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.

[Slave]

Originally Posted by Freesteyelz

I am testing the LDM on a 3.6.0 RC1 testing board and working on a clean and simple layout. Excuse the default vB template but the attachments below show what I have currently:

I'd be very interested in a template that makes LDM look more like the forums layout ..

[Freesteyelz]

I'm working on several things atm but I'll give it a go.

[Jaxel]

Okay... several questions relating to this mod...

Right now, this mod shows 1 download per row. Is it possible to set this mod up so that it shows 2 downloads per row? Frankly because I think it looks very ugly with all that space in between the thumbnail and the information panel...

As well, is it possible to have it show 3 thumbnails per file instead of only 1?

[AndrewD]

Originally Posted by Jaxel

Right now, this mod shows 1 download per row. Is it possible to set this mod up so that it shows 2 downloads per row? Frankly because I think it looks very ugly with all that space in between the thumbnail and the information panel...

LDM/Admin/Settings or (per category) Edit Category/Control Settings

There are various parameters to control the layout (e.g. links_cols_display), and various styles of linkbit provided (the standard frameset-based, one item per row; a photo based linkbit, up to six per row; etc).

After three years of discussion on this, I've come to the conclusion that there is no single layout that everyone will like! So you can always edit the linkbit templates as well, if you don't like the layout.

Originally Posted by Jaxel

As well, is it possible to have it show 3 thumbnails per file instead of only 1?

No, this is not currently possible

[xadoa]

great job andrewD !!

[xadoa]

one more question, can it scan files from a url? for example, i have some files in another server and want to insert those links into LDM without enter them manually, since lots of those files are located on the other url.

when scanning, just enter e.g. http://www.webfiles.com/filestored/

thanks
XD

[AndrewD]

Originally Posted by xadoa

one more question, can it scan files from a url? for example, i have some files in another server and want to insert those links into LDM without enter them manually, since lots of those files are located on the other url.

when scanning, just enter e.g. http://www.webfiles.com/filestored/

thanks
XD

As far as I can tell, this is not possible: for security reasons, one cannot read directories on remote systems except using ftp, and the ftp protocol is not supported by PHP until release 5.

[xadoa]

Hi AndrewD,

i was trying the limitaccess plugin, somehow it doesn't work, here is what i got:
Fatal error: Call to a member function on a non-object in /data/sv/forums/includes/local_links_include.php(1651) : eval()'d code on line 3

i just imported the plugin and that's what i got when trying to click on the download link. this is a really great feature.

thanks
xd

[AndrewD]

Originally Posted by xadoa

Hi AndrewD,

i was trying the limitaccess plugin, somehow it doesn't work, here is what i got:
Fatal error: Call to a member function on a non-object in /data/sv/forums/includes/local_links_include.php(1651) : eval()'d code on line 3

i just imported the plugin and that's what i got when trying to click on the download link. this is a really great feature.

thanks
xd

Sorry about that - I'd broken this 'extra' in one of my tidying up exercises.

Will fix in the next upload - it's trivial to fix but not just one simple change.

[amnesia623]

IIs there a way to do 2 column catagories, without descriptions? When I set it to 2 columns I htink it still makes space for the descriptions and scrunches the catagory name.

Thanks - great add-on btw