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 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

There's a clash of function name with the code in whichever hack provides vcharset.

This will be fixed in the next release of LDM. In the meantime, you can (if you want) edit the code to get rid of this problem.

Replace 'update_settings' by 'update_ldm_settings' five time, as follows:

local_links_actions.php
(line 2508): if (!update_settings($catid, $_REQUEST, $errors)) {
(line 2712): if (!update_settings($catid, $_REQUEST, $errors)) {

local_links_admin.php
(line 1171): update_settings(-1, $_REQUEST, $errors);

includes\local_links_misc.php
(line 399): function update_settings($catid, $settings, &$errors) {
(line 797): ldm_general_failure("update_settings/$name");

[Nam]

Andrew, another suggestion on the next release is that it would be nice to see an index file, or some kind of page that organize the links. You already helped me with organize the links.

Say if I have 20 download link under 1 category, it would be nice to see the short version of link1, link2 instead of the standard view. I don't know, just a suggestion. I'm sure you might think a better format of link listing than me.

[darfil]

Hi,
I have this error messagge:

Parameter upload_dir points to a non-existent or inaccessible directory /uploads (maybe check open_basedir?)

How can I resolve it?

open_basedir is set with "no value" to either master and local.

[AndrewD]

Originally Posted by darfil

Hi,
I have this error messagge:

Parameter upload_dir points to a non-existent or inaccessible directory /uploads (maybe check open_basedir?)

How can I resolve it?

open_basedir is set with "no value" to either master and local.

The directory has to exist and have write-access (on a unix server, this means mode 777). If this doesn't mean anything to you, send me a PM and I can try to help you directly.

[Spinball]

Thanks for the continued support and development on this mod.
Can I please request that for multiple pages of links, we have an alphabetic index at the top?
I.e. 0-9 A B C D E etc each linking to the first entry beginning with that letter?

[calumn]

Hello.

First of all I have to say this is an amazing plugin, but I am having trouble with the permissions.

I want to add a links directory to my forum so that registered users can add their links but guests can only browse and view the directory.

I tried setting this but at first no-one could submit links so I changed the permissions and now the right people can but they can also submit downloads.

How can I make it so that they can only submit links but not downloads?

Thanks
Calum

[AndrewD]

Originally Posted by calumn

Hello.

First of all I have to say this is an amazing plugin, but I am having trouble with the permissions.

I want to add a links directory to my forum so that registered users can add their links but guests can only browse and view the directory.

I tried setting this but at first no-one could submit links so I changed the permissions and now the right people can but they can also submit downloads.

How can I make it so that they can only submit links but not downloads?

Thanks
Calum

You can turn off submission of urls that point to remote downloads using the LDM admin setting *allow_remote_downloads*. This is a general setting, not a per-usergroup permission, so you will block this feature for everyone.

Bear in mind that, for LDM, 'download' = something with a filetype that appears in the vbulletin attachment table. LDM manages the transfer of these downloads to keep the location hidden. If the url ends with a filetype that is not in the table, then LDM doesn't care, because it doesn't handle the transfer - it just triggers a browser redirect to get the url.

[pspcrazy]

Andrewd after a recent server change, it seems that for my staff they can't upload new files. When they add a new entry it auto redirects them back to the home of the downloads and links, and the file is never added. But when an admin adds it, it adds perfectly fine :|. Any ideas?

[AndrewD]

Originally Posted by pspcrazy

Andrewd after a recent server change, it seems that for my staff they can't upload new files. When they add a new entry it auto redirects them back to the home of the downloads and links, and the file is never added. But when an admin adds it, it adds perfectly fine :|. Any ideas?

Not sure, but have you tried turning off the vb admin option, Remove Redirection Message Pages, so that you get to see the status messages?

[pspcrazy]

Well oddly enough now it's giving me this error: Error - The filetype used in the "Rename" field should be the same as the original filetype.

and if the files larger then a few mb it just redirects.

In fact i even upped my post limit and upload limit on php so that's not the issue. Any clues?