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.

[PitchouneN64ngc]

Problem fixed for me, many thanks, I'll review my French translation of your mod

Just some little uncached templates:
- when you are in local_links_admin.php?set=mirrors, you have an uncached template named "links_admin_onemirror".
- when you looking an entry with template "links_linkbit_mtop" (or local_links_admin.php?set=linkbits), this template is uncached.

[neopet001]

I JUST want to play swf files as it! with original html embed code , I don't want to play flv or use the wimpy wsap ...swf player , just want to play swf directly!
Would you please show me how can I do this ?
Thank you so much!

[itsblack]

Thank you Andrew for the update.
Here is the updated chinese translation. 7 places has been changed. (2 phrases you changed in this edition, and 5 old phrases I modified recently.)

[AndrewD]

Originally Posted by neopet001

I JUST want to play swf files as it! with original html embed code , I don't want to play flv or use the wimpy wsap ...swf player , just want to play swf directly!
Would you please show me how can I do this ?
Thank you so much!

Well, if you install the versin of the code a few posts back (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost....postcount=2560), then there's a 'extra' provided that uses Jeroen van Wijering's general flash media player. This will handle swfs, although it implements the javascript-based player rather than a straight embed.

Just to spell it out
- install ldm 2.2.8 post 1
- go to vbulletin/admin/attachments/filetypes and add a filetype plus corrent mimetype info for swf (Content-type: application/x-shockwave-flash). Alternatively install the LDM add-mimetypes extra which will do the job for you
- read the instructions in the extras/jwplayer directory, upload the required files and install the required plugins

[jGas]

Originally Posted by AndrewD

Three ideas:

- An 'extra' based on the LDM favourites system, so that users' favourites were treated as nominations for 'entry of the month'. Currently, the favourites table does not keep track of the date/time the item was marked as a favourite, so this would have to be modified.

- Ditto, an 'extra' based on the LDM ratings system.

Both approaches would be quite straighttforward to implement, but might have some compromises - not sure.

- A completely new 'entry of the month' system, running in parallel to ratings and favourites.

I'm assuming that, when you say 'which songs posted on a month the users like more' that this feature only needs to work with new entries in the month. Can someone nominate an old entry this month? If so, what do we do at the end of the month - do we discard the old ratings and start again, or is the system supposed to keep track of the historic winners also?

i've noticed that my users do not use the favourite system so much...but they often rate them...so i think that the 'extra' based on the LDM ratings system would be the best solution.

you have reached the point: at the beginning of the month we, the admins, have to look only for the ratings given in the last month (an old entry can't be nominated) but the system i supposed to keep track of the historic winner and also of the rating given the month before.

when you have some time, can you give it a look? thanks

[obmob]

Originally Posted by AndrewD

Sorry about this - you've both been hit by the bug I reported in the starter post to this thread - handling open_basedir.

Attached to this post is, I hope, a fixed version of 2.2.8. At least, I've tried all the possible combinations of operating systems I can get my hands on.

This version has these fixes/extensions:

- Fixed the code for checking directory pathways against server operating system (this is the one that I believe is causing the problems)
- Fixed spurious *rename* error message if the name of an uploaded file contains characters that are invalid on some operating systems (I think this is pspcrazy's problem)
- Modified the number of "My Recent LDM Entries" and "What's Viewed" displayed in user profile to 15 (was 50 and 10 respectively)
- Admin settings/permissions pages highlight all parameters that can be over-ridden within categories, not just those that have been over-ridden
- Trap seriously malformed urls such as http:// with no site (FlexXy's report)
- Tidied up look of Filmstrip extra (arrows) (eFil)
- Added new extra to use Jeroen Wijering's generalised mp3/swf/flv media player

and of course included the new Spanish translation

Please test and report, so that I can clear this problem up for everyone.

As an aside, I'm rather concerned that this problem was not detected during the beta testing. The range of systems that we need to work with (at least three fundamentally different flavours of operating systems for the user, several web servers, at least two web server operating systems, and all the added complexities of utf-8 and standard ascii character sets) makes testing a nightmare. How could we address this?

Well, this time i was able to save my path, now i'll test how it works.

Well, for me, i guess i'll have to make a test installation under my server and test new ldm in there... cause i used to test in my local server using XAMPP, from apache friends.

I guess this one is too friendly. If there is anything you have in mind and i can help, will be glad to.

Thank you for the quick support Andrew!

[AndrewD]

I think there's enough evidence that the main bug in 2.2.8 is fixed, so I've replaced the main release with the bugfix.

Concerning future development, I can realistically do some testing with the following combinations of server/browser/opsys

- Apache 2.2 on Windows server
- Limited Apache/Linux web server (VMware + LAMP)
- Windows for user PC, with limited testing with Ubuntu Linux
- English version of the hack
- Firefox 2 and IE7

I cannot test Mac servers or user systems, nor do much testing of the language translations.

[Nam]

Andrew, when I turned on SEO friendly on Admin, the links are become inaccessible. I guess I have to do some code with .htaccess right? Not sure if I've missed anything. thanks.

[AndrewD]

Originally Posted by Nam

Andrew, when I turned on SEO friendly on Admin, the links are become inaccessible. I guess I have to do some code with .htaccess right? Not sure if I've missed anything. thanks.

Absolutely - as the parameter description says on the LDM admin/settings page:

"If set, LDM creates search engine friendly urls for entries and categories (yoursite/links/catid/linkid, etc). If set, you must configure your web server (Apache) to recognise the urls that LDM creates - see the online LDM manual for details."

When you go to the online manual, there's a menu item labelled Search Engine Optimisation which explains what to do

[Nam]

Thanks, another question, it is possible to turn off the link protections on some files/categories so I can link to remote server without using bandwidth on both? I just bought a new server and don't really care about leeching. Thank you.