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.

[mri_mohammad]

no i don't want to someone design my website but i want to know how they do that?

and i have problem
you can see it at below picture

[obmob]

Originally Posted by mri_mohammad

hi this is great hack but some body do something like that
see screenshot attached
how i can do something like that?

Originally Posted by mri_mohammad

thanks for answer lol

Well, you need to edit those linkbit templates, depending on the ones you have set on your configuration.

The first pic looks interesting

[AndrewD]

Originally Posted by mri_mohammad

no i don't want to someone design my website but i want to know how they do that?

and i have problem
you can see it at below picture

OK, it's about the extra urls associated with entries. I imagine that this is something that they have added themselves. But the new release of LDM, version 2.2.9, adds this facility as a standard feature. Possibly, you will staill have to do some template modifactions.

[mri_mohammad]

ok thank you i will waiting for it but how about my problem can you help me?

[AndrewD]

Originally Posted by mri_mohammad

how about my problem can you help me?

Sorry, I missed that - was too quick with the reply.

Your attachment shows that broken thumbnail images associated with these entries. There are a number of possible reasons and I can't say which is correct without taking a look at your site. If you would like me to do this, send me a PM with site details and a username which has full access to the vbulletin admincp.

[RikiB]

I noticed the byte limit but is there a way to limit how many times each file is downloaded? I just want users to be able to download certain files a maximum of 3 times. There are many files at different sizes so limited based off bytes is not the best option for me.

Thanks!!

[AndrewD]

Originally Posted by RikiB

I noticed the byte limit but is there a way to limit how many times each file is downloaded? I just want users to be able to download certain files a maximum of 3 times. There are many files at different sizes so limited based off bytes is not the best option for me.

Thanks!!

This is easy to add as a plugin, althought it is not currently available. I will write it for you if you want. Let me know.

Only point to consider - users' hits are stored in the 'hits' table. Popular sites can attract many hits, so this table can become quite large. Consequently, LDM will normally 'prune' the table to get rid of old hits. It is not possible to keep track of individual hits that are older than the 'prune' period, so if you really want to limit your users to 3 hits per file *forever* then you have to keep the hits table populated forever.

[RikiB]

Ahh I see your point.
My situation is I give a particular user 5 days to download particular files after they paid using the built in payment subscription. During that 5 days I would just like them to be able to download each file 3 times or so. After the 5 days the data can be pruned no problem.
If you could write this I would be very greatful, and thank you for such an amazing plugin and support!

[AndrewD]

Originally Posted by RikiB

Ahh I see your point.
My situation is I give a particular user 5 days to download particular files after they paid using the built in payment subscription. During that 5 days I would just like them to be able to download each file 3 times or so. After the 5 days the data can be pruned no problem.
If you could write this I would be very greatful, and thank you for such an amazing plugin and support!

I realise that I am losing my mind. I have already written this facility for someone else and it is available as a vb plugin in the 'extras' directory -> release/extras/limit-useraccess/limitaccess-byhits-plugin.xml. Just install via the vb admincp/plugins page.

Once installed, you get another group of options on the ldm admin/settings and edit category/control pages. You can apply the limits to one or several usergroups, and you can apply different controls in different ldm categories.

Let me know if this serves your requirement.

[RikiB]

nice! Looks like it will work perfectly, Thanks!