines (around line 550) which look like this:

PHP Code:

require_admin_row($seq++, 'links_linkbit', serialize(array("name"=>"Modern", "collapse"=>"links_linkbit_short", "defcol"=>1, "maxcol"=>1, "altbit"=>0)), 'define_linkbit', 1); 


- add a new line with slightly changed values, e.g.

PHP Code:

require_admin_row($seq++, 'links_mylinkbit', serialize(array("name"=>"My Linkbit", "collapse"=>"links_linkbit_short", "defcol"=>1, "maxcol"=>1, "altbit"=>0)), 'define_linkbit', 1); 


- if you take a look at the comments in the code, you can probably work out what the other parameters do.

- re-install the LDM product installer.
- the new template will then be available in the same way as other LDM linkbits

OK?

[yahoooh]

bug :
when synchronise category with folder and this folder contain subfolders , it will not add any entries from subfolders even i make the sync_depth = 2 or 3 or 100

i choose sync_populate_categories "no"

sync_populate_entries "yes"

it is only add entries from the folder but not subfolders under it

[IrPr]

Originally Posted by obmob

About templates, is it possible to add more linkbits?

I modified the short and the normal linkbit, but i would like to use your current short also.

Greetings

Or just this simple query:
[SQL]INSERT INTO `FORUM`.`LOCAL_linksadmin` (`settingname`, `setting`, `sequence`, `rowtype`, `rowtitle`, `canoverride`, `catid`) VALUES ('links_linkbit_movie', 'a:4:{s:4:"name";s:5:"Movie";s:6:"defcol";i:1;s:6: "maxcol";i:4;s:6:"subbit";s:15:"links_subcatbit";} ', 50011, 'define_linkbit', '', 1, -1);
[/SQL]

Where FORUM is your forum table and LOCAL_ is your LDM table prefix
This query adds Movie template_linkbit which points to links_linkbit_movie template,
If you want to change your template_linkbit name you have to change 5 ( exact before :"Movie" ) to your template_linkbit display name's length

Edit: You have to add linksbit_linkbit_movie template manually
Please BACKUP your linksadmin table before executing this query or test on your local/test forum

[yahoooh]

also another bug :
duplicate entries when use manual synchronise , this occure sometimes !

[AndrewD]

Originally Posted by yahoooh

bug :
when synchronise category with folder and this folder contain subfolders , it will not add any entries from subfolders even i make the sync_depth = 2 or 3 or 100

i choose sync_populate_categories "no"

sync_populate_entries "yes"

it is only add entries from the folder but not subfolders under it

I suppose this is a question of definition. It's doing what you told it to do. If sync_populate_categories is set to no, the synchronisation code resyncs the current directory/category but does not track through subdirectories/subcategories. If you have manually created synced subcategories (or created them automatically, then switch off sync_populate_categories), these are resynced when someone visits them.

[AndrewD]

Originally Posted by IrPr

Or just this simple query:
[SQL]INSERT INTO `FORUM`.`LOCAL_linksadmin` (`settingname`, `setting`, `sequence`, `rowtype`, `rowtitle`, `canoverride`, `catid`) VALUES ('links_linkbit_movie', 'a:4:{s:4:"name";s:5:"Movie";s:6:"defcol";i:1;s:6: "maxcol";i:4;s:6:"subbit";s:15:"links_subcatbit";} ', 50011, 'define_linkbit', '', 1, -1);
[/SQL]

Where FORUM is your forum table and LOCAL_ is your LDM table prefix
This query adds Movie template_linkbit which points to links_linkbit_movie template,
If you want to change your template_linkbit name you have to change 5 ( exact before :"Movie" ) to your template_linkbit display name's length

Edit: You have to add linksbit_linkbit_movie template manually
Please BACKUP your linksadmin table before executing this query or test on your local/test forum

Be careful - patching the admin table will work but it's not guaranteed to continue to work following an upgrade.

[AndrewD]

Originally Posted by yahoooh

also another bug :
duplicate entries when use manual synchronise , this occure sometimes !

I've never seen this. I'll be keen to see a reproducible case, if possible.

[yahoooh]

Originally Posted by AndrewD

I suppose this is a question of definition. It's doing what you told it to do. If sync_populate_categories is set to no, the synchronisation code resyncs the current directory/category but does not track through subdirectories/subcategories. If you have manually created synced subcategories (or created them automatically, then switch off sync_populate_categories), these are resynced when someone visits them.

i want to explain more :

i have one category and i just need to enter all files that in a folder and about 100 subfolders in the same category , i did not need to make subcategory for each subfolder

so in this case it is not work

about duplicate content
when i wrote the folder as /folder/
it will not duplicate
but when i write /folder without training slash
it give me duplicate entries

also the template for description of the entries is not work to give automatic description for entries !


suggestion:
1.multiple templates for choose of them , for description of entries
2.specific template for specific category "show"

[AndrewD]

Originally Posted by yahoooh

i want to explain more :

i have one category and i just need to enter all files that in a folder and about 100 subfolders in the same category , i did not need to make subcategory for each subfolder

so in this case it is not work

about duplicate content
when i wrote the folder as /folder/
it will not duplicate
but when i write /folder without training slash
it give me duplicate entries

also the template for description of the entries is not work to give automatic description for entries !


suggestion:
1.multiple templates for choose of them , for description of entries
2.specific template for specific category "show"

OK, these are extensions to the current functionality. I'll look into how they might be implemented and let you know.