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.

[DJDrew]

Hello,

Also the "Uploadable filetypes and size limits" says 8mb, and can't seem to be able to change this.

Any idea how anyone?

[AndrewD]

Originally Posted by DJDrew

Does anyone have any idea why I have the "Downloads and links" title with nothing in the table, then I have the table underneath with all the catagories in. Please ask if you don't understand

You mean it looks like the attached? That's how it's designed to look.

The table at the top is used to contain the name of the current category. At the base level, this is considered to be the product itself, i.e. Links and Downloads Manager. After a search, it is the title Search Results. The table then contains the category's full description (which at the base level is empty), and possibly some accompanying information such as the current user's allowances, etc. It is possible to disable display of this table at the base level - it requires a small edit to the links_main template, which I think I have explained earlier in this thread.

The second table lists all the categories which have the current category as their parent.

If you are in a category with entries, there is then another table containing the category's entries.

and so on.

[AndrewD]

Originally Posted by DJDrew

Hello,

Also the "Uploadable filetypes and size limits" says 8mb, and can't seem to be able to change this.

Any idea how anyone?

The upper limit on uploads is defined by two settings - post_maxsize and upload_max_filesize - in the site configuration file (php.ini) on your web server. Within that limit, you can apply smaller limits for non-admins via the vb/admincp/attachments table. These are explained in the wiki, http://www.eirma.org/wikis/index.php/Site_Configuration

[MissKalunji]

hey did you consider my request about the favorite /playlist ?

[AndrewD]

Originally Posted by abdelghani68

is it a bug please?

take a look at the ll_rate_and_comment phrase. It should read

{1} notes, {2} commentaires

I suspect you'll find it does not. Not sure if that was my fault or if you have edited it at some stage.

[AndrewD]

Originally Posted by MissKalunji

hey did you consider my request about the favorite /playlist ?

I can't remember what that was, sorry?

[AndrewD]

Originally Posted by vbboarder

Thanks for the links_imgpage template. I tested Shadowbox with 6 image filetypes - no problems with jpg, png, & gif in IE7 & Firefox 2.

Image Bug: My current image processing library doesn't create thumbnails for bmp, tif, psd images. So I manually created jpg, png, gif thumbnails and added it to my bmp, tif, psd image entries. When I click on the magnifier, the Shadowbox appears but it shows the thumbnail, not the full-size bmp, tif, psd image. I know browsers can show bmp images, but can they show tif & psd images? If not, can you disable the magnifier link for them? If yes, can you enable Shadowbox for them?

links_imgpage Bug: There are some minor bugs with this template:
1. Image is not centered aligned for IE7, both horizontally & vertically.
2. No scrollbars in IE7 so larger images are cut off.
3. Template background/ "canvas" shows for smaller images.

Template Fix: Here's the template that I'm using:
1. Fixes horizontal alignment in IE7; still can't vertically align (even if I use tables).
2. Scrollbars in IE7 shows so larger images can be fully seen.
3. Template background/ "canvas" is minimized for smaller images.

<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" dir="$stylevar[textdirection]" lang="$stylevar[languagecode]">
<head>
<title></title>
$headinclude
</head>
<body>
<div style="width: 100%; height: 100%; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;">
    <img border="0" src="$pic_source" alt="" />
</div>
</body>
</html>

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Image Tip: Currently, the plugin sets the image template width & height to the link_imagemagsize setting. This causes unnecessary scrollbars to appear for images equaling that size, probably because Shadowbox adds some margin or padding.
Solution: to show the full image without unnecessary scrollbars, add about 60 pixels to shadowbox_imgmag_width & shadowbox_imgmag_height in LDM settings. For example, my link_imagemagsize is set to 1024, so I used 1080.

Slow Image Loading: The images load slower than flash videos in Shadowbox. I have images about 1.5 Mb and flash about 15 Mb. Although the flash video is 10x larger, it loads up to 2x faster (~2 secs testing locally, whereas 1.5 Mb images can take up to ~4 secs - IE7 slower than Firefox 2, surprise.... surprise). Is it because the flash video is streamed but the image requires to be fully loaded? If that's the case, can you use the "lowsrc" attribute for <img> to load the thumbnail first?

Missed Click: Ok maybe I'm clumsy with my clicks , but can you make the 'X' button to close Shadowbox larger? When you implement the Next & Previous buttons for the gallery feature, please make them larger also.

Anticipating...: I'm looking forward to the gallery features & 'naked' players/ images that you'll be implementing in the next version of the Shadowbox plugin. I'll be glad to test it for you!

Thanks. The image loading problem is serious, and I have noticed this myself. It's actually server cpu load, doing work which I think is not required with Shadowbox. (It's generating a correctly sized large thumbnail on the fly.) I'm going to rework this before launch.

For the rest, thanks very much for the testing - I'll deal with these in the next release.

[MissKalunji]

Originally Posted by AndrewD

I can't remember what that was, sorry?

it was a way to get your favorite (in my position the whole thin is just mp3) into a jukebox /playlist I don't know if you see whatno mean? Instead of having the table showing the same of the standard lmd you could have it be a flash player using your favorite as a playlist. I seen someone being able to do it with the same player you used. (well he used downloads II) but I'm sure it's the same principle

[AndrewD]

Originally Posted by MissKalunji

it was a way to get your favorite (in my position the whole thin is just mp3) into a jukebox /playlist I don't know if you see whatno mean? Instead of having the table showing the same of the standard lmd you could have it be a flash player using your favorite as a playlist. I seen someone being able to do it with the same player you used. (well he used downloads II) but I'm sure it's the same principle

OK, I understand.

[MissKalunji]

do you think it would be possible as an addons? or something like that? i know it's not complicated but i tried lol and it didn't work out so hopefully the smarter one will be able to