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.

[chorton]

<a href="http://www.versionist.com" target="_blank">www.versionist.com</a> ..its a vbadvanced home though

[sunnycher]

thanks chorton!

[smoknz28]

Am I understanding that I need to add a link on my navbar for my users pointing to: http://nameofmysite/forums/local_links.php

Thanks,
Gonzo

[AndrewD]

Originally Posted by smoknz28

Am I understanding that I need to add a link on my navbar for my users pointing to: http://nameofmysite/forums/local_links.php

Thanks,
Gonzo

You need a link somewhere. Most people do this by editing their navbar. Another option is to have a single link on your home page, for example using a vbadvanced module. In either case, the url you have given is correct.

It's explained in the documentation wiki at http://www.eirma.org/wikis/index.php...hin_your_board

[AndrewD]

Originally Posted by Zowners

Any news on my request

I worked on this over the weekend, and turned the current ldm/vba interfaces into .module files. This means that the adjustable parameters can now be set via vbadvanced's admincp page (Edit Modules), rather than by patching the code.

I think everything is working correctly, so perhaps you can give it a try. For your purpose, upload the ldm_new.module into vba, set its title and category (categories), then use vba to copy the module and set a new title/category.

Let me know that this works ok.

[nexus851]

FEATURE REQUEST:

Can you add .FLV / FLA extensions to your medialist?

[Zoon]

Hello,

I have just installed LDM on VBB 3.6.3 on a fresh install. When I click "add category" via the admin page it takes me to an error message saying that the category does not exist.

This is exactly what I did to cause the fault:

- Fresh install of VBB
- Installed vbAdvanced
- Installed LDM
- Went into admin cp and added one top level category which added correctly
- Attempted to add another top level category which did not add correctly

When trying to add the top level category this is the page it goes to:

mydomain.com/local_links.php?action=addcat&catid=-1

And this is the error message:

Category does not exist.

Go Back

I know the category does not exist; its supposed to be adding a new top level category I would appreciate any insight anyone could give.

Should I try a full remove and reinstall and see if that does it? Using the "Kill LDM totally" script mentioned here http://www.eirma.org/wikis/index.php...g_LDM#Removing ?

Thanks in advance!

[Tyegurl]

have a request andrewd can we add a few little link icons?

need .exe .tar .avi .wmv and torrent

i have all but the tar image and i am not sure where to find one, the others i found here on this forum, obviouosly avi/wmv are the same image

can we add them so they show up in the links and download manager?

for everyone who doesn't know

1st is avi/wmv
2nd is exe
3rd is torrent
4th should be tar but i don't have it and i need it

[AndrewD]

Originally Posted by Zoon

Hello,

I have just installed LDM on VBB 3.6.3 on a fresh install. When I click "add category" via the admin page it takes me to an error message saying that the category does not exist.

This is exactly what I did to cause the fault:

- Fresh install of VBB
- Installed vbAdvanced
- Installed LDM
- Went into admin cp and added one top level category which added correctly
- Attempted to add another top level category which did not add correctly

When trying to add the top level category this is the page it goes to:

mydomain.com/local_links.php?action=addcat&catid=-1

And this is the error message:

Category does not exist.

Go Back

I know the category does not exist; its supposed to be adding a new top level category I would appreciate any insight anyone could give.

Should I try a full remove and reinstall and see if that does it? Using the "Kill LDM totally" script mentioned here http://www.eirma.org/wikis/index.php...g_LDM#Removing ?

Thanks in advance!

Thanks for the detailed report, and sorry to learn of your problems. I cannot reproduce this error on my test system - I set up a empty database and followed your path, but everything seemed to work fine.

It really shouldn't be necessary to uninstall and reinstall - this should just work out of the box. Any chance of taking a look at your site? I'd like to get to the bottom of this. Send me a PM.

[AndrewD]

Originally Posted by Tyegurl

have a request andrewd can we add a few little link icons?

need .exe .tar .avi .wmv and torrent

i have all but the tar image and i am not sure where to find one, the others i found here on this forum, obviouosly avi/wmv are the same image

can we add them so they show up in the links and download manager?

for everyone who doesn't know

1st is avi/wmv
2nd is exe
3rd is torrent
4th should be tar but i don't have it and i need it

What you do is put these into the LDM icons directory with filename "filetype.gif" (.png should also work). LDM will automatically pick them up. So you need to create avi.gif, wmv.gif, exe.gif and tar.gif.

On my PC, tar files use the same icon as zips - I suppose that is because winzip has associated the extension with itself. You could just copy zip.gif to tar.gif.

If you like, I'll add your three icons to the main release next time round?