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 benjaminkramer

Hi,
I moved my site to a Dedicated Server, but now I get an error by clicking on Links and Downloads Manager.


How can I activate Links and Downloads Manager?

Thx
Benjamin Kramer

vbulletin/admincp/products and plugins/enable LDM

[benjaminkramer]

It shows that LDM is enabled :-( but it shows the same message that
The VBulletin administrator has disabled the Links and Downloads Manager. Unable to continue.

[AndrewD]

Originally Posted by benjaminkramer

It shows that LDM is enabled :-( but it shows the same message that
The VBulletin administrator has disabled the Links and Downloads Manager. Unable to continue.

Strange. The message is generated when LDM believes that it has not been enabled.

Check that you have uploaded a consistent set of files onto your new server, and reinstall the LDM product .xml file - this will not damage your database.

[benjaminkramer]

It works now...I forgot to aktivate the Plugin System in the config.php

And how does the work go on for a next version of LDM? (new icons...)

I would like to have upload progress status...so that I can see how many percent is the date uploaded and when is it finished....

THx :-)

[AndrewD]

Originally Posted by benjaminkramer

It works now...I forgot to aktivate the Plugin System in the config.php

And how does the work go on for a next version of LDM? (new icons...)

I would like to have upload progress status...so that I can see how many percent is the date uploaded and when is it finished....


THx :-)

Good!

I'm working through the suggestions during this vacation week. I'll see how far I can get. There are quite a few requests

It's not possible to write a reliable upload progress meter in PHP that will work with all the versions of PHP that vBulletin supports. (They only work with very recent versions of PHP 5.x.) As far as I can tell, the only reliable approach is to bolt on a Java-based progress meter. These generally require a licence fee. I've got one to try out, and will let everyone know how well it works, once tested.

[UltraFanatics]

Can this be used as just a links page to swap links?

[AndrewD]

Originally Posted by UltraFanatics

Can this be used as just a links page to swap links?

Yes, that was the original function.

[yahoooh]

another suggestion:
u use iframe in jukebox play
i want this be as part of page not as iframed

this make an easy indexed and back links for each link in LDM

thanks

[AndrewD]

Originally Posted by yahoooh

another suggestion:
u use iframe in jukebox play
i want this be as part of page not as iframed

this make an easy indexed and back links for each link in LDM

thanks

There's actually two forms of the jukbox - one launches in a separate window, the other creates the iframed page, as you say. In the second form, the reason for using the (two) iframes is to ensure that the current media continues to play as the user browses the category.

In the next release, there will be an option to use media players for mp3 and flash that appear inline within the linkbits, so getting rid of the iframes.

[nerofix]

Admin CP --> LDM --> Settings

I'll get this error:

Fatal error: Cannot redeclare update_settings() (previously declared in forum/admincp/vcharset/functions_vcharset.php:16) in forum/includes/local_links_misc.php on line 399