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 hydn

I want to upgrade from 2.2.7.

I'm worried about loosing template changes. Will upgrading overwrite all existing tables?

Thanks

Upgrading does not delete your template modifications. I can't recall if there are any important template changes between LDM 2.2.7 and 2.2.8 - if so and you have modified any of these, you may need to check on the vb admincp for suggested template reversions.

Always a good idea to take a backup before upgrades - you can also download your templates while you are at it.

[hydn]

Thanks. Upgraded.

I have a weird problem.

I have a web farm (2 IIS servers) and the rewrite to SEO links work fine on one sever and not on the other. I know there must be something differn't but what.

Here's he code on both servers:

'^local_links\.php$' => 'downloads.html',
'^local_links\.php?' => 'downloads.html',
'^downloads\.php$' => 'downloads.html',
'^downloads\.php?' => 'downloads.html',

On one server this works great on the other no matter what I click it keeps returning to downloads.html main page.

Any ideas?

[Christian96]

Originally Posted by AndrewD

I only wrote this patch recently. It uses the global_setup_complete hook in vbulletin and works the same way as the plugin that the vbulletin people use themselves for their blog software. I've no idea whether that hook was already available in vbulletin 3.6.5, or if the functions in that version of vbulletin are compatible.

Updating to 3.6.8L2 solved the problem with the search. So everything is working allright now.

Thanks !
Christian

[Ophelia]

Andrew,
It seems that our hits are being deleted on their own. Is this something you added? We need to keep at least the last 30 days, but when I look at today, it's only keeping back to the 26th of February.

[AndrewD]

Originally Posted by Ophelia

Andrew,
It seems that our hits are being deleted on their own. Is this something you added? We need to keep at least the last 30 days, but when I look at today, it's only keeping back to the 26th of February.

Take a look on the ldm admin/settings. There's a prune_downloadtable setting which sets the number of dayshits are stored, and defaults to forever. If it's not workng correctly, let me know.

[Magnum164]

Originally Posted by AndrewD

There are several levels of (optional) integration with your forums.

- there is the facility to auto-announce new entries as threads in your forum
- there is an 'extra' that will include a list of new/hot/random entries in your forum displays
and so on, and so on.

You don't need to do anything with vblinks, but I have not spent time writing a converter

Rats.. Waiting for the 3.7 release

[Deadly Assassin]

Installed this and it works a treat.

Thanks.

Just one thing. The posting block for putting the description in is overhanging the side of the board.

If possible, i would like to make the left hand table smaller, as there is loads of space.

I have had to disable my smilies to stop it overhanging.

apart from that, brilliant hack mate.

:up:

[AndrewD]

Originally Posted by Deadly Assassin

Installed this and it works a treat.

Thanks.

Just one thing. The posting block for putting the description in is overhanging the side of the board.

If possible, i would like to make the left hand table smaller, as there is loads of space.

I have had to disable my smilies to stop it overhanging.

apart from that, brilliant hack mate.

:up:

Thanks.

The size of the description box is taken from the formwidth_usercp and messagebox_usercp style variables, which are set on vb/admin/styles/main style vars.

[maroceve]

hmm ..tried to delete an entry : running latest versoin on 3.7.

Database error in vBulletin 3.7.0 Beta 6:

Invalid SQL:

SELECT entityid, entityvalue
FROM local_linksentities
WHERE entitytype IN (ENTITY_TYPE_UPLOAD,ENTITY_TYPE_MEDIAUPLOAD,ENTITY _TYPE_IMAGEUPLOAD)
AND linkid IN (590);

MySQL Error : Unknown column 'ENTITY_TYPE_UPLOAD' in 'where clause'
Error Number : 1054
Date : Sunday, March 16th 2008 @ 06:48:44 PM
Script : http://www.maroceve.com/forums/local_links_actions.php
Referrer : http://www.maroceve.com/forums/local...atid=12&page=1
IP Address : 196.217.203.29
Username : Ez
Classname : vb_database
MySQL Version : 4.1.22-standard

[AndrewD]

Originally Posted by maroceve

hmm ..tried to delete an entry : running latest versoin on 3.7.

Database error in vBulletin 3.7.0 Beta 6:

Invalid SQL:

SELECT entityid, entityvalue
FROM local_linksentities
WHERE entitytype IN (ENTITY_TYPE_UPLOAD,ENTITY_TYPE_MEDIAUPLOAD,ENTITY _TYPE_IMAGEUPLOAD)
AND linkid IN (590);

MySQL Error : Unknown column 'ENTITY_TYPE_UPLOAD' in 'where clause'
Error Number : 1054
Date : Sunday, March 16th 2008 @ 06:48:44 PM
Script : http://www.maroceve.com/forums/local_links_actions.php
Referrer : http://www.maroceve.com/forums/local...atid=12&page=1
IP Address : 196.217.203.29
Username : Ez
Classname : vb_database
MySQL Version : 4.1.22-standard

Check that you have correctly uploaded all the files for the latest version, in particular *includes/local_links_init.php* file.