Major Additions - Links and Downloads Manager

What this is and does

LDM is a general-purpose tool for managing libraries of links and files, and handling uploads and downloads in a flexible way, while tracking and control user access. It has a range of integrated media players and a large library of 'plugin' extras.

Installation and Usage Explained in the on-line Wiki, with a brief explanation in the file instructions.txt in the release zip. The recent revision history is given in the first post of this thread.

Please use carefully and always backup your database before upgrading. Post reports of problems and suggestions for enhancements in this thread.

14.06.09 Version 2.3.0 is now the the officially-supported version. Works with 3.7 and vb 3.8. Please post comments in this thread

22.06.08 Version 2.2.9-post1 - This is the previous supported version. Works fine with all versions of vb 3.6 and vb 3.7. All standard features except profile integration and forum prefix selection work fine with vb 3.8.

[Saint_I_Am]

Originally Posted by AndrewD

The flash sites plugin seems to work ok for me with youtube. Install it (nb, remember to upload the includes/local_links_flashsite.php file as well) and then create an entry with url that points to a youtube video (i used http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dompotjTeIA). The hyperlink on the LDM entry title shows a "Play Me" popup when you hover over it. Clicking the link takes you to the jukebox and it plays ok.

What is the situation your end?

The url of the youtube video I am trying to add for example is http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=??????? I need it so that members in Australia can use that first url format

But if I change the url to http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=??????? it now displays play me when I hover the mouse over it. When I click it, it goes to another page with a table saying vbulletin message, but there is no message in the box. The url of the page for example is

http://mysite.com/local_links.php?ac...nkid=19&page=1

It did the same thing when I uploaded the test videos in the flash sites file. I've looked at permissions and everything looks fine.

Hope you can solve those two issues for me

[MissKalunji]

suggestion

download permissions enabled per entry i don't know if you get what i mean?

[Saint_I_Am]

I am the admin so all permissions should be correct

[Saint_I_Am]

Got the youtube video to play, it was in "LDM FlashSite VideoPlayer " was set to stream instead of url.

Still need help on the file name issue in the post above.

Also in settings it is set to open in new window, yet it doesn't

[abdelghani68]

Originally Posted by AndrewD

Not sure - both of these work fine for me.

are you sure you've got bbcodes enabled on the ldm admin/settings page?

Yes the bbcode is enable. The probleme when the bbcode are display in the previsualisation of the comment is only in one categorie. Not in all categories.

This probleme wasn't with ldm 2.2.9.

thanks

[AndrewD]

Originally Posted by TsirhCitna

The new media vba module drastically slows my page generation.

From: Page generated in 0.35296 seconds with 26 queries [Server Loads: 8.33 8.54 : 10.39]
To: Page generated in 6.83178 seconds with 35 queries [Server Loads: 8.72 8.50 : 10.01]

9 more queries to show 5 links?

I have not started testing/debugging the vba modules, but I am very surprised. Will investigate. Thanks

[AndrewD]

Originally Posted by MissKalunji

Uhm heads up the ajax comment isn't working when i press the comment it still loads the other page...

Just to confirm - you are using the 'inline' rather than the 'drop down' comments and you have checked the 'ajax enabled' option? Drop down is not ajax enabled.

[AndrewD]

Originally Posted by Kosovarap

This is by far the best mod in my opinion. Great stuff.
Installed, looks/works great. I just need to learn a little about it.
So i got a few questions:

- I use the scan/server option, to add Songs for example, but it says:

Skipped (not in mimetype table): mp3 [14]

How do i add them into mimetype table?

I noticed there's Media Players to stream them directly, but i have no idea how to use them, insert them.
How do I use the Media players? Is there a command i should know?


I appreciate the work,
Thank you

The 'mimetype' table is the vbulletin/admincp/attachments/attachments manager. Each filetype that you want LDM to recognise as uploadable/downloladable/playable must be listed in this table, with approriate mimetype information (this is basically a standard convention for telling computers what to do with file contents.) For mp3, the appropriate mimetype info is "Content-type: audio/mpeg"

You can either add the required types manually, or I provide an addin in the release 'extras' directory (add-mimetypes) which automatically adds most of the common types in one go.

The media player will automatically become available via the entry name in the lDM displays once the media file types are defined in that table.

[MissKalunji]

Originally Posted by AndrewD

Just to confirm - you are using the 'inline' rather than the 'drop down' comments and you have checked the 'ajax enabled' option? Drop down is not ajax enabled.

My bad i never noticed i had to set : dropdown_comment_and_rate to 0 for it to work.....It's fine now

everything's working fine so far. Soon going to upgrade on my main board to test it out

oh and hope you won't be mad it's Favorite not favourite *hides face*

[AndrewD]

Originally Posted by yahoooh

AndrewD
i have folder with more than 3000 bmp images
i want to put it in category with description begin like this:

[img]http://www.mysitename.com/folder/1.bmp[/img]

and so on for other files
this will give the picture appearing in the description
i open new category , i run scan admin
and it insert all files but the error is not write description as i want

i use this in:links_scantext

PHP Code:

$file[name] [IMG]http://www.mysite.com/$file[dir]/$file[name][/IMG] 


but $file[name] not show any thing !
i test the default template and also it will not whow the filename
i need to show filename with extension also to make it work

plz help me
thanks

When the template is called, $file contains the following:

["dir"] => file directory
["prefix"]=> filename prefix
["type"]=> filename filetype
["linkname"]=> normally the same as prefix, unless user code attached to the ldm_addlink_getfileinfo hook has modified it

Code attached to the ldm_addlink_getfileinfo hook can also dump other information into that array.

So I think you need $file[prefix].$file[type] rather than $file[name]