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.

[SherryG]

Originally Posted by AndrewD

I see that you are still using vbadvanced 2.2. I haven't tested with that version for some time, and it seems I've created a problem - sorry - I'll look into it and see how to fix things.

Should I go ahead and update vbadvanced or will that cause more issues?

[AndrewD]

Originally Posted by SherryG

Should I go ahead and update vbadvanced or will that cause more issues?

Let me sort out the problem before I start giving you new problems !

[AndrewD]

Originally Posted by SherryG

Should I go ahead and update vbadvanced or will that cause more issues?

Sherry, indeed, the vbadvanced module format has changed between version 2 and version 3 and the module files I released are for version 3.

Before you attempt to upgrade (indeed if you decide to do so), we really need to get rid of the junk that's been added to your database during the attempt to install the LDM modules. The easiest way, if you are comfortable with this approach, is to run phpmyadmin, go to your vb database, to the adv_modules table and kill the rows that have a blank title - I think you'll find that you've got three of these. I don't think it's possible to tidy up from within vbadvanced itself, so, if you don't want to use this approach, the alternative is that I write a small vb plugin to do the job. Let me know what you want. Sorry for this.

[yahoooh]

any news for any new version that has more features that me and others requist ,
i think version 3 will be more and more than perfect

[pspcrazy]

Anyway to get the downloads to show up on a seperate page? Thanks

[SherryG]

Originally Posted by AndrewD

Sherry, indeed, the vbadvanced module format has changed between version 2 and version 3 and the module files I released are for version 3.

Before you attempt to upgrade (indeed if you decide to do so), we really need to get rid of the junk that's been added to your database during the attempt to install the LDM modules. The easiest way, if you are comfortable with this approach, is to run phpmyadmin, go to your vb database, to the adv_modules table and kill the rows that have a blank title - I think you'll find that you've got three of these. I don't think it's possible to tidy up from within vbadvanced itself, so, if you don't want to use this approach, the alternative is that I write a small vb plugin to do the job. Let me know what you want. Sorry for this.

Hi Andrew,

No need to apologize. I should have specified which version of vbadvanced that I was using. I'll take care of removing these entries from the database and will then upgrade.

THANKS so very much!
Sherry

[AndrewD]

Originally Posted by pspcrazy

Anyway to get the downloads to show up on a seperate page? Thanks

Not sure I understand?

[AndrewD]

Originally Posted by yahoooh

any news for any new version that has more features that me and others requist ,
i think version 3 will be more and more than perfect

I hope it will

I have so little free time at present. Producing a new release is a major piece of work in order to test all the combinations. So I am trying to keep up with the support but have not done any more development since 2.2.8-post 1 was released.

Can you confirm - you want me to extend the synchronisation features as follows:
- one category will synchronise with a directory and all its subdirectories, rather than creating new subcategories for each subdirectory
- different templates for constructing the entry description

I wasn't sure what you meant by 'special template for category "show"' - do you mean you want the 'show what's new/what's hot/etc' commands to be able to use a different template?

[Nam]

Andrew, I found a minor size problem with the flash-based plug-in. The VEOH video player is bigger than YouTube player, is there anyway to specific the size of player for YouTube and VEOH?

I tried to increased the size in plug-manager to make it suit VEOH but then I increased the size of ALL Youtube files. Any guide to overcome this problem would be great!

[yahoooh]

Originally Posted by AndrewD

I hope it will

I have so little free time at present. Producing a new release is a major piece of work in order to test all the combinations. So I am trying to keep up with the support but have not done any more development since 2.2.8-post 1 was released.

Can you confirm - you want me to extend the synchronisation features as follows:
- one category will synchronise with a directory and all its subdirectories, rather than creating new subcategories for each subdirectory
- different templates for constructing the entry description

yes

I wasn't sure what you meant by 'special template for category "show"' - do you mean you want the 'show what's new/what's hot/etc' commands to be able to use a different template?

i mean the links_linkbit ,so i can choose for category any one i want from the types of links_linkbit

also i hope that you make the ldm in folder other than forum ,so we can use subdomain for it
and option to make the navbar begin with ldm , forum home or url home
also adding great future that enable upload files in any vedio type like :wma,3gp,flv and publish it like youtube ,, there will be required some modules installed in server ofcourse but this will be grat feature to add

thank you for your great support , i suppose to make nominate for the best supporter in vbulletin.org and sure i will nominate u

thanks